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You, Graduate School, and Your Career: Making the Connections

You, Graduate School, and Your Career: Making the Connections. Pathways to Success : Graduate Student Professional Development Summit February 13, 2012 Janet Sheppard, PhD, Counselling Services. Learning Objectives:. Understand the context of career at this moment in history;

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You, Graduate School, and Your Career: Making the Connections

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  1. You, Graduate School, and Your Career: Making the Connections Pathways to Success: Graduate Student Professional Development Summit February 13, 2012 Janet Sheppard, PhD, Counselling Services

  2. Learning Objectives: • Understand the context of career at this moment in history; • Identify the essential role of self awareness in your career development; • Reflect on your unique interests, skills and values; • Describe some critical elements of your successful career (core motivators); • Analyze your graduate experience for highlights, learning goals and connections to your career motivators; • Recognize how to research career possibilities and turn them into opportunities (networking and informational interviews) • Identify UVic resources to help you achieve your goals

  3. The Changing World of Work • ‘Global networked knowledge economy’ is increasingly complex and uncertain; • Change is speeding up; • More change and uncertainty = more freedom; • You will have more career-related decisions to make than any previous generation

  4. YOU are a career manager • Your unique qualities, skills, knowledge and interests help identify where you will THRIVE; • Academic and work experience, enjoyable activities and accomplishments provide important clues to your Core Motivators.

  5. Motivators: • (Ian Robertson, UVic Coop & Career Services) 3.Lifestyle 2.Work Environment 1.Core

  6. Enjoyable Activities/Accomplishments Activity

  7. Identifying More Core Values… • Student Transition Services website: http://transition.uvic.ca, Values Exercise (Senge, Smith, Roberts & Weiner, 1994) to help you explore your core values in more depth

  8. Reflecting on the Core… • What parts of your present school and life activities do you thoroughly enjoy? • What do you love to do in your spare time? • What would you describe as your best qualities? • What are the first two or three sections you head for in a bookstore?

  9. Your graduate school experience: • What are you most proud of in your graduate experience? (core) • What skill(s) have you developed/used in the experience? (core) • What have you learned about yourself in your graduate experience? (core/work env/lifestyle) • What have you learned about the project or problem you are working on? (core/work env/lifestyle)

  10. What Kind of Work Environment? • Rank the following in order of their importance to you: • Setting my own schedule • Influencing others’ opinions, attitudes or actions • Variety with many changing duties • Responding to challenging situations • Making decisions based on personal judgements • Knowing exactly what is expected of me • Taking responsibility – being in control • Work requiring precision • Freely expressing ideas or emotions • Working closely with people • Working alone

  11. What type of Lifestyle? • Lifestyle is that which your career allows you to do in other areas of your life. E.g., money, time, travel, relationships, hobbies = work/life balance; • How much time are you willing to devote to your career so it balances with the rest of your life? • What kind of income do you need to have in order to support the kind of life that you want to build?

  12. Networking and Research • What might you do to relate your values, interests, skills, and graduate experience to your career...to help you find your dream job? • *Research and participate in professional development opportunities; • Attend conferences; • Join professional associations (attend meetings); • Ask people you know for names of people you should/could talk to; • Ask for and conduct informational interviews (lived experience research)

  13. E.Q.= Emotional Intelligence • What do all of these forms of research have in common? • Self knowledge • Relationship skills • "The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity."--Keith Ferazzi

  14. Seek Out & Use Resources • Counselling Services: • Thesis Completion Program • *Graduate Student Career Exploration Group • Individual and Group Counselling • Coop Education & Career Services: • Drop-in sessions, resume support, career coaching, free services after degree completion!

  15. Thank You! • To contact me: • Dr. Janet Sheppard, Counselling Services • University Centre, B270 • 250-721-8341 • jsheppa1@uvic.ca

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