1. Lesson
2:
Assessing
Your
Career
Op0ons
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2. Overview:
Assessing
Your
Career
Op0ons
The
goals
for
this
unit
are
to
help
you
to:
• Iden;fy
your
personality,
skills,
strengths,
and
accomplishments
so
you
can
iden;fy
work
that
matches
you.
• CraB
and
write
accomplishment
statements
that
will
showcase
your
most
marketable
skills
and
strengths.
• Create
a
broad
vision
of
your
capabili;es,
beyond
your
current
work,
to
iden;fy
a
list
of
transferable
skills
that
you
can
use
in
your
job
search.
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3. Who
Are
You?
As
you
consider
some
next
steps
for
your
career
and
life,
it
is
important
for
you
to
assess
your
strengths,
interests,
and
personality.
Perhaps
you
have
never
considered
your
talents
or
what
you
enjoy
doing.
If
so,
the
following
ques;ons
can
assist
you
with
guiding
your
self-­‐assessment.
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4. Worksheet:
Priori0zing
Work
Related
Value
To
complete
this
exercise
you
will
want
to
print
the
Lesson
2
Worksheet:
Self-­‐Assessment,
and
fill
it
out
as
you
go
along
.
All
worksheets
are
available
from
the
course
page
on
the
CMSVCC.com
website.
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3.
4.
What
types
of
ac;vi;es
do
you
enjoy
performing?
If
you
could
do
anything
you
wanted,
what
would
you
choose?
What
do
you
enjoy
doing
so
much
that
you
would
engage
in
it
for
free?
What
type
of
ac;vity
occupies
you
so
much
that
;me
flies
by
to
the
point
you
are
unaware
of
its
passage?
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5. Define
Your
Strengths
Consider
your
strengths.
Strengths
are
“personal
quali;es
that
you
may
have
been
born
with
and
that
you
have
cul;vated
over
;me.”
“Strengths”
are
some;mes
referred
to
as
“talents.”
To
determine
which
strengths
to
emphasize
during
your
job
search,
you
must
first
discover
what
you
do
best.
People
oBen
ignore
talents
when
they
begin
their
self-­‐assessment.
They
do
so
because
talents
represent
skills
that
are
easy
for
them
to
perform.
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6. Define
Your
Strengths
Think
of
instances
when
other
people
have
complimented
you
(much
to
your
surprise)
because
the
execu;on
of
your
tasks
(du;es,
responsibili;es,
etc.)
was
effortless
for
you
to
perform.
Be
sure
not
to
overlook
these
talents
(strengths).
In
the
following
Skills
Inventory,
you
will
examine
the
work
skills
of
past
jobs
that
produced
your
accomplishments
and
iden;fy
those
skills
you’d
prefer
to
develop
in
the
future.
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7. Worksheet:
Skills
Inventory
To
complete
this
exercise
you
will
want
to
print
the
Lesson
2
Worksheet:
Skills
Inventory,
and
fill
it
out
as
you
go
along
.
All
worksheets
are
available
from
the
course
page
on
the
CMSVCC.com
website.
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8. Exercise:
Skills
Inventory
The
Skills
Inventory
is
organized
into
main
four
categories;
Communica;on
Skills,
Management
Skills,
Crea;ve
Skills,
and
Specialist
Skills.
Review
the
Skills
Inventory
and
place
a
check
in
the
“Have
Done”
column
for
each
of
the
skills
you
have
used
in
the
past.
Then,
check
all
of
the
skills
you
are
interested
in
developing
in
the
“Want
to
Do”
column.
Add
skills
not
listed
in
the
spaces
provided.
Indicate
“No
Interest”
for
ac;vi;es
that
have
lidle
meaning
for
you
and
for
which
you
are
disinterested
in
developing
skills.
Once
you
have
completed
the
main
categories,
move
on
to
“Skills
I
Want
to
Use
in
My
Next
Job”.
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9. Skills
Inventory
From
the
list
you’ve
created,
record
your
“mo;vated
skills”
(skills
you
use
because
you
are
mo;vated
to
do
so)
that
you
want
to
use
in
your
next
job.
It
is
es;mated
that
the
average
American
worker
possesses
500-­‐700
skills.
However,
we
don’t
necessarily
enjoy
using
all
of
these
skills.
Focus
on
your
“mo;vated
skills”
(skills
you
use
because
you
are
mo;vated
to
do
so).
It
is
important
to
consider
what
you
like
to
do
as
an
important
factor
in
you
success.
If
we
employ
skills
that
we
enjoy,
we
will
naturally
succeed
with
our
outcomes.
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