Transcript Q400 Section 3206 Job Search Strategies for Liberal Arts

The Career Development
Process
Step One: Self Assessment
The Career Assignment Center
Pick a job, any job…
Old Placement Center model
YOU have a choice and YOU direct your
career destiny!
What is the purpose of learning about
your Values, Interests, Personality, and
Skills?
• Values
• What really matters to you?
• Interests
• What ignites your passions?
• Personalities
• How do you like to interact with others?
• Skills
• What do you do well?
VIPS and World of Work
• How do these two overlap?
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Types of jobs
Work environments
Skill requirements
Employment outlook
Nature of work
Salary
Educational requirements
Putting It Together
Values
Interests
Personality
Skills
The
World
of Work
Career Development Process
Life Long Journey
Degrees and Careers
Are they mutually exclusive?
Think about your favorite classes or
professors. (Think broadly, not just law!)
Your journey is as unique as your fingerprint.
Career Decision Making
Myths
• Something is wrong with me if I don’t know what
I want yet.
• There is only ONE career for me.
• If I choose a career, I’ll be stuck with it forever.
• I’ve failed if I make a wrong choice.
• My first career will be right for my whole life.
• There is a test or an expert who can tell me what
to do with the rest of my life.
Top Fears
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Not getting a job (I want)
Job/career won’t make me happy
Won’t feel/be qualified; lack skills
Won’t be able to earn enough money
Not being good enough
Won’t meet expectations of family/friends
Career Decision Making Facts
• People differ in Values, Interests, Skills
• Each person is qualified for a number of
occupations
• Work preferences and competencies change
with time and experience
Young people hold and average of 9 jobs
before the age of 35.
On the average, a student leaving college
today can be expected to have three to five
CAREERS and ten to twelve JOBS during a
work life that will last for 40/50 years.
Assessments
Values
Pay attention to yourself
What are your peak experiences?
How do you spend discretionary money?
Whom do you admire?
What reasons have driven your past
decisions?
Values
Pay attention to yourself!
Job give away…HANDS UP!
Values - Job Give Away
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You will earn a yearly salary of $50,000
Your work environment will be inside a Federal building
Your work schedule will include nights and some weekends
You work will require some Spanish language ability
You will have to pass a background check and substance abuse
tests
This position requires a commitment to indigent defense and a
desire for trial experience
You will be supervised by a boss in a large department
Your work will require Bar Admission in New Mexico
The Job?
Assistant Public Defender in New Mexico
Values
Start to think in terms of what you value.
You have a choice!
Keep a list of your values, add to it often.
Daydream…
Close your eyes…
Daydream
• Your alarm clock goes off to let you know it is time to get up and go to
work, what time do you want it to be?
• You go to your closet to get your clothes for work, what do you want
to wear?
• You take a look around the place you are living…what does it look
like?
• Are you living with anyone…your own place, spouse, roommate(s)?
• You look out the window, what do you want to see?
• You are ready to go to work…do you leave the house? If so, how do
you get to work?…how long does it take?
• Do you work with a lot of people, a few people, or by yourself?
• Do you work inside, outside, or both?
• When your work is done, what time do you get home?
• Wake up from your daydream!
Sample Work Values
Achievement
Adventure
Change/variety
Creativity
Helping others
Time freedom
Independence
Leadership
Security
Community
Excitement
Fun
Intellectual status
Prestige
Recognition
Relationships
Salary
Travel
Interests
Pay Attention to yourself!
Strong Interest Inventory Assessment
R – THE DOERS - People who
prefer to work in a hands-on
environment with objects,
machines, tools, plants, or animals
or to be outdoors.
I – THE THINKERS - People who
like to observe, learn, investigate,
analyze, evaluate, or solve
problems.
C – THE ORGANIZERS - People
who like to work with information
or data, organizing and carrying
things out in detail to facilitate
decision making.
A – THE CREATORS - People who
have artistic, innovating or
performing interests and like to
work in unstructured situations
using their imagination or creativity.
E – THE PERSUADERS - People
who like to work with people
influencing, persuading or
performing or leading or managing
for organizational goals or for
economic gain.
S – THE HELPERS - People who
like to work with people – to
inform, enlighten, help, train,
develop or cure them, or are skilled
with words.
Personality
Pay attention to yourself!
– What are your preferences?
– How do you prefer to re-charge?
– How do you perceive information?
– How do you prefer to make decisions?
– How do you prefer to deal with the
outside world?
Skills
Specialized knowledge
• Technical (computers, language)
• Adaptive (work ethic, professionalism)
• Transferable skills (legal analysis, writing)
– Skills that can be applied to many job situations
and transferred from your academic experience
to your work experience.
Skills
Pay attention to yourself!
Ask others what you do well - faculty,
colleagues, peers, etc.
• What do you do well or have a natural
appetite for?
• What gives you strength?
• Just because you do something well does
not mean you enjoy it!
Sample Skills
Sell
Motivate
Train
Operate
Construct
Improvise
Analyze
Speak in public
Advocate
Coach
Repair
Design
Budget
Evaluate
Synthesize
Write
Mediate
Negotiate
Coordinate
Delegate
Listen
Assemble a Good for You File
Save and archive artifacts that showcase your
accomplishments
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Top graded assignments/papers
Thank you notes, emails
Letters of recommendation
Awards, certificates, nominations
Activities and projects which reflect
transferable skills
Once again, why VIPS?
Research shows that…
Values are the biggest predictor of career
SATISFACTION
Interests are the biggest predictor of
CAREER CHOICE
Skills are the biggest predictor of career
SUCCESS
Personality encompasses all!
Use the resources available to you…
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Office of Career & Professional
Development
OCPD staff
Faculty
Indiana Law Alumni
Network
Career Development is a process…
• What will you do with it?
• Test drive, research, explore
• Network, network, network!
Celebrate your strengths…
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all
there is of you.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson