BUS300 1

BUS 300:

Career Planning

Planning Your Career:

The Self Assessment

American University of the Middle East

Contents used in this presentation are adapted from Career Planning Strategies

and used with the permission of the author.

Self-assessment- Goal Directed Behavior

Who am I today?

Consider yourself

What do I want?

Long term strategic plan

Career Planning Elements

 Self-assessment

 Career exploration

 Job search

Your activates

are directed by

your expected

outcome.

Your Highest Competencies and Talent

The best decisions about careers come only

after a self-understanding

FIRST: Who am I?

SECOND: What’s available?

What are your career options?

DEPENDS!

Background of values, interests, personal qualities, and specific

skills will produce better career decisions.

Self-Assessment Means

Know yourself

It's a do-it-yourself project!

Initial draft of your resume

is one starting point.

Self-Assessment Means

Going Beyond Your Resume

Analyze factors important to you!

Carefulness of analysis

influences the quality decisions latter.

personality

attitude

interests

appearance

values

ideas

goals

education

Result:

Statement of Goals

What you want may NOT

be compatible with abilities!

Develop compromise between

your skills and skills required in

career assignments.

Goals and Plans

• A goal is a desired future state that the

person attempts to realize

A plan is a blueprint for goal achievement

and specifies the necessary resource

allocations, schedules, tasks, and other

actions

Sample Goal Setting

I want to be RICH?

– How do I win?

– What is RICH anyway?

– By when?

Let’s put it in a SMART Way

SPECIFIC Break the goal into the core components

• 5W’s • Who: Me!

• What: $5 Million

• When: Before I turn 50

• Where: Doesn’t matter

• Why: I can retire!!!

MEASURABLE • We need to know when we have completed the

goal!

• We need to know where the finish line is?

• In a smart objective a finish line must be • a true or false;

• yes or no; or

• a number

In our case we have got:

• $5 Million

Attainable Goals have to be attainable so we do not lose the

motivation for achieving the goal.

For me personally $5 Million is attainable.

However, attaining a black belt in Karate in 4 months

time, it’s impossible or unachievable to do! Not a Real

Goal…

Therefore, it will be ignored!

Relevant

Smart Goal - Fits in to the overall reason why

you are doing this

– Why do I want the $5 Million?

– So I can retire… Relevant for my overall goal of

retirement

Time Bound

• It is time bound

• By the time I am 50…

The SMART Difference

“I want to be RICH”

“I want to have $5Million by the time I am 50

years old so that I can retire”

Self-Assessment

Starts with Assessing Your:

V Values – What is important to you?

I Interests - What activities do you enjoy most?

P Personal Qualities – What makes you unique?

S Skills – What can you do?

Taking Inventory

You want to work for an employer who:

- can use your skills to maximum degree

To determine your worth, the employer uses:

- resume

- interview

- references

Be sure of your talents.

Don't let employer make invalid conclusions.

Career Failure!!!

Background is Explored During Interview

Organize to reveal positive traits

Be Comprehensive!

Be Concise!

Your interviews extend far beyond resume entries!

SO you have to be able to say more after your CV review

Values- Thinks that you hold Dear

For a successful career, values must be

consistent with those in your career field.

Your guiding principles:

Important

Worthwhile

Useful

Education

Tangible items

Family & Religion

Values Are Feelings

You may have special

feelings and beliefs that

may influence your

career choices.

Values May Conflict

Clarify before you make career choices!

Resolve conflicts before you schedule interviews!

Assess Your Interests

Likes

Dislikes

Do not put yourself into a difficult

employment situations.

likes indifferences dislikes

Personal preferences

INTERESTS

Relates to workplace harmony and motivation

PERSONAL QUALITIES – How would you describe your

Self Image

Analyze very personal factors

How do others perceive your personality?

personality

attitudes

self-descriptors

SKILLS – key ingredients in most job descriptions

reading

writing

arithmetic

Learned abilities needed to

perform a specific task

Something you

can do with a

degree of

expertise.

Sharpened

through practice

and experience -

Singing

Psychological

Tests

Conducting the Self-assessment

• Psychological tests – Expert interpret the results

• Expert and self interpretation – • How others see you

PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST

PURPOSES

--Aid in understanding self

--Aid in relating to specific

careers

--Attempt to aid prediction

of career compatibility

Aptitude

Interest

Personality

Achievement

Intelligence

Types Of Psychological Tests

Aptitude tests measure your

potential for acquiring specific

types of knowledge.

Interests tests inventory your

likes and dislikes

Personality tests measure your

emotional make-up, stability,

personal achievement,

characteristics, and behavioral

traits.

Achievement tests measure the

extent of your knowledge in a

given field of study.

Intelligence tests measure your

abstract reasoning and capacity

for mastering problems.

Self assessment = Employer assessment

Aids YOU in making right choices

Aids EMPLOYERS in evaluation of you

This assists you in finding best match!

If you would like to

learn more, Career

Planning Strategies

textbook will supply

additional information

on this topic.