It's All About....Me!

Finding the Right Path for Yourself

Colloquium I

Do Now (20 minutes): 

1. Log onto What's Next Illinois and login to your account. (username and password: cps and your ID# for example: cps12345678)
2. Click on the "Career Planning" page and then on the "Learn About Yourself" tab.  
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page under "Digging Deeper" and take the Learning Styles Assessment and answer all 44 questions to learn more about your Learning Styles 

Begin a new Google Drive Word document and copy and paste your results.  Save the document as Exploring What's Next Illinois.  In the document, answer the questions below:

• Are you more active or reflective?
• Are you more sensing or intuitive?
• Are you more visual or verbal?
• Are you more sequential or global?

Part I: Class Discussion (25 Minutes): 

What does all of this mean?  Click on the link at the bottom of the pages that says "Learning Style Descriptions"

As a class, read through this document.  What does this mean for you?  Did you score high (9-11) or low (1-3) on the scale?  

In your Word document, write down 4 things you can do to help yourself according to the way you learn.  

For example: "According to the results I am more of an active learner, so I know that I need to study in a group in order for me to retain the information.  I won't get material if I can't do a hands on project to understand it."

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Colloquium II

Part II: Exploring What's Next Illinois (45 minutes):

If you're logged off, log back onto What's Next Illinois and login to your account. 

Choose 2 of the surveys from the section "Learn About Yourself"---You will have 40 minutes to complete this part of class, so be sure to plan your time accordingly and only take surveys that will fit into the 40 minute time frame.

If you want to figure out what your interests are take Interest Profiler

Want to find out which career cluster might be right for you? take the Career Cluster Survey

If you want to match skills to careers, take Basic Skills Survey

Want to know which skills can lead to new opportunities? take Transferable Skills Checklist

Discover your career interests, take The Career Key

Want to know what values match certain career options?  Take Work Values Sorter

Be sure to RECORD any and all results from the surveys because you will need to reference them going forward.  

Part III: TALK TO EACH OTHER!!! (20 minutes)

What did you learn about yourself from taking these surveys?   Pretend you are on an interview for your dream job.  Talk to the person next to you and discuss the following questions and why you would be right for the job.

Questions (please record on word doc):

What did you learn about yourself that makes you qualified for the position?  

How do your interests align with your career?  

Did you learn anything about yourself that you hadn't thought about before?  

Homework

Visit this webpage on typical interview questions from monster.com, a career website that helps candidates prepare for interviews, narrrow down careers, explore their strengths and weakness and gives general career advice.

Choose 7-10 questions from the list provided and answer them in your word document under a section entitled "Homework: monster.com interview questions".  Make sure you thoroughly answer the questions....the more you think about it now the more prepared you'll be when you have your first interview! 

Send the entire document (including your class work and homework) entitled "Exploring What's Next Illinois" to your Workplace Learning teacher.