Career Development V1 By: Ashraf Bedaewi

1. Career Development
ASHRAF BEDAEWI
All Rights Reserved © 2013
Goal Trainer
June 24, 2013

2. • Define your skills, values, and personal characteristics.
• Target opportunities that match your talents and interests.
• Set your career goals and create action plans
• Develop the tools to market yourself to potential employers.
• Navigate and negotiate employment contracts
• Evaluate your career aspirations on an ongoing basis
Objectives of Career

3. • Understand why self assessment is a key factor in career
success.
• Conduct a complete assessment of your personal attributes,
values, skills, and career interests.
• Identify and prioritize your personal attributes, values, skills, and
career interests
Learning outcomes

4. Experience the Exercise
Activities: Self assessment
Part I: Listing your pride experiences.
List positive experiences from your past that you are proud of
and that energize you. Choose your top six experiences and
prioritize them.

5. Experience the Exercise
Activities: Self assessment
Part II: Writing your pride stories.
Write a story for each of your six pride experiences.

6. Experience the Exercise
Activities: Self assessment
Part III: Charting your characteristics.
Fill out an assessment chart for each story. Each chart will
include descriptions of characteristics in the areas of personal
attributes, values, skills, and interests.

7. Experience the Exercise
Activities: Self assessment
Part IV: Viewing and ranking your Personal Attributes list.
View the characteristics you chose most often in describing
yourself in your stories. If necessary, rank characteristics to
break any tied scores.

8. Experience the Exercise
Activities: Self assessment
Part V: Based on the information you submitted, here are your
personal results!
Submit your characteristics information in chart form. This
information will generate your Holland Career Type as well as
occupational suggestions that complement these characteristics.

9. Experience the Exercise
Activities: Self assessment
Part VI: Complete this activity.
Add any missing characteristics and your top knowledge areas to
complete your summary chart.

10. Top 5 Skills required for a job
Video

11. Learning outcomes
• Learn how to conduct occupational research (print, online, and in-
person).
• Establish a learning plan and set educational goals.
Activities:
1. Occupational research
2. Further education

12. Learning outcomes
• Establish a learning plan and set educational goals.

13. Learning outcomes
• Learn how to conduct an effective work search including best
practices: work search, résumé writing, curriculum vitae,
letter writing, interviewing skills, and negotiating job offers.

14. Learning outcomes
Activities:
• Work search
• Résumé writing
• curriculum vitae writing
• Letter writing
• Interview skills
• Negotiating job offers

15. Learning outcomes
• Demonstrate an awareness of on-the-job safety.
• Identify appropriate ways to successfully adapt to the
organization.

16. Learning outcomes
Getting prepared:
1. Before you arrive
2. Starting your job
3. Early days
4. Longer term success
5. When it does not fit
6. Working safely

17. Learning outcomes
Activities:
1. Avoiding the pitfalls of office politics
2. Office politics follow-up
3. On the job safety

18. Learning outcomes
• Recognize the importance of periodic re-evaluation of your career
direction
Getting prepared:
• Re-evaluation
Activities:
1. Work/life planning review questions

19. Quote
Being a good person does not Depend on
your religion, status in life, your race or skin
color, political views or culture.
It depends on how good you treat others.

20. Career Development
Ashraf Bedaewi
All Rights Reserved © 2013
Goal Trainer
23 June, 2013
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