What is a career and what does it include
- Career is a lifelong path of learning and includes skill building, education, paid work, volunteering, and other professional development
is career progression always linear
no
Career development
- a lifelong process of blending and managing paid and unpaid activities: education, work, volunteerism and leisure time.
- entails determining skills, beliefs, values, and competencies, and connecting those with market needs.
- involves understanding options, navigating with purpose, and making informed choices.
- is dynamic, evolving, and requires continuous adaptation and resilience through multiple transitions.
- means making the most of talent and potential.
career development model
- create your future
a. personal career branding
b. job search documents
c. social and online networking
d. work experience - know your value
a. value
b. interests
c. strengths
d. personality - plan your actions
a. decision making goal setting
b. prioritizing tasks
c. reality testing - explore your options
a. industry trends
b. career options
c. educational paths
Career success begins with Self-Awareness
Career success begins with?
Self-Awareness
4 factors of self-awareness
- Personality
- Values and motivators
- Skills
- Interests
Personality type focuses Personality
Source of energy
o Extraversion or Introversion
Way of acquiring information
o Sensing
Facts
What you know
Prioritize clarity
o or iNtuition
ideas
the unknown
anticipate what is not obvious
Ways of making decisions
o Thinking
Objective logic
Analytical and detached approach
o or Feeling
values
emotionally invested decision making
Preferred ways of interaction with the environment
o Judging
Orderly
Likes to have control through organization
o or perceiving
flexible
spontaneous
prefer to adapt
go with the flow
Interests types
- organizer (conventional)
a. conventional types prefer to deal with data and things
i. ex: accountant - Persuader (Enterprising)
a. Enterprising types prefer to deal with data and people
i. Ex: law, business, finance - Helper (Social)
a. Prefer to deal with people
i. Ex: education, nursing, social work - Creator (Artistic)
a. Artistic types prefer to deal with ideas and people
i. Ex: art, music - Thinker (Investigative)
a. Investigative types prefer to deal with things and ideas - Do-er (Realistic)
a. Realistic types prefer to deal with things
i. Ex: agriculture, vets
Personalities types on teams
- For Extroverts - action, talking, group work
- For Introverts - prefer written communication, one-on-ones
- For Sensing-types - practical applications, specific examples
- For iNtuition-types - consider future possibilities, broad issues
- For Thinking-types - want logic and business-like approach
- For Feeling-types - prefer to be compassionate and harmonious
- For Judging-types - want schedules and deadlines
- For Perceiving-types - resist too much organization, open to change.
Values/ Motivators
- Values are individual beliefs that motivate people to act one way or another.
- Values are one of the strongest predictors of career satisfaction.
- Since values root us back to our core beliefs and strengths, they are foundational in setting parameters for personal satisfaction and accomplishment.
examples of values
o Advancement
o Adventure
o Affiliation
o Community
o Continuous Learning
o Creativity
o Excitement
o Fast Pace
o Flexibility
Skills
- Skills needed to participate and thrive in learning, work and life.
- Include skills that are foundational for building other skills and knowledge and important for effective social interaction.
- The model responds to the needs of the current and future labour market.
example of skills
o Communication
o Creativity and innovation
o Problem solving
o Reading
career resilience
- A lifelong skill that gives you the strength to adapt to challenges throughout your professional journey.
the evolving work world
- Past – Many jobs that existed 10 years ago no longer exist or are disappearing.
- Present – There are jobs that weren’t around (or weren’t as widely known) about 10 years ago but are here today.
- Future - Many of the jobs that today’s students will be doing 10 years from now haven’t even been invented yet!
How to build career residence ***
- Redefine your definition of success and reclaim your timeline
- Disprove the ‘domino effect’
- Identify and utilize the power of transferrable skills
transferable skills
- An ability or expertise which may be used in a variety of roles or occupations.
- Skills developed that can be transferred from one job/role to another.
- Relevant to all professions and facets of life.
- Examples – communication, teamwork, problem-solving, etc.
