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Career Planning Setting yourself up for success! ‘Know yourself’ as the foundation of your Career Planning Career Consultant: Kylie Pass  21st Century Career Paths Retire...

Career Planning Setting yourself up for success! ‘Know yourself’ as the foundation of your Career Planning Career Consultant: Kylie Pass  21st Century Career Paths Retire Back to school Change course Post-school Retrain study Redundancy Change Jobs Big OE Finish school Career Development Theory Know yourself Why? Values & Motivators - the things we believe in and hold as important. The more a job supports your value system, the more it will interest and motivate you. How? Skills & Talents (strengths) - ability to do something because you’ve practised! If you love it, you’ll want to continue to improve, how you go about things, what do you flourish in? Objectives? Interests - what excites you! Think of your favourite subjects at school, the topics you like to read or talk about and the activities you like to do in your spare time. Goals – What do you want to achieve? Where do you want to be in 1, 2, 5 years' time? How are you going to get there? Your Why Values & Motivators Answers the questions below to identify your values and motivators (add these to your document) What is important to you? What do you care about? What principles guide your life? What gets you frustrated when a value/principle is being upheld? List of values Accessibility Accomplishment Accountability Accuracy Adventure Affluence Altruism Ambition Assertiveness Balance Bravery Calmness Celebrity Challenge Charity Clarity Comfort Commitment Compassion Completion Contentment Control Courage Curiosity Dependability Directness Discipline Diversity Efficiency Empathy Enthusiasm Excellence Experience Expertise Fairness Faith Fame Family Flexibility Fun Generosity Grace Growth Health Honesty Humour Imagination Impact Independence Integrity Intelligence Justice Kindness Knowledge Leadership Learning Love Loyalty Mindfulness Optimism Originality Peace Perfection Power Prosperity Punctuality Recognition Relaxation Reliability Resourcefulness Respect Security Sensitivity Sincerity Speed Spontaneity Stability Strength Success Sympathy Teamwork Understanding Vision Wealth Winning Your How Clarifying your skills and talents Answer these questions to help consider your skills and talents (add these to your document) How would you describe yourself? How would your friends describe you? What activities do you pick up easily? What activity gives you the greatest satisfaction? What was the most successful project you ever tackled and what made it successful? Your Objectives Goals and interests Answers the questions below to identify your interests and goals (add these to your document) What do you do in your spare time? What do you get excited about? Where do you see yourself in a year's time? What are your longer-term goals of 2/3 years? Where do you want to be in 5 years time? Personal Brand WHO are you, what is your Personal Brand? Your Personal Brand statement provides a framework to describe who you are when communicating with employers Your Personal Brand isn’t so much what you do but why and how you do it It also describes your professional objectives It will develop and change throughout your life and career journey  Bringing your thoughts together Look at your YOU document, this is your Personal Brand Create 3 to 4 bullet points that make up your Personal Brand that you would want to share with an employer These bullet points will contribute to… Your elevator pitch Answering the “Tell me about yourself” question The Personal statement on your CV Your cover letter Personal branding Watch this video from recruitment agency Robert Half which explains the importance of the mahi you have just completed and how this informs and influences your career https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/related video?q=robert+half+strategic+branding&mid =114CFD3523295248B983114CFD3523295248 B983&FORM=VIRE – Personal branding Read this great article from Seek explaining the importance of a having a personal brand 3 reasons you need a personal brand and how to build it - SEEK Career Advice Article Wrap up How to contact us and access Career resources One-on-one appointments can be: Face to face Teams - online By phone https://careers.unitec.ac.nz [email protected] 0800 10 75 10 Mt Albert CV Drop-in, Te Puna, Monday – Friday 12 – 1 pm or scan the QR code to upload your CV/cover letter for feedback Moodle career resources Our jobsite