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2Skills and Interests – Your Career Assets
Seminar
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Agenda
1) At look at Unit 3 Project2) Your Values, Interests and Personality3) Soft Skills and Adaptive Skills4) Hard Skills and Transferable Skills5) Job Specific Skills 6) Brand Identity7) Skills Gap8) Questions
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Unit 3 Project
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Unit 3 Project
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2-5 Your Values, Interests, and Personality
• Values and skills should align with your career goals and mission
• Values are what you feel strongly about
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What do you value?
• Workplace Values– Values that are upheld and honored
in the workplace•Values determine your choices, attitude
and actions•Make sure you are clear about
your values
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Your Unique Personality
• Your personality needs to fit with your career and workplace
•Personality Assessment– Categorizes your personality traits
to determine if your personal attributes are a good fit in a particular work environment
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Self-Check
How can being more aware of your personality and values help you in your career, or when job hunting?
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What are three things you learned about yourself from the assessments on personality or on values?
Self-Check
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2-10 Soft Skills and Adaptive Skills
• Skills Vocabulary: – Identifying your skills in order to market and sell
yourself to potential employers, or to your current employer if you want to be considered for advancement
• Soft Skills: – All of the skills, excluding technical expertise,
that you need to do a job
• Adaptive Skills: – Soft skills, related to your work style, and help
you function as a good employee on a day-to-day basis
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2-11 Hard Skills and Transferable Skills
• Hard Skills– The technical expertise you need to do a
job well gained through education and experience
• Transferable Skills– Skills you learn from your experiences
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Job-Specific Skills
• Job-Specific Skills– Skills that require special
training, experience, education, and certification
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Achievements
•Achievement– An accomplishment or success
that you attain
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Your Brand Identity
•Brand Identity– Your personal marketing image
that highlights your worth and value to employers
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Identify Your Skills Gap
•Skills Gap– The skills you must acquire in
order to obtain your ideal job
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Your Degree
•Match Your Degree to Goals and Responsibilities– Your completed degree shows that
you have the ability to achieve a long-term goal
– A degree can make you valuable for careers you have not even considered.
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Summary
• Organizing and outlining your skills, values, accomplishments makes it easier to create your resume, cover letter, and portfolio
• Increased awareness of what careers you should considered based on your interests, values, and skills
• Continue to expand your career possibilities as you learn new skills
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Skill / Terms1) Describe how being more aware
of your personality, values, and interests assists you in finding a great career fit.
2) Explain the difference between hard and soft skills, and provide two examples of each term.
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Skill / Terms
1)Explain transferable skills and provide two examples.
2)Define skill gap. Explain how you might close this gap.
3)Name two different careers (job titles/positions) you could consider with your degree.
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