1 / 38

Career Exploration & Plan Development Workshop

Career Exploration & Plan Development Workshop. Day Two Any comments or questions from the first day?. 1. Day Two Agenda. PWD – Persons with Disability WOWi Interpretation Skill Types Self-Esteem Exercise Preparation for Turning Achievements Into Skills Day Two Thoughts. 2.

Download Presentation

Career Exploration & Plan Development Workshop

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Career Exploration & Plan Development Workshop Day Two Any comments or questions from the first day? Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 1

  2. Day Two Agenda • PWD – Persons with Disability • WOWi Interpretation • Skill Types • Self-Esteem Exercise • Preparation for Turning Achievements Into Skills • Day Two Thoughts Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 2

  3. Why are we talking about Disability? The purpose of the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services is to assist people with a documented disability to gain or keep employment • Research tells us how important it is for a person with a disability to accept their disability • After that a person can move forward with their goals much more successfully. Page 14,15,16,17, Activity Workbook Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 3

  4. O*Net Online – Job Accommodation Network This website is also known as JAN Page 18 Activity Goal is to help identify accommodations - • The O*Net handout contains a list of websites that can help with learning about accommodation options. Record accommodations you need on Career Decision-Making Grid, page 1, item 8.

  5. We focus on Ability in VR • In Vocational Rehabilitation - • Through self-assessment in this workshop, we help you look at your abilities and strengths and how to use those in the classroom and the workplace • As mentioned, we will continue to explore what accommodations will work for you in the classroom and/or workplace • Our mutual goal is Employment! Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 5

  6. WORLD OF WORK INVENTORY(WOWi) • Measures interests, job satisfaction (work values) & aptitudes related to work choices Page 19 Activity • You took WOWi prior to workshop • You will be sharing your individual results with your VRC between Day Three and Day Four by appointment • Group interpretation today: • To answer general questions • To examine suggested career interest areas Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 6

  7. WOWi Career Training Potentials (Aptitudes) • “What am I good at doing?” • Aptitude is a measure of your “potential to learn” in different areas • Aptitudes are unique to each individual • Measures individual results in six ability areas • Your scores are compared to others of the same age and others of the same education Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 7

  8. 6 Aptitude Areas - WOWi Aptitude Measured How? • Verbal Using Words • Numerical Basic Math Skills • Abstractions Problem-Solving • Spatial – Form Visualizing 3- Dimensional Objects • Mechanical/Electrical Mechanical Reasoning • Clerical Organizing Information Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 8

  9. Ability Results • COMPARE your individual ability scores by saying • “I learn better using words than numbers or vice versa” • It’s easier to learn in some ways than in others • We all learn differently – like the Barsch tells us Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 9

  10. World of Work Inventory (WOWi) • Go to Profile Report • Look at the Summary page with the four boxes. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 10

  11. WOWi – Profile ReportAptitudes • First Box on the Left • High-Measured Career Training Potentials • Aptitude and ability • By Age – lists your aptitude strengths compared to others of same age • By Education – lists your aptitude strengths compared to others with similar education • Most important score because you’ll most likely be competing for jobs with people of similar education Record High-Measured Career Training Potential on Career-Decision-Making Grid, page 1, item 9. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 11

  12. WOWi – Job Satisfaction Indicators The box in the upper right hand corner. “What’s important to me in the workplace?” • Measures your preferred work values in 12 areas: • Versatile - performing variety of tasks • Adaptable to repetitive work • Adaptable to working under specific instructions • Dominant – self-directed, decisive and can direct the work of others Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 12

  13. WOWi – Job Satisfaction Indicators - Gregarious – preference for working with others • Isolative - preference for working alone • Influencing – how much you like to persuade others • Self-Controlled – ability to maintain control in stressful situations and under deadlines • Valuative – making decisions using hunches, intuition and how they feel about things • Objective – basing decisions on facts and data - Subjective - being creative on the job - Rigorous - paying attention to details and rules Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 13

  14. WOWi – Job Satisfaction Indicators • Job Satisfaction Indicators • We have defined the JSI’s • You learned your preferences • Do these results describe you? Remember to record your JSI preferences on the Career Decision-Making Grid, page 1, item 10 Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 14

  15. WOWi – Self-Selected Choices Lower left-hand corner on Profile Report • Do your “Self-Selected Choices” of Occupational Areas seem to cover your areas of interest? • Do your selected “Best Liked Subjects” seem to cover your preferred interests? Record this information in the Career Decision-Making Grid, page 4, item 11, and page 2, item 12. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 15

  16. WOWi – Career Interest Activities Lower right-hand corner - • The content of this box (Career Interest Activities) suggests a broad range of career interests that “fit” what you know about yourself. • Record your Career Interest Activities in your Career Decision-Making Grid, page 4, item 13, and Career Recommendations, page 4, item 14. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 16

  17. Putting the WOWi all together • Combining the results of: • your career interests (what you like to do) • career training potentials (what you do well) • job satisfaction indicators (what’s important to you in the work environment) Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 17

  18. Morning Break • 15 minutes • Return to the workshop at _________ Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 18

  19. What is a Skill? • An ability you have learned from activities at work, school, leisure life, hobbies • When you write a resume and participate in an interview, you are using language that describes your skills. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 19

  20. 3 Types of Skills • Job-Specific or Work-Content Skills • “Soft Skills” or Self Management Skills • Transferable Skills Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 20

  21. Job-Specific Skills • A type of skill that is unique to a specific job or occupation • Examples – doing a blood analysis, driving a fork lift, using a cash register Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 21

  22. Job-Specific Skills • Can you think of a job-specific skill that you have used in the past? Record work content skills in Career Decision-Making Grid, page 2, item 15. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 22

  23. “Soft Skills" or Self Management Skills Skills which describe HOW you work - • Often related to your “work ethic” and Job Satisfaction Indicators • Examples: independent, dependable, enjoy working with people, attentive to detail, persuading other people • Can you name a self-management skill that you have used in the past? P. 20-21 Activity Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 23

  24. Self-Management Skills Inventory • In left-hand column, check any of the self-management skills that you have demonstrated in the workplace, learning life, leisure life or personal life. • If you can think of some examples of how/when you demonstrated that skill, list the example in the right-hand column marked “Examples.” Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 24

  25. Self-Management Skills • Remember to add these skills to your Career Decision-Making Grid. List three of your strengths on page 2, item 16. Be sure to place your inventory in your manual. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 25

  26. Transferable Skills • What are yours? • These skills could include: • leading, planning, repairing, organizing, communicating, persuading, and the list could go on Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 26

  27. Transferable Skills • Are abilities used in activities with people, data, things or ideas • Examples - training adults, computing numbers, handling money, leading people, planning projects, discussing theories, repairing machines • Remember the connection with your Holland interests and WOWi results to people, data, things or ideas Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 27

  28. Transferable Skills Scale • You will be taking the Transferable Skills Scale to help you identify and document your preferred transferable skills. • Notice that these skills are connected to Data, People, Things & Ideas that we talked about with the Holland Types. • Your results will connect you with occupations that relate to your transferable skills . Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 28

  29. Making Connections • Analytical ----------------- Data • Numerical ---------------- Data • Interpersonal ----------- People • Organizational --------- People • Physical ------------------ Things • Informational ---------- Things • Communicative -------- Ideas • Creative ------------------ Ideas

  30. Transferable Skills -Connection to Holland Types? Transferable Skill TypeHolland Type • Analytical Investigative - Thinkers • Numerical Investigative - Thinkers • Interpersonal Social - Helpers • Organizational Enterprising - Persuaders • Physical Realistic - Doers • Informational Conventional - Organizers • Communicative Enterprising - Persuaders • Creative Artistic - Creators Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 30

  31. Documenting Your TSS Results • Time to document your TSS results. In which section(s) did you get your highest scores – Career Decision-Making Grid: Record your preferences (page 2, number 17) • Occupation (page 3, number 18) Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 31

  32. Noon Lunch Break • Be back at ……? Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 32

  33. Self-Esteem • As a group, answer the questions on the Self Esteem Worksheet. P. 22 Activity Career Decision-Making Grid (Pg. 3, # 21): Record what you learned about self-esteem. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 33

  34. Developing YourAchievement Story • Think about everything that you did to accomplish each step of your activity. • This is your opportunity to take credit for the good work that you did! • Details should include the skills you used. • Refer to Action Words/Skills (handout). • Tell your story by using pictures, by storytelling or writing it out. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 34

  35. The Group Process“I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends” • Tomorrow, we will be using groups to help each of you document all of the skills in your stories. • We will explain the process more tomorrow… Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 35

  36. Homework • Develop Achievement Story # 1 and celebrate your achievement. Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 36

  37. My Achievement Story • Name your achievement • Connect to work, leisure, learning or personal relationships? • When did it occur? • Who was involved? • Personal item related to story? (visual aid) • Major steps • Details of the steps Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 37

  38. Day Two Thoughts? • Your impressions/reactions to today’s activities…… ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Maine Vocational Rehabilitation 38

More Related