Career Decisions Bell Ringersfor September 8th, 2010

Name one category of personality traits in an individual and an example

Personality can be identified using personality what

Name one category of learning styles and an example

Career Decision Objectives forSeptember 8th, 2010

Understand what personal and transferable skills are

Analyze what skills and abilities say about who you are

What is a Skill?

The book Exploring Careers defines a skill as the ability to perform a task due to training and experience

The book Learning for Earning defines a skill as abilities that result from education and training

Ask Yourself….

Are people born with skills?

Can skills be learned?

Why are some skills easier for people to do than others?

Two Main Categories of Skills

1. Personal Skills

2. Transferable Skills

Personal Skills

Mental Skills (examples: creative writing, mathematics, memory)

Physical Skills (examples: gymnastics, aerobic exercise)

Social Skills (example: conversion)

Transferable Skills

1. Communication skills: speaking and writing2. Listening skills: sending and receiving

messages3. Problem-solving skills: handling conflicts4. Technology skills: computer knowledge5. Decision-making skills: making wise

decisions6. Organizing and planning skills: time

management7. Teamwork skills: working with team members8. Adaptability skills: adjusting to change

Get in Groups People!!!!

Each group will be assigned one of the transferable skills

Each group is to define and give examples of their assigned transferable skill

Each group will present their examples

The Class will give other examples of the skill

On a Sheet of Notebook Paper…

Complete the statement:

“Knowing my skills helps me know myself better because……”