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Career Planning & Professional Skills Developing your own strategy Week 1 Miss Amanda Paananen Table of Contents: • Personal Style • Key Skills • Knowledge Base • Interests • Motivators • Self-Assessment Identify Your Strategic When thinking about our careers, it is important to Advantage unders...

Career Planning & Professional Skills Developing your own strategy Week 1 Miss Amanda Paananen Table of Contents: • Personal Style • Key Skills • Knowledge Base • Interests • Motivators • Self-Assessment Identify Your Strategic When thinking about our careers, it is important to Advantage understand who you are and where you best fit in the workplace. Describing Your Personal Your personal style is the sum total of your Style It describes the characteristics and traits that you bring unique qualities. your work and your interaction with others. The 16PF Raymond Cattell (19051968) created the personality inventory (assessment) The 16PF. According to Cattell, there is a continuum of personality factors (traits). In other words, each person contains all of these 16 traits to a certain degree, but they might be high in Abstractedness: some traits and low in others (Kendra, 2019). Imaginative versus practical Apprehension: Reasoning: Worried versus Abstract versus confident concrete Dominance: RuleForceful versus consciousness: submissive Conforming Emotional versus nonstability: Calm conforming versus highSelf-reliance: Selfstrung sufficient versus Liveliness: dependent Your Key Skills This part of your strategic advantage comprises the professional credentials and technical skills you have acquired through formal education and training plus the functional skills that have grown out of your practical experience. Skills constitute what you do. To create a complete inventory, start by recording all of your Include any credentials processes, and core skills. methodologies, systems programs Add youror functional in which youare aremost skills, which qualified or where easily identified by you have substantial considering the areas Include the skills you experience. of responsibility have acquired in your where youand have volunteer Samples of Functional Skills by Occupation Your Knowledge Base Your knowledge can be separate and distinct from your formal It consists of everything education and your you have learned about professional skills. everything! It includes your understanding of various industries, companies, products, market segments, regions, regulations, Your Interests What are your interests? Think beyond your hobbies and athletic pursuits. Interests include ideas or issues and philosophies that fascinate and attract you. Go Deeper: Follow this link to learn more: https://wordwall.net/resource/2993801/h obbies-interests Values and Motivations •Values are your personal guideposts. •They go hand-in-hand with the motivators that drive you. •They are informed by your upbringing, role models, expectations and experiences, and comprise your unique inner foundation. Universal Values Universal values ​are the set of norms that are perceived as positive and that govern behavior and coexistence within a society , at a given time. Entry #1: 16PF Personality Questionnaire and Self-Reflection Instructions included in the Week 1 Folder •Learning Activity: Portfolio Entry #1 References/Resources Images: https://pixabay.com/ wikipedia.com psychologytoday.com References: Watters, M. (2012). It’s your move. A guide to Career Transition and Job Search for Canadian Managers C,. Kendra. (2019).. Retrieved from https://www.verywellmind.com/cattells-16-personality-factors-2795977 Resources: Teacherspayteachers.com