Creating career success by fabricant miller chapter02

~Confucius Copyright 2014 Cengage Learning.. What have you done?Think about the skills you have developed while involved in each of the various types of work experience… Or the skills

Chapter 2:

Skills

Let’s Discuss

Ability will never catch up with the

demand for it.

~Confucius

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iQoncept

What have you done?

Think about the skills you have

developed while involved in each

of the various types of work

experience…

Or the skills you could develop…

•F ull-tim

e

•P art

-time

•T em

po rar

y

Employment

•In terns

hip s

•E xterns

hip s

•C oo

perativ

e le

arning

Experiential

Learning

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Types of work experience

Other ways to develop skills

Courses Activities

Volunteer Hobbies

Golden Pixels LLC

chrisbrignell

iQoncept

Kurhan

Skills for career success

Your skill set

Transferable

Self-management

Career specific

What exactly are Transferable Skills?

software

What is meant by Self-management Skills?

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Career specific

Andresr

Maridav

Inga Ivanova

dean bertoncelj

The 3 R’s – as important as ever

Reading

Writing Arithmetic

The 4-C’s

Rafal Olechowski

Kheng Guan Toh

Skills Gap

Skills

needed

for task

Your skills

Skills gap

How Important are Transferable Skills?

Assess your Skills

Academic and Work Experience

Team and Leadership Roles

Your Motivated Skills

Digital Literacy

Information Media Technology

Access and evaluate

information while critically

and competently

evaluating content

Use and manage information creatively and understand legal and

ethical issues of using information

Apply technology effectively, including current products, to create, research, evaluate and

communicate information

nmedia

Improving technology skills

Build basic skills

Expand your tools

Add advanced skills

Research

your

resources

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Work with Awareness

Developing a Growth Mindset

Characteristics of growth mindset

• Can develop qualities through effort and work

• Seen as starting point for something more

Reframe difficult scenarios

• View as opportunities for growth

• Avoid feeling like failure

• Learn from experiences

Always will be required to learn

• Chance to build skills

• Develop new strengths

Evidence of Skills

•A sse

ss y our ski lls

•U nde rst and s kill

s ne ede

d in pote

ntial car

ee rs

•R eco gn ize gap

s t hen pl

an to deve

lo

p areas

Recognize

needed skills

Recognize

needed skills

•T urn re gu lar jo

b in to car ee r-b uildi

ng e xpe rie nce

•A

sk t

o t ake

on add

ed t asks

to deve

lo

p new areas

•S hape y

our ow

n exp eri enc

es to bui

ld s kill s

Choose

skill-building

experiences

Choose

skill-building

experiences

•C rea

te m eani

ngfu

l r ela tions

hip

s a

t w ork an

d

scho ol

•F ind a m en

to

r w

ho c

an g uide yo

u

Develop

advocates for

your skills

Develop

advocates for

your skills

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Final Thoughts

• Have you identified the skills that you want to use in your career?

• Have you identified any skills that you want to

use in your career but do not currently

possess?