Educational Guidance Career Development Skills Loretta Jennings Career Development Centre

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Educational GuidanceCareer Development
SkillsLoretta Jennings Career Development
Centre

• Learning Objectives
• To introduce the key concepts relating to career
  choice and development.
• Outcomes
• The development of key skills which will enhance
  your employability throughout your lifelong
  career.

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Educational GuidanceModule Overview

• Session 1
• Approaches to Guidance
• Career Planning Cycle
• Assess your skills, personality, interests,
  motivations and values
• Modern Career Theory
• Session 2
• Research different career options relevant to
  your degree choice
• Assignment Planning
• Session 3
• Presentation Night

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Approaches to Guidance

• Traditional
• focussed on helping people make immediate
  decisions through face-to-face, knee-to-knee
  guidance
• Test and Tell
• Modern
• broader and encompasses the development of Career
  Management Skills essential to becoming a
  Lifelong Learner such as the ability to make and
  implement effective career decisions.

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Some preliminary thoughts..

• Average employee works a minimum of
• 40 hours a week
• 40 weeks a year
• 40 years in our life
• Long time if you are not fulfilled in your career
• Yet most people spend more time planning a
  holiday than their career
• Find a job you enjoy and you will not work a day
  in your life

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Career Planning

• Self awareness
• interests, values, motivations, skills
• Opportunity
• options with your qualification occupations
• Decisions
• Linking Self to Employment Opportunities
• Transition Skills
• Job Search Skills CV Interviews

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DOTS Model of Career Planning
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Career Planning Cycle
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Know Yourself

• Self-awareness, or understanding more about
  ourselves, is at the centre of personal and
  career development. 

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Know Yourself

• Personality
• allows us to interact with the world and each
  other in different ways
• Values
• define whats important to us
• Interests
• express what we are passionate about
• Skills and abilities
• allow us to demonstrate what we are good at

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Personality

• Personality influences how we do things
• interact with others
• plan our work
• use our leisure time
• tackle problems etc

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Personality

• Ask yourself these questions
• Do you think of yourself as unique?
• Do you share some characteristics with other
  people you know?

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Personality

• We can be both unique and yet share
  characteristics with others. 
• Idea of measuring personality ?????

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Online Psychometric Packages
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www.careerdirections.ie
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The Art of Building Windmills

• Range of creative exercises to help people take
  charge of their career and manage it on their own
  terms. It offers a structured process for
  discovering
• what your skills are
• identifying the key elements in your ideal job
  and
• developing practical job search techniques.
• provides help with self promotion, such as
• creating a winning CV and
• achieving success at interview.

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Self Awareness
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Preliminaries to Success

• Commitment - Time and Effort
• Success comes before work only in a dictionary!
  Mark Twain
• Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.
  You must set yourself on fire. Arnold H. Glasow
• Success is that old ABC
• ability, breaks and courage.
• Charles Luckman

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Some final thoughts on Success

• There is only one success - to be able to spend
  your life in your own way.
• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is
  wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie

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Planned Happenstance Career Development

• Planned having arranged the partsHappen to
  occur by chanceStance a view or attitude

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Planned Happenstance Theory
Career Development and Career Adaptability

• Helps individuals develop skills to recognise,
  create and use chance in career development.
• Requires curiosity
• to explore new learning opportunities
• to persist despite setbacks
• to meet changing attitudes and circumstances with
  flexibility
• to optimistically view new opportunities as
  possible and attainable
• to take risks by being proactive in the face of
  uncertain outcomes.

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Planned Happenstance

• Indecision is not only sensible but also
  desirable
• Open-mindedness should be celebrated, not
  discouraged You can create and benefit from
  unplanned events
• The ultimate goal of career counselling/planning
  is creating satisfying lives, not just making a
  decision
• Tests and activities are used to stimulate
  learning, not just to match
• You need to engage in exploratory action
• Benefits should be maximised from unplanned
  events
• Lifelong learning is essential.

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Planned Happenstance

• Kathleen Mitchell, author of the book The
  Unplanned Career.
• Basic concept is that the career that's right for
  you won't unfold in a nice, tidy, linear process,
  much as we might like to make it so. The focus
  instead is on curiosity and taking action.

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Career Advisers Dilemma

• Wanting to reduce anxiety over indecision by
  quickly moving to options which does help to
  reduce anxiety.
• In removing anxiety it actually cuts off the
  energy and excitement about the exploration stage
  of the process.
• By throwing out job titles, we essentially cut
  off the role of curiosity.

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Traditional Guidance Model

• Has the goal of helping a client make a career
  decision. If the client refuses (for any one of a
  number of valid reasons) to make a decision, the
  client is labelled with unflattering names such
  as "undecided" or "indecisive."
• The Planned Happenstance Theory pictures people
  who refuse to declare a career direction as
  responding sensibly to a world which is changing
  and to the certainty that they themselves will be
  changing too.
• A more flattering label should be given to them
  such as "open minded."

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Planned Happenstance

• "We do not always need a plan to create a career.
  
• Instead, we need a plan to act on happenstance -
  to transform unplanned events into career
  opportunity."
• "In praise of uncertainty" by Kathleen Mitchell
  (1998)