Title: Assess Your Talents
Course: CTS1131 Hardware Configuration

Introduction

Whether you’re just leaving school, finding opportunities limited in your current position or, like many in this economy, facing unemployment, it may be time to consider your career path. Regardless of your reasons, the right career is out there for everyone. By learning how to research options, realize your strengths, and acquire new skills, as well as muster the courage to make a change, you can discover the career that’s right for you. In this module, you’ll learn how your personality, skills, value system, and personal situation may impact your job search.

- From HELPGUIDE.Org: Finding the Right Career

Objectives

Upon completion of this module, the student will be able to:

- Summarize abilities, strengths, skills and talents
- Compare stated interests with the results of a standardized interest survey
- Clarify personal and career values
- Examine self-concept, needs and their relationship to career planning
- Develop a stronger awareness of interests, strengths, values and belief systems and integrate that knowledge with the dynamics of existing occupations
- Explore personal and occupational interests, and select a personal career plan

Lecture

Career Planning - Assessing Your Talents (PowerPoint Presentation) - Be sure to read the presentation notes on each slide.

Readings

- Nine Questions That’ll Help You Find Your Dream Career - Fill in the blanks and discover your true passion.
- DISC Personality Test - Take this personality test and explore personality traits and how they influence your career choices.
- Work Values Test - Explore how what you care about matters when you consider career options.
- MyCareerTrax Skills Self-Assessment (PDF) - Explore how your skills will be an asset in your next job and how to showcase them for potential employers.
- Finding the Right Career: Choosing or Changing Career Paths - By learning how to research options, realize your strengths, and acquire new skills, as well as muster the courage to make a change, you can discover the career that’s right for you.

Media

- Career Planning PowerPoint Presentation (SlideShare) - Explains how your personality, your interests, your skills, and your life's goals can direct you to your career.
- The Art of Career Development (YouTube Video) - Gianpiero Petriglieri, associate professor at INSEAD, explains what we can all learn from artists.
- Explore Careers with Photos, Videos, and Diaries - A website that helps you explore careers with multimedia.