1. Career Plan- Determining Talents, Skills, and Abilities

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3. Skill Search Identify Your Skills!
One of the first steps to take when embarking on a job search is identifying the skills you have that employers need. Knowing what you have to offer gives you the ability to sell yourself to employers and convince them to hire you. You have so many skills! Now you need to identify them.
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4. Basic Skills
Developed capacities that facilitate learning or the more rapid acquisition
Of knowledge
Have students name some of the basic skills an employer would want.
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5. Active Learning
Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision making
Ask students to give an example of actively learning on the job and why it is important.
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6. Actively Listening
Giving full attention to what other people are saying, and taking time to understand the points being made.
Ask students to give an example of the ramifications of not actively listening when following instructions in the workplace
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7. Resource Management Skills
Developed capacities used to allocate resources efficiently
Ask class to giving examples of resource management skills in the workplace
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8. Complex Problem Solving Skills
Developed capacities used to solve novel, ill-defined problems in complex, real-world settings
Have student discuss real life work problems, such as a customer complaint
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9. The preferred way in which an individual gains knowledge
Learning Styles
The preferred way in which an individual gains knowledge
When we learn, we take information differently. There are three main types of learning styles.
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10. Auditory Visual Tactile/Kinesthetic
Auditory-The way we learn by hearing. Visual-The way we learn by seeing. Tactile/Kinesthetic-The way we learn by touching or moving
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11. O*NET OnLine Skills Search
Go to take the online Skill Search assessment and identify careers that match your skill sets.
Complete chart listed under Documents and Examples tab on our website listing information for the careers matched based upon results.
Auditory-The way we learn by hearing. Visual-The way we learn by seeing. Tactile/Kinesthetic-The way we learn by touching or moving
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