1. Rosa Martinez
Mar 8

3. Values Qualities
Me
Needs Interests

4. Self-
Assessment
Skills Career Career
Development Management Awareness
Goal-Setting

5.  Reflect on career awareness competencies from
a Canadian perspective
 Identify opportunities to develop career
awareness skills

6.  In pairs, discuss your career awareness
competencies from your country perspective

7. • To know what makes work environments
personally satisfying and productive; and to be
able to create these environments
• To understand the culture of my workplace

8.  To identify desired organizational values and
goals
 To understand industry changes and their
impact on career effectiveness

9.  To have a sense of future options and
opportunities for my career
 To be effective at building relationships
and support systems for my career
growth

10.  How would you assess your career awareness
competencies by regards to Canadian
standards?
 Watch the videos by Lionel Laroche

11.  Structure of Canadian society
 Technical Skills versus Soft Skills
 Canadian organizations: 60% technical skills &
40% soft skills
 Soft skills are measured by cultural standards
 Newcomers: high technical skills, low soft
skills
 Canadian professional networking:
professional peers
 Change is incremental

12. Brainstorm ways to develop your
career awareness in the medical
field

13.  How important are soft skills in your career
advancement?
 What can you do to get the soft skills you
need?

15.  Laroche, L. (2010). ISAP 2008-Lionel Laroche [Online
video]. Canada: Ontario Council of Agencies Serving
Immigrants. Retrieved March 6, 2012, from
http://vimeo.com/17473916
 University of California Berkeley (n.d.). Career
Development at UC of Berkeley. In Human Resources at
Berkeley. Retrieved February 21, 2012, from
http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/learning/career-
development