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UNIV 1100 Chapter Seven: Getting Career Ready - Coggle Diagram
UNIV 1100 Chapter Seven: Getting Career Ready
Career Readiness Competencies
Career Management: Identify and articulate your skills, strengths, knowledge, and experiences.
Critical Thinking: Exercise sound reasoning to analyze issues, make decisions, and overcome problems/
Information Technology Application: Select and use appropriate technology to accomplish a given task. Apply computing skills to solve problems.
Leadership: Leverage the strengths of others to achieve common goals, and use interpersonal skills to coach and develop others.
Oral/Written Communication: Articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively to a variety of individuals. This includes public speaking, expressing ideas to others, and writing/editing emails, letters, and technical reports.
Professionalism Work Ethic: Demonstrate accountability and effective work habits (e.g., punctuality, time management) and understand the importance of a professional work image.
Teamwork/Collaboration: Build collaborative relationships with colleagues and customers representing diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, religions, lifestyles, and viewpoints.
Global Perspective: Values, respects, and learns from diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and religions.
Knowing Yourself and Assessing Your Workplace Values
The basis of successful career management is knowing yourself.
Satisfying careers are generally those compatible with your values, interests, personality type, and skills.
The Office of Career Services and Outreach at North Carolina Central University offers a variety of in-depth self-assessments to help you learn more about yourself.
Your values indicate what you consider are important, worthy, or meaningful.
Values can often be unidentified, but they are powerful forces that guide and influence your decisions throughout your life.
Assessing Your Interests and Personality Type
Interests are the activities you like to engage in and the topics and concerns that capture your attention.
Values tend to be more stable, whereas interests can change more frequently.
Dr, John Holland created the Holland Codes, which is a system to classify jobs into six personality types based on interest clusters or work personality environments.
According to Dr. Holland's theory, people are more satisfied and perform better in a career or major that fits their personality type.
The U.S. Department of Labor has adopted Holland's model for categorizing jobs relative to the six occupational personality types.
Assessing Your Skills
Skills are the abilities you have that can be applied immediately in specific tasks or functions.
Transferable skills can be transferred from one job to another--you can adapt them and use them in many other types of work with little effort on your part.
Identifying your skills and communicating them well is essential to creating a strong resume, networking, having a successful job interview, and landing a job.
Work-specific skills are abilities that you have learned specifically for the job, or perhaps in on-the-job training.
Self-management skills relate to how you manage yourself, howe well you perform, and your temperament.
