Professional & Organizational Development

V0213: Career Transition Workshop: Assessing Your Strengths

Description:

Discover the secrets to your past successes and how to use this knowledge to communicate your value to future employers. In this workshop we will:

• Analyze your past experiences for clues about your skills and strengths and discover how they provide keys to future success.
• Identify the three types of skills and discuss the difference between a skill and a strength.
• Learn how your strengths can be used in any job or field of interest.
• Illustrate how your strengths can be articulated to employers in a job search.
• Describe the sweet spot between being employed and being successful.
• Determine how to know when you've found the right employment match.

Find out about other free and fee-reduced resources for UW employees facing layoffs or position reductions:
http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/roles/ee/layoff/resources/jobsearchprep.html

Prerequisite:

Please click on the link below to print out the pre-work exercise for Assessing Your Strengths. Complete the exercise and bring it with you on the day of the workshop.http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/pod/docs/ays_prework

Course Fee:
Free