1. Sophomore Success Series
Today’s Agenda
CareerConnect Tour & CCPA Online Resources
Strengthsquest & Leadership
FOCUS 2 & Values
Majors & Careers
Informational Interviews (time permitting)
Recap and Q&A
Goals
Get to know each other
Get to know your strengths and how they can work together
Get to know me and CCPA – following up as this is a general overview, and feel comfortable referring your first years and friends
Ask that you turn off cell phones and be present
A big group, will be loud, please help manage noise
Listen and contribute

2. CareerConnect & CCPA Online Resources
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Discovery (of talents): this assessment tool (and others)
Highlight what fits on your report and ask three people about it. (pp )
Develop (by adding skills and knowledge): through study, training, practice
Application: in activities, internships, volunteer opportunities, work
(p. 10 in book)

3. EVENTS: INFO SESSIONS & WORKSHOPS BI-CO HOT JOBS
COMPLETE YOUR PROFILE!
(including Career Interests!)
DETAILED SEARCH
CareerConnect
HOME PAGE
UPLOAD RESUMES & MORE
EVENTS: INFO SESSIONS & WORKSHOPS
BI-CO HOT JOBS
ONE-CLICK SEARCHES
JUMP TO OTHER NETWORKS

4. CareerConnect Login

5. Why Self-Assess?
Understanding yourself is integral to choosing a major and eventually a career.
Step 1: Identify your interests, personality, values, skills and lifestyle preferences
Step 2: Explore occupations and major areas of study compatible with your personal attributes

6. Using Your Strengths! Positivity Relator Arranger Input Achiever
Kelly
Positivity
Relator
Arranger
Input
Achiever
Casey
Empathy
Discipline
Restorative
Positivity
Includer
Barb and all - Introductions and discuss how Strengths have affected us. Ask students to introduce themselves.
CCPA

7. Looking at the following transcript from last semester, which grades would you focus on first?
Two As
One B
Two Ds
One F

8. Using Your Strengths! Write the following sentence out:
I am excited to be attending this workshop.
Now write it with your non-dominant hand
Make the animation appear.
Give them 20 seconds.
Then have it click out next write out in .

9. Strengths Building: How It Works
Investment
(time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base)
Talent
(a natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving)
Strength
The ability to consistently perform at a high level.
Talents are things you use without even thinking about it, you can’t not use them, they are automatic. They may be so automatic that you think everyone has them.
This assessment helps identify these raw talents, so you can build on them with knowledge and skills (through education, internships, activities, etc.).
Talent: naturally recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied (p. 2)
Skill: basic ability to perform the specific steps of an activity
Knowledge: facts and lessons learned
Strength: talents refined with knowledge and skill. “When you have supplemented your greatest talents with knowledge and skill to the point at which you can provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity, you have a strength.”
Unlike “talent,” “skill” and “knowledge” can be acquired.

10. How accurately do you feel your StrengthsQuest results represent you?
Very/ Spot on
Mostly
Somewhat
Who is this person? It’s obviously not me.
Another way to phrase this would be, “Do you think your strengthsquests results accurately reflect you?”
Ask for feedback from a few participants. If someone on the “not at all” responds, suggest that they get feedback from others that know them well and also suggest that it is fine to claim other strengths.
can mention how she felt “input” was off until she realized it could be collecting knowledge, not just things.
The five strength combination can be very unique for different people. (33 million combinations possible).

11. Your Individual Strengths
Using Your Strengths!
Your Individual Strengths
Write down a specific example from the past month that demonstrates one of your strengths in action.
Put space to write about this on the handout with the writing example.
Have people write for a few minutes and then group into pairs of two to discuss. After ask for a few volunteers to talk.
Ask for examples - Perhaps mention that it would be helpful to highlight the specific things that resonate with you from your reports.
Your Signature Theme Report (5, with full descriptions)
Insight Report (your 5 themes, with personalized insights “What makes you stand out”)
Insight and Action-Planning Guide (all of above, with examples and ideas for action
Use the “Affirming” chapter of the book to affirm each of your strengths AND to understand what makes each strength so valuable.

12. Using Your Strengths! Difficulties Claiming Strengths Yes No
In the past, have you viewed any of your top five strengths in a negative light?
Use the Kathleen example and my own about positivity and being seen as a “cheerleader” type.
When people volunteer answers have them read the definition of the strength for context.
Do you think some are better than others?
Yes No

13. Difficulties Claiming Strengths
Using Your Strengths!
Difficulties Claiming Strengths
Taking your strengths for granted
Fear of appearing arrogant if you affirm your strengths
Difficulty seeing how these strengths might help you achieve your goals
OK to claim strengths not on your list. (They’re not necessarily weaknesses.)
Possible Issues (p. 22)
1. Are themes not listed in my five a weakness?
2. What if I think I have talent in an additional theme that wasn’t listed? (Claim it!)
3. Is having talent a positive experience?
4. Difficulties claiming one’s strengths (next slide)
Handout on claiming strengths.

14. StrengthsFinder Reflection
In pairs, discuss:
1. Which of your Signature Themes describes you best? Why? Give an example.
2. Which of your Signature Themes do you use most frequently at Haverford? Give an example.
3. Were you surprised by anything in the report?
In groups of 2 or 3

15. Using Your Collective Strengths!
The Four Domains
Executing
Influencing
Relationship Building
Strategic Thinking
Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arranger
Command
Connectedness
Context
Belief
Communication
Developer
Futuristic
Consistency
Competition
Empathy
Ideation
Deliberative
Maximizer
Harmony
Input
Discipline
Self-Assurance
Includer
Intellection
Focus
Significance
Individualization
Learner
Responsibility
Woo
Positivity
Strategic
Restorative
Relator
Ask them to brainstorm what makes a great leader/most important qualities
Introduce idea of complementary partners

16. Strengths & Leadership
Executing:
Team members who have a dominant strength in the Executing domain are those whom you turn to time and again to implement a solution. These are the people who will work tirelessly to get something done. People who are strong in the Executing domain have an ability to take an idea and transform it into reality within the organization they lead.
Influencing:
People who are innately good at influencing are always selling the team's ideas inside and outside the organization. When you need someone to take charge, speak up, and make sure your group is heard, look to someone with the strength to influence.
Relationship Building:
Relationship builders are the glue that holds a team together. Strengths associated with bringing people together -- whether it is by keeping distractions at bay or keeping the collective energy high -- transform a group of individuals into a team capable of carrying out complex projects and goals.
Strategic Thinking:
Those who are able to keep people focused on "what they could" be are constantly pulling a team and its members into the future. They continually absorb and analyze information and help the team make better decisions.
What are three strengths your leadership style exhibits
What are areas (skills, qualities, etc.) does your leadership style need to work on?

17. Using Your Strengths! Your Strengths Quest Discover Develop Apply
Review your results, highlight best descriptions, ask others how they see that strength in you
Develop
Study, train, practice, observe
Apply
Engage in activities where you can use and improve upon your strengths
Discovery (of talents): this assessment tool (and others)
Highlight what fits on your report and ask three people about it. (pp )
Develop (by adding skills and knowledge): through study, training, practice
Application: in activities, internships, volunteer opportunities, work
(p. 10 in book)

18. Developing Leadership in College
Using Your Strengths!
Developing Leadership in College
Classroom experience
Course selection
Class assignments and studies
Athletics
Internships and work
Study groups
Student organizations
Mention this works well with supervisees and also students.

19. Your Values & Your Career
Help Society
Intellectual Status
Adventure
Help Others
Artistic Creativity
Profit,Gain
Public Contact
General Creativity
Independence
Work with Others
Aesthetics
Moral Fulfillment
Affiliation
Supervision
Location
Make Decisions
Change and Variety
Community
Work Alone
Precision Work
Time Schedule
Competition
Stability
Other?
Power and Authority
Security
Work under Pressure
Recognition
Influence People
Fast Pace
Knowledge
Excitement
Mention this works well with supervisees and also students.

20. FOCUS 2

21. FOCUS 2 In pairs, discuss:
Were there any jobs suggested to you through Focus 2 that you found either very promising or totally off base? How so?

23. Majors & Careers

24. You Majored in What?!
How did you end up at Haverford? Was it a “butterfly moment?”
Can you think of any examples of friends/family experiencing a butterfly moment? Or a linear moment?

25. Create-a-Career Fill in the interest/skill/value cells.
Match 2-3 in each row to create a real or imaginary job/career.
Interest or Skill
Interest/Skill/Value
Job/Career
real or imaginary
Major(s)
Hurdles
Math
Research/Writing
Sports
Sports Information
Math, English
Competitive Industry, Need to network
Environment
Sustainability
Social Justice
Public Housing
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Discovery (of talents): this assessment tool (and others)
Highlight what fits on your report and ask three people about it. (pp )
Develop (by adding skills and knowledge): through study, training, practice
Application: in activities, internships, volunteer opportunities, work
(p. 10 in book)

26. Networking video

27. Informational Interviews
Barb
Discovery (of talents): this assessment tool (and others)
Highlight what fits on your report and ask three people about it. (pp )
Develop (by adding skills and knowledge): through study, training, practice
Application: in activities, internships, volunteer opportunities, work
(p. 10 in book)

28. List 5 Career Ideas Be specific Something in advertising.
Something involving big data analytics in the marketing field, ideally on the West Coast. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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Discovery (of talents): this assessment tool (and others)
Highlight what fits on your report and ask three people about it. (pp )
Develop (by adding skills and knowledge): through study, training, practice
Application: in activities, internships, volunteer opportunities, work
(p. 10 in book)

29. Does anyone know anyone who ?
Start Networking Now
Does anyone know anyone who ?
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Discovery (of talents): this assessment tool (and others)
Highlight what fits on your report and ask three people about it. (pp )
Develop (by adding skills and knowledge): through study, training, practice
Application: in activities, internships, volunteer opportunities, work
(p. 10 in book)

30. Informational Interviews
Where to find alumni and other contacts for informational interviews
Fords Directory
Haverford & BiCo alumni groups in LinkedIn
Industry & other affinity groups in LinkedIn
“Cold Calls”
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Discovery (of talents): this assessment tool (and others)
Highlight what fits on your report and ask three people about it. (pp )
Develop (by adding skills and knowledge): through study, training, practice
Application: in activities, internships, volunteer opportunities, work
(p. 10 in book)

31. Wrap Up Hand in: your resumes for review
Homework for Wed., Oct. 5 Search for and select an internship posting that interests you
Use CareerConnect, LACN, NIC, CampusPhilly or another CCPA resources
Homework for Wed., Oct. 19
Have a “career conversation” with an alum
Attend a Fords on Friday Career Chat
Schedule an informational interview
Barb
Discovery (of talents): this assessment tool (and others)
Highlight what fits on your report and ask three people about it. (pp )
Develop (by adding skills and knowledge): through study, training, practice
Application: in activities, internships, volunteer opportunities, work
(p. 10 in book)