Week 2 Values & Skills

Introduction

This week is all about learning what motivates you.  Values are what is important to you.  Skills, abilities, aptitudes and preferences for using certain types of "intelligences" is all about how you want to define what you do at a job on a daily basis.  Life offers enough challenges.  Most of us want to use the skills that are easiest for us to develop in our career.  This week you will focus on these two topics as well as developing a way to make what you are learning in this class visible to you, to me, and to anyone else you want to share that information.  You will be developing a web based career ePortfolio to display the work you are doing in this course.  It is an easy piece of software that lets you put your information in a secure place on the web.

Objectives

Students will:

• Define and clarify your values
• Understand how your values motivate you
• Demonstrate how your values affect your career decisions
• Understand the importance of skills in your career search
• Define and identify your skills
• Recognize the power of the transferability of your skills
• Understand the requirements of your career portfolio

Values Iinformation

Skills Information

What is a Career Porfolio?

Complete as many of the online Values assessments as it takes for you to feel sure you have identified your top 5 work values and 3 possible careers that would allow your to express your values

Complete the Achievements Worksheet

List 3-4 achievements that you would like to do for paid employment and list 3 careers where you would be able to build on this prior achievements

Complete the Multiple Intelligences Survey and read the websites linked from the Multiple Intelligences assignment

           List your top 2-3 preferences from the Multiple Intelligences Survey and list 3 careers where you would be able to use your
           preferences on this survey.

Design and describe your most perfect job

• Create your own hours
• Create your own work activities
• Describe where you are working
• Describe with whom you are working - describe their characteristics
• What are you wearing
• What else is important about this job?

Describe the worse job you can imagine using all the categories above.

React to the contributions of at least two other students.

Step 1 Make a copy of your Career Profile Data Sheet.  Add a hard copy to your binder and copy a hard copy to your computer. 

Step 2 Add results and possible careers from values and achievements worksheets along with Multiple Intelligences Survey to your Career Profile Data Sheet.  You will turn this form in during Weeks 2, 3, 4 & 5.  The purpose of this form is to gather results from all career inventories and see what careers would be a good fit for each individual result.  At the end you will be able to look at everything on one sheet.  You will upload this as a completed file to your ePortfolio

Step 3 Upload your Career Profile Datasheet to the Assignment Drop

You will submit this assignment to the Assignment Drop.  Here is how to do it:

• Go to the Table of Contents for this Module
• Open the Career Profile Datasheet
• Use your Right Mouse button to right click on the document and Select All
• Go to Edit on your Menu Bar and select Copy
• Open a new Word Document, go to Edit, Paste
• Complete the assignment
• Save as yourlastnamedatasheetwk2
• Go back to course website
• Select Assignment Drop
• Select Career Profile Datasheet
• Select Upload File
• Select the Browse button to find the yourlastnamedatasheetwk2 document
• Select upload
• Select Submit assignment button
• Say ok to the Confirmation box
• I will return this assignment with feedback
• Don't forget to return to the Career Profile Datasheet link in the Assignment Drop to read my feedback

Assignments Summary