Thinking about a career change? Before you can decide what you want to do, you first have to discover who you are.

Assessing You will help you with this self-assessment—the first step of the career planning process. This publication will guide you through many activities that will help you identify your knowledge, skills, abilities, personal characteristics and resources.

This will, in turn, help you decide which occupations are the best match for you.

Assessing You: The first step in career planning (formerly the Skills Plus Handbook) addresses the self assessment phase of the career planning process.

It will help your client or students to

• explore their knowledge, skills and abilities that are transferable from one work role to another
• explore personal management skills such as time management, problem solving and organizational skills
• understand how their personal characteristics influence their career decisions
• identify specific work that supports their desired career goals
• identify their resources (personal, material and financial) and determine which are most helpful to their career path
• understand the importance of updating their career portfolio using newly acquired information about themselves
• connect with further information and resources

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Table Of Contents
Introduction 3
What Are Your Personal Career Assets? 4
How To Use This Book 4
Is There Retooling Without Reschooling? 5
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall...
Doing A Skills+ Inventory 6
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities 7
Transferable Skills 8
Personal Management Skills 9
Work-Specific Skills 11
Activity #1: Skills Sampler 12
Activity #2: Occupational/Work Profiles 17
Personal Characteristics 19
Temperament 19
Characteristic Approaches And Actions 21
Activity #3: I Know Someone Who... 22
Activity #4: Storytelling 24
Activity #5: Life Influences 26
Resources 27
Unique Life Experiences 28
Educational And Training Activities 28
Support Systems 29
Material Resources 31
Financial Resources 31
Activity #6: Resources And Riches 32
Passion 33
Activity #7: The Loves Of Your Life:
A walk down memory lane 36
Activity #8: Gazing Into The Crystal Ball 39
Activity #9: The Life I Want 40
Repackaging Your Resources 42
Your Career Portfolio 45
Conclusion 47
Personal Assets Summary 48

Introduction
Finding work and deciding what to do next in your career are complex processes. It takes preparation to thrive, rather than just survive, in these constantly changing times.

That means putting some thought and effort into identifying and recording your personal career assets and keeping your eyes open for different ways to use them. Then, whatever happens in your life or at work, it will be easier for you to navigate your way successfully.

This handbook will help you determine who you are, what you can do and what you want to achieve. Thus prepared, you will be able to quickly take stock of your personal career assets when you face a career decision, see what uses your assets can be put to and apply them to a new line of work or even an entirely new way of working. ...

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