C & C CAREER & COMPETENCE

CAREER COACHING GROUP

Session 1Session 1Getting started: getting to know each other and career planning

Milja Tuomaala & Tiina Hämäläinen, University of Oulu, VALOA-project Milja Tuomaala & Tiina Hämäläinen, University of Oulu, VALOA-project

INTRODUCTIONS – GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER

1. Where do you come from? -Put yourself to the world map…

…2. Who are you? What brings you

here?

NOTE:

Job seeking process during C&C group;

Finding interesting job announcementsChoosing one, which you really find interesting Preparing application + CV for that one particular job Interview simulations for this job

Start keeping your eyes open for open vacancies!

RULES, IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES

Sincerity, openness Confidentiality Commitment Active participation Responsibility Equality

…What else?

EXERCISE 1.1 REMEMBERING MY FUTURE

The exercise is found on SlideShare;http://www.slideshare.net/VALOA/documents

(C&C training material)

”Every student can have a career in the future,

but not every student is aware of the possibility that they can

shape their careers in the future”

Mark L. Savickas

WHAT IS A CAREER?

1. Series of jobs2. Progress, vertical movement3. Profession, movement between certain kind of tasks4. Individual, sequential choises – life career5. Self-satisfying progress and professional development6. Growth in competence, skills, know-how and expertice7. Development process of professional identity (or even

personality)

Career Services, University of Oulu

CAREER PLANNING – WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

GOALS FOR CAREER PLANNING

Enhancing self-knowledge Clarifying one’s own interests and goals Increasing goal-orientation Defining study- and career plans Increasing motivation Improving job seeking skills

HIT-AND-MISS OR MASTER PLAN?

Making choices

Building expertise

Mastering one’s own know-how –knowledge, skills, learning ability

Creating potential for coincidences

Building expertise from experienceCareer Services, University of Oulu

CAREER DEVELOPMENT VS. CAREER MANAGEMENT

Career developmentLife-long development process, which includes different

work roles and movement from one role to another

Career management Target-oriented and conscious activities in individual’s

careerCareer skills

International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance

”CAREER BEHAVIOUR”

= action related to one’s own career and professional goals

Inner Pull-factors; values, personal meanings and experiences…

Social Push-factors; raising from culture and surroundings, role-determined attitudes related to gender, profession and positions…

Personal factors; traits, personality, self-direction, self-respect, self-cocept…

Satu Lähteenmäki

KNOWING YOURSELF AND PLANNING YOUR CAREER

DOING THINGS

Knowing DoingKnowing Doing

Career Services, University of Oulu

CAREER PLANNING AS KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING

The Pyramid of Information Processing Domains

Thinking about my

decision making

Knowing how I make decisions

Knowing about myself

Knowing about my options

Metacognitions

Decision-Making Skills

Self-Knowledge Options Knowledge

Gary W. Peterson, James P. Sampson & Robert C. Reardon

Starting point

Family, relationships, studying, work history, goals

Work life knowledge

Professions, branch, Competence requirements

Information Processing

Action Plan

Setting and specifying your goalsSetting smaller steps towards your goalsConcrete plan how to achieve your goals

- What skills and experience do I need, how and when do I get those..?

Updating your plan

Self-knowledge

Competence, personality, values, interests, resources, health

CAREER PLANNING

Career Services, University of Oulu

EXERCISE 1.2 MAP OF WORK LIFE

Researching work life…

Work history Competences Visions of the future Emotions, values, attitudes

The exercise is found on SlideShare;http://www.slideshare.net/VALOA/documents

(C&C training material)

MY GOALS FOR THIS CAREER GROUP

Development of career skills

My development as ”career researcher”

ASSIGNMENT FOR OUR NEXT C&C MEETING

”A challenging situation”

For next week’s meeting come up with a challenging situation from studies / work / hobbies that you managed to overcome.

Try to figure out a situation when you really had to work hard to overcome the challenge.

Prepare to describe the situation and how you managed to get through it.