Identifying Your Skills

Unit 2: Skills

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Identifying Your Skills!

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Imagine you are outside of school or work. What do you like to do with your free time?

A hobby is an activity that you do for pleasure when you are not working. Hobbies enhance your personal growth and offer a source of enjoyment and relaxation.

For example, hobbies often involve social interactions. You might join a club or group as part of your hobby, which means you are a part of a community of like-minded individuals who share your interests. This can lead to the formation of meaningful relationships and social connections.

Hobbies outside school and work can also help prevent burnout by getting you to step away from responsibilities and recharge your mental and emotional batteries.

Hobbies!!!

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What are Mr Cole's top 3 hobbies that he does outside of working at CCA? (Take a guess)

Coaching Basketball

Dungeons and Dragons

Cat Dad!!

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If a person's hobbies include taking pictures and creating visual art, which career skills are they most likely developing?

• Creativity

• Teamwork

• organization

• attention to detail

Knowing your skills is a fundamental part of career planning. Understanding your skills will ultimately help you find fulfillment and success in your chosen career.

You may already know some of your skills, but connecting them to a career can sometimes be difficult. Today, you will take a self-assessment to help connect skills to a future career.

You will take a skills matcher assessment to discover which careers match your skills. The Skills Matcher from CareerOneStop will review 40 skills and create a list of career matches based on your response.

The question to the right includes a description of the different levels of experience that would align best with the category of beginner, skilled, or expert in the particular skill of administration and management. You will decide where your skills best fall on the scale for each question.  

After rating 40 skills, you will be given a list of careers that match those skills. Your list of careers is ranked in order of how well they match your skills. You will be able to sort the careers depending on the amount of education you would like to receive. Move on to find out how.

Rating Scales

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A wage is the amount of money that a worker is paid based on how much they work. So, an annual wage is how much money a worker makes in a year.

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Wages

Wages are important to keep in mind when choosing a job because they influence many parts of your life, such as:

• where you live, like paying for rent or a mortgage;

• how you get around, such as car costs or public transportation; and

• your ability to enjoy leisure activities.

It is important to have a wage that supports your current needs and helps you save for the long term. This means being able to cover your bills while also saving for retirement and emergencies. Achieving wages high enough for all of this may not happen right away, but planning for a career with advancement and growth opportunities will help.

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Why is it important to consider the annual wage when choosing a job?

• Annual Wages change how much you use social media

• Annual wages influence your housing and transportation

• Annual wages impact how often you read a book

• Annual wages influence your favorite food preference

More job opportunities are very likely in the future

Bright Outlook

An average outlook means that a small number of job opportunities will be available in the future.

​​Average Outlook

​A below-average outlook means that new job opportunities are less likely in the future.

​​Below-Average Outlook

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Match each of the descriptions with the corresponding category of career outlook.

• Bright Outlook

• Average Outlook

• Below-Average Outlook

alot of new jobs

modest # of jobs

new jobs less likely

• alot of new jobs

• modest # of jobs

• new jobs less likely

Choosing a career with a bright outlook is more likely to offer job security since the industry is growing. Still, while a favorable job outlook is important, it is not the only factor to consider. If you have interests, skills, and values that better align with a career with an average or below-average outlook, you should still check it out! Ultimately, a successful and fulfilling career combines a positive job outlook with your aspirations and abilities.

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Which three skills did you rate the highest on? (There are no right or wrong answers)

If you look at your top three skills and the suggested careers, you will notice that you may not have all the skills necessary to excel in this career. It is okay to initially have only some of the skills needed for a particular career. Jobs often involve a learning curve. You will acquire many necessary skills through education, training, and on-the-job experience.

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How much education did you indicate that you were willing to get for your career?

• High school diploma or equivalent

• Bachelors Degree

• Associates Degree (2 year degree or shorter)

• Master degree or higher

• some high school or college

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Out of the 10 careers listed; which three did you feel would be the best fit for you? How did you choose them? Did the annual wage or outlook impact your choices?