Understanding Our Skills, Work Values and Passions

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Del curso dictado por University System of Georgia

Career Options: Exploring a New Career

12 calificaciones

University System of Georgia

Career Options: Exploring a New Career

12 calificaciones

This course is for you if you are interested in researching a new career and acquiring the skills necessary to succeed in it. You will be asked to reflect on your experiences and critically evaluate what you currently know, what you need to acquire, and how to go about getting it. You will then identify groups and individuals that can serve and support you in exploring a new career. During this course, you will identify the elements of a well-structured career plan and evaluate career options by individual fit to determine how to effectively engage your network in your career journey. You will design a tactical career plan and identify pitfalls in behavior, communication and appearance that can derail a new career. You will also develop a targeted cover letter and resume using a proven business format. Your experiential learning can also be a valuable asset, linking your personal experiences with your chosen career. We will help you define your career objective statement and align this with your strengths and goals. Finally, you will be challenged to research and identify your personal values inventory, and evaluate how to best navigate the current job market by using an innovative approach called career rockclimbing.

De la lección

RightPathing Your Future: The Importance of Whole-Life Career Planning

In this module, you will learn how to think about career planning as both a lifelong and "whole-life" activity. You will learn about whole-life career planning by watching Rachel, a 20-year old college student, discover her unique talents and interests using the RightPathing Your Future approach. At the end of this module, you will learn the importance of assessing and understanding your hard-wired behaviors, work values, skills and passions, and then aligning them with both your personal and professional goals.

Introduction to RightPathing Your Future3:26

What Is RightPathing Your Future?2:13

Understanding Our Behaviors: The X-Ray6:36

Understanding Our Behaviors: The MRI5:30

Understanding Our Skills, Work Values and Passions4:47

Understanding and Articulating Our Life Purpose6:20

An Expert's Advice on Achieving Career Success2:52

Conoce a los instructores

Elke M Leeds, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President of Technology Enhanced Learning
Academic Affairs
Ana T. Baida, Ed.D.
Executive Director
Department of Career Planning and Development
Wes Rhea, J.D.
Senior Lecturer
Information Systems
Dan Stotz
Director, Online Executive Education
Michael J. Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University

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[SOUND] Jerry, Rachel also completed the skills of work values and

passions assessments too.

What did you learn about Rachel when you reviewed those reports?

Or what advice did you have for her after you reviewed those reports?

>> Again, the beauty of assessment.

Versus my opinion, versus her opinion.

It gives us a third party tool where she has worked through this, and

she had to prioritize these passions.

Actually, the inventory, or the assessment,

is really an interest inventory, but we call it passion.

And the reason we do is we say, passions are interests that you're going to act on.

We can have a lot of interests.

I know you do, I do, but we can't act on all of them.

And so that can become a source of frustration.

So a powerful thing is to identify them, and

then prioritize how are we going to work on them.

How did they come into play?

Best example, and you've probably experienced this.

Some of my passions have to be relegated to hobbies.

Okay? I can't do it for a living.

I'd love to snorkel for a living.

>> [LAUGH] >> And I'd like to wine collect for

a living, but I can't.

So those are hobbies, okay?

So it helps you prioritize.

With Rachel, as we're showing on the screen with Rachel.

You can see her highest scores were in the areas of artistic,

adventuring, and operating, okay?

Now, the artistic is kind of at odds with healthcare.

So even though it's important to her.

That's going to have to be a decision.

And seeing that her life purpose, which we'll come back to later.

But see her life purpose is more about caring than about the art.

So that gives us confidence to say to her.

How could we deal with your artistic needs, interests, possibly in a hobby?

Good example, her playing the piano again.

Okay, so can that satisfy that passion?

We know it's high, because this is the highest one.

We measured it, and then the adventuring.

That's variety.

So her work will give her a lot of variety.

But even that one we probably are going to need a relegate to hobbies.

And a good example was she has a passion we'll see later on.

She has an interest in travel very high.

So, I would say we could use her music, art,

travel to satisfy that artistic adventuring.

But then use the following operating social investigating and

organizing which plays right into the healthcare.

So we've got to deal with their passions but

yet at the same instance you got to make a living.

So how do we do that and kind of satisfy all of our needs.

So that's a key one for that and then with the skills We looked at the skills.

And you can see we showed the holland code, which looks at the various areas,

organizing, influencing, social the one that we just talked about.

And so then we move from passions to her skills.

The artistic is still right up there at the top.

So again, if we don't deal with that passion and now her skills.

Things she's worked on, this obviously comes from her piano playing.

We're missing a big part of her, but it might not be career.

Literally, unless she's going to make a living as a pianist.

We've gotta deal with that.

So we'll probably look at that for Hove.

Now in her skill ranking, what came up second and

third was her investigating and organizing.

So see how that plays right into the healthcare, investigating, listening,

looking at symptoms, connecting the dots, watching for counter interaction of meds.

And then, the documentation, or organizing skills keep in good reference.

So, do you see how we're starting to get a real picture?

That's why I like that puzzle.

So as we answer these, those puzzle pieces are coming together.

To help us get a whole life fit, or help Rachel get a whole life fit.

So that's really examples of why we use the assessments and the power of them.

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