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This document provides guidance to help students find their passions and career fit. It instructs them to identify their strengths and weaknesses, consider different career skills, and complete a questionnaire to discover their passions. The document also discusses organizational fit and encourages students to think about their work preferences, values, and personality type in order to determine a good career path.

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Finding Your Passion Powerpoint

This document provides guidance to help students find their passions and career fit. It instructs them to identify their strengths and weaknesses, consider different career skills, and complete a questionnaire to discover their passions. The document also discusses organizational fit and encourages students to think about their work preferences, values, and personality type in order to determine a good career path.

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ESK 1

Session 2
Finding your Passions(Part 1)
Your Passions…..

• Everyone needs to find their “tennis ball”

• The thing that makes them want to run towards their goals!
TODAYS SESSION
At the end of today’s session you will be able to;

• Describe your strengths and weakness’s

• Tell someone else about types of skills needed for the workplace

• Complete a questionnaire to help you “Find your Passion”


STRENGTHS
• Usually the things that we like doing

• Can be natural skills or skills that we have worked on to


develop

• Important to know what we are good at when we make


choices for our Career

• Important to know what we need to work on to reach our


goals
Weaknesses
Usually things that we don’t like doing

• Area’s that we need to work a little harder on


to achieve our goals
• Areas that we need to do some development on – weaken our
weaknesses!

Make a list of your Strengths and Weaknesses


Career Skills
Types of Skills

• Technical Skills - IT, Databases,Finance, Maths, Science,


Operating Equipment

• Transferable Skills – Communication, Time Management,


Analytical Processes, Leadership, Delegation

• “Soft Skills” – highly sought after in graduates


Soft Skills
• Soft skills are the ability to work with others, build relationships,
your attitude to life and work and how you organise yourself.

• During your ESK 2 Unit we will work on Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognise and manage your


own and others emotions
When you graduate …….

• Would you like to have your own company or work for


yourself?

• What sort of company would you like to work for? Large


organisation/Small organisation?

• What sort of work is important to you? Or your community?


Think about ……….
• Are you an introvert or extrovert?
• Do you like working on your own or with a team?
• Do you like to work from instructions or are you creative?
• Do you like to be creative with your ideas
• Are you an entrepreneur? Leader?
• Do you like helping people? Building? Planning?
Organisational Fit

• How well a person fits into an organisation, it’s culture,


values and ways of working.

• Employers can train and develop job skills but not values and
personality, we are all different.

• What values are you drawn to and what’s your deal


workplace?
16 Personalities
• Complete the quiz
• Read the information on your profile
• Was it accurate?

• https://www.16personalities.com
Activity
• In groups make a list of qualities and values that you would
like to have from your future employer?

• What will be important to you in the future?

• Work in Groups and present back for Discussion


Find your Passion Questionnaire

• Complete your questionnaire and submit online before next


weeks class

• 25% of your overall mark

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