Career Planning Skills

--Thinking about yourself IV

--Skills profile Demi Qiu

Head of Career Development Office

Nottingham Advantage Award

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Summarizing Your Self-Discovery

Interests Profile

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Skills Profile

Personality Profile

Value Profile

Learning Outcomes

• Types of skills

• Explore your skills

• Skills—Job

Skill

• Skills: A skill is something you can do, that you do fairly well.

• List any “Skills” in 5 minutes…

• Discuss it in peers--How many skills do you have?

How many skills do you have? • “Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness,

yet perhaps few know their own strength. --Jonathan Swift

A person has on the average of 500 skills, many of them are so much a part of our nature that we are hardly aware of them. Is it necessary to indicate all these skills to employers?

Relevant！！！！

Type of Skills

• Knowledge Skills

• Self-management Skills

• Transferable Skills / Soft skills

Sidney Fine & Richard Bolles

Knowledge Skills

• Noun

• Example: Administration and management

Biology

Building and Construction

Customers and Personal services

Foreign Language

Sales and Marketing

• Cannot be transferred, hard skills

O*NET OnLine • Useful Links

http://www.onetonline.org/find/descriptor/browse/Knowledge/

• Research

Industry

Company type

Job Position Type

Work Place

Qualification/Certificate

Knowledge skills VS. Major

Major is always considered to be related to work directly • “My major isn’t related to any career”

• “I don’t want the career that my major has prepared me for”

• “Employers may only recruited students with the major related to job”

• “I find it is not so competitive compared with the candidates with that major”

Where you can obtain knowledge skills?

• Company website—Information collection and research skills

• Professional bodies

• Industry report

• Employer presentations(4) Employer literature—communication skills

• Sector specific job fair(3) —communication skills

• Internship Fair(1) —communication skills

• Career Advice Service(2)

• Nottingham Advantage Award programme(19)

• Application workshop

• Company visit programme

• Mentoring programme(45)

Reedling list:

http://www.douban.com/group/topic/53620648/

http://www.10minuteswith.com/

Questions to Knowledge skills

• About the Role

• Examples of Projects

• The Most Fun Part

• The Challenges

• The Skills Needed

• How to Start a Career in ***

• The Career Path

• How to Stand Out from the Crowd

Summary of knowledge skills

• Expressed by Noun

• Hard skills, cannot be transferred

• Knowledge skills is not obtained only from the academic studies

• Knowledge skills can be obtained in many ways

Self– Management Skills

• Definition: Self-management skills are those abilities that allow an employee to feel more productive when doing daily routine regardless of the working environment.

• Always call it as Personality Qualities, human behavior

• Adjective/ Adverb

Identify Self– Management Skills

How does one people manage themselves How you get on with people

How you behave in different situations

How you approach jobs and tasks

Your suitability for different opportunities How does one people manage themselves How you get on with people

How you behave in different situations

How you approach jobs and tasks

Your suitability for different opportunities

• How you get on with people

• How you behave in different situations

• How you approach jobs and tasks

• Your suitability for different opportunities

The importance of Self– Management Skills

• Your Personality fits the personality of the company, the bosses and the co-workers

• Well-developed self-management skills will help you efficiently communicate with co-workers, management and customers, make right decisions, plan your working time, and keep your body healthy.

• 50% of people who are not successful on the job have trouble with their co workers and bosses

• More important than knowledge expertise • Experienced V.S. good self –management skills

• Need to practice, cannot be developed overnight

Activity: Identifying Transferable Skills

WAITER

•customer service,

•multi-tasking abilities,

•communication,

•problem solving,

•customer or client relationship,

•other languages spoken,

•report or letter and email writing,

•“day-to-day” computer software, like Word and Excel, which are virtually staple requirements of just about any office based role…

Activity: Identifying Transferable Skills

MANAGER •multi-tasking abilities, •communication, •problem solving, •customer or client relationship, •training or supervision, •office management, • other languages spoken, •report or letter and email writing, •public speaking and presentations, delegation, •“day-to-day” computer software, like Word and Excel, which are virtually staple requirements of just about any office based role, problem solving, presentation skills…

Transferable Skills

• Definition Transferable skills are the skills you've gathered through

various jobs, volunteer work, hobbies, sports, or other life experiences that can be used in your next job or new career.

• Action Verb http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-

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• Used more widely and consistently than knowledge skills

• Apply to looking for first jobs and career changers

• The importance of Internship, work experience and extracurricular activities

What are the top ten transferable skills valued by employers? VERBAL

COMMUNICATION

1 Able to express your ideas clearly and confidently in speech

TEAMWORK 2 Work confidently within a group

COMMERCIAL

AWARENESS

3 Understand the commercial realities affecting the organisation.

ANALYSING &

INVESTIGATING

4 Gather information systematically to establish facts & principles. Problem solving.

INITIATIVE/SELF

MOTIVATION

5 Able to act on initiative, identify opportunities & proactive in putting forward ideas

& solutions

DRIVE 6 Determination to get things done. Make things happen & constantly looking for

better ways of doing things.

WRITTEN

COMMUNICATION

7 Able to express yourself clearly in writing

PLANNING &

ORGANISING

8 Able to plan activities & carry them through effectively

FLEXIBILITY 9 Adapt successfully to changing situations & environments

TIME MANAGEMENT 1

0 Manage time effectively, prioritising tasks and able to work to deadlines.

Survey by Microsoft, Target Jobs, the BBC, Prospects, NACE and AGR

Summary of Transferable skills

Can I apply for the job that I have no similar experience in it?

• Work experience(Internship)

• On campus activities

When changing careers many people tend to overly focus on what they need, whether that be further qualifications or new skills, rather than what they already have.

Use words professionally(Optional)

• 娴熟地--翻译—英文材料

• 细致地—归类—办公室档案

• 全面详尽地—考虑—班级管理工作

• 独立-组织-200余人参加大型比赛

• 担任-兼职销售工作，锻炼了-吃苦耐劳的精神， 培养了-与客户清晰-沟通， 快速了解并满足-客户需求的能力

Tips: Selling Your Skills to a Prospective Employer

Describe a most successful story you have experienced and skills get from it • Objectives • Obstacles • Steps • Outcomes (Quantity) • Skills

• STAR: Situation, Task, Action, Result • Don’t simple list skills, supported by evidence!!

Tips

• List your skills

• Two to three experiences

• Practice your story-telling

• How you utilize these skills in the potential jobs

• Opportunities to develop further

Summary for UNNCers • Rich understanding of Chinese society & western ways of working

• Global experience

• be more international. The students here understand and can adapt to cultural differences

• have strong English communication skills, both spoken English and written English

• be more creative & confident. Nottingham students have the opportunity to explore and innovate within their subject areas.

• be more cooperative. Teamwork is an essential requirement though out the course.

• Problem solving and analytical abilities

• Able to plan and prioritize

Reading list

• http://www.douban.com/group/topic/53620648/

• http://www.onetonline.org/find/descriptor/browse/Knowledge/

• http://www.10minuteswith.com/

Q&A

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complete the evaluation sheet on the table before you leave the session