Portable job skills

In class today we learned about how to make an appropriate job resume. For example what to include such as education, experience, skills, certifications, licenses, etc. Also we learned about transferable/portable job skills which basically are skills that you can take and put to good use at another job. Some portable job skills are computer skills, work habits, social skills, etc.

I also read some portable job skills articles and discovered that woman who change jobs are more likley to succeed in thier new firm than most men. Reason for being is because unlike men, women build their success on external contacts, meaning they develope good relationships from outside sources and clients rather than in the work enviorment. Women put mort thought into changing their jobs such as cultural fit and values other than men due to the reason of how limited usually the women keep their bond from men workers.

Another article i read said that most jobs you have to depend on the job more for the success rather than the portable skills that you have. For example if you are in a job that requires you to work with colleagues rather than outside sources shows less effectiveness at a job. It may be difficult sometime for you to seperate your skills to the performance of your enviorment at the job. Getting a balnce of the two is difficult because most times you need depend on your work within an organization.

In conclusion, in this class i learned skills to make a better presentable resume for a job and also how crucial or minimal your portable skills can be of value in certain job firms. Whether of sexuality or just of company values or enviorment.

Turning points chapter 2

Chapter 2 emphasizes on identifying your values and personality type. It helps to teach you how to describe yourself in ways to make good choices towrds a career. It puts in to consideration the personality identity data base which consist of four dimensions of ourselves:Values, Personality types, Interests, and Skills. Alll these play a major role in choosing a career. In some career making decisions you may have only 1 of the four dimensions, although you may have that 1 dimension of interests in that career you must take in also that the other three dimensions do not go hand in hand with your interest, leading to the question will you be happy working that career for the rest of your life?

This chapter did assisit me to choose my career goal much more wisely, and to really look at myself and my values and see what job is most compatable with who i am, even though sometimes i feel like i cant even give a solid answer to that question. If i could, i think i would know what kind of career i wanted to pursue already. The Holland and Myers test help to see what jopbs are best compatible with your personality, but in the end, it is all up to you whetehr that is the right career decision for you or not.

The activities that i chose to do where the work value survey and the see yourself from different perspectives. The work values i chose as the highest were self-improvement, achievment, physical activity adventure, risk excitement. This helps somewhat in deciding on a career because i know i dont want to be sitting at a desk all day, i'd rather being doing something physical or more sociable. The seeing yourself from different perspective helps to visualize yourself froma third person view, and see what otehrs think of you . It makes you think wheter looking at yourself in this view, do you see anything about yourself that an employer would see as a potential employee? Overall this chapter assisted in putting my values and what i have to offer for a job in place a little more, even though i still dont know what career i want to pursue.

Personality test

My reaction to the personality test was good. I thought that the test was pretty accurate with the percentages that came out. It showed some career options for the percentages of your results. Also showed what celebrities also came out with the same results as you. The site had a link to show you what schools specialize in the career that the test showed most suitable for you.