Overview

This session will consider the self-assessment element of the DOTIS employability skills development framework we introduced to you in session 1. We focus particularly on how self-assessment can help you manage your career so that you make well informed career choices.

Self-assessment means being able to realistically assess your personality type, understand what motivates you in terms of your work values and personal ethics and work out what skills you possess. Assessing yourself in this way enables you to match yourself more effectively to possible career areas.

What is in this session?

• PowerPoint presentation – Introduction: Getting started - Powerpoint
• Skills - Exercise
• Motivation - Exercise
• Personality - Exercise
• Pulling the pieces together - Exercise

What you will learn?

• • To understand your personality type and the types of work you might be suited to
• • About what motivates you by assessing your work values and personal ethics
• • To assess your skills in terms of your strengths and weaknesses
• • To begin to match these elements to careers ideas