Career Achievement

Karine Blackett

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Skills and Interests –
Your Career Assets
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 LEARNING OUTCOMES
1) Describe and provide examples of your values,
interests, and personality as they relate to
obtaining employment
2) Define the terms soft skills and adaptive skills
and explain their importance in job-seeking and
career achievement
3) Understand and provide examples of hard skills
and transferable skills
4) Identify your skill gap
5) Match your degree to your goals and career
possibilities
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 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
1) How can being more aware of your
personality and values help you in your
career, or when job hunting?
2) What are three things you learned about
yourself from the assessments on
personality or on values?
3) Finish the following statement in your own
words: If you want to make money, you
should find work that you…

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 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
 Example: Listening

 Adaptive Skills:
 Soft skills, related to your work style, and help you function as a
good employee on a day-to-day basis
 Examples: Time management, honesty, dexterity, active

listening

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 HARD SKILLS AND
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
 By knowing what skills you do possess, you will
be able to identify skills you need to acquire for
your ideal job
 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
Examples: Decision making,

communication, and team building

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 JOB-SPECIFIC SKILLS
Job-Specific Skills
Skills that require special training,
experience, education, or certification
Job postings are a great source of the

specific terms you can use for your

cover letter, resume, and interview

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 ACHIEVEMENTS
Achievement
An accomplishment or success that you
attain
 Make your skills and achievements specific
and quantifiable in your marketing
documents

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 YOUR BRAND IDENTITY
Brand Identity
Your personal marketing image that
highlights your worth and value to
employers
You are your Product.
Identifying your marketable skills is crucial

in the job search

Learn how to market your skills and relate

them to the positions you seek

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 IDENTIFY YOUR SKILLS GAP
Skills Gap
The skills you must acquire in order to
obtain your ideal job
 Examine the positions you seek and see
what requirements you still need to obtain

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 SELF-CHECK
4) Name three qualities that employers look
for in a worker.
5) Consider the three qualities you chose
above. What type of skill is each quality?
6) What are some ways you can use your
skills-gap identification information?

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 YOUR DEGREE
Match Your Degree to Goals and
Possibilities
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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 CHAPTER 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 / TERM CHECK
1) 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.
3) Explain transferable skills and provide two
examples.
4) Define skill gap. Explain how you might
close this gap.
5) Name two different careers (job
titles/positions) you could consider with your
degree.
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