SelfAwareness and Cultural Fit

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Self-AwarenessandCultural Fit

• Undergraduate Career Services
• Kelley School of Business
• Workshop

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Sound Understanding

• As a Job Seeker, you need a sound understanding
  of the principles of
• Creating
• Making
• Implementing Job Decisions

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Fundamental Principles

• Regardless of your experience or personal
  background, you must consider
• Self-Awareness
• Fit
• Interdependence
• Adaptability

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Self-Awareness

• You Need A Clear Picture of.
• Who You Are
• Who You Want to Become
• Career Success will stem from
• Your Strengths
• .Not Your Weaknesses

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Self-Assessment

• Helps to separate family and societal pressures
  from personal needs, desires, abilities, and
  styles.
• Passive vs. Active Role in Job Search
• Seeking to find a job that satisfies popular
  needs and desires OR
• First defining what you seek in the workplace

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Take An Active Role in Self-Assessment

• Ask yourself some probing questions that will
  help you begin the self-assessment process.
• Consider your cognitive skills
• Consider your personal and interpersonal work
  style
• Consider your outside interests and needs

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Consider Your Cognitive Style

• How do you think?
• How do you approach problems?
• Do you focus on details, systems or the big
  picture?
• Do you think in the abstract?
• Are you easily interrupted?
• How many things can you remember and attend to at
  once?
• How flexible is your thinking?
• Do you find different thought processes difficult
  to understand or enjoy?

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What is Your Personal and Interpersonal Work
Style?

• What would you consider an ideal daily routine?
• What are your best hours?
• What type of work environment do you need to be
  at your best?
• How much variety do you like or need?
• Do you like structure?
• Are you a team player or do you prefer to work
  alone?

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Explore Your OutsideInterests and Needs?

• How would you describe your lifestyle?
• Focused on work?
• Filled with many activities? Or a few?
• Do you like traveling?
• What hobbies or recreational outlets do you have?
• How often do you need them to stay refreshed?

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FIT

• Second principle is FIT.
• Using your self-awareness information to assess
  the demands and responsibilities of a particular
  job.
• The FIT between a particular job and your
  personal profile.
• Begins with questions designed to generate
  information your career goal.

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FIT Questions

• Avoid generic questions.
• Be precise to help with making a choice.
• Assess opportunities from a
• Professional standpoint and not only from a
  personal perspective.
• Retaining key elements of person/job fit.

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Manage Areas of Mis-Fit

• Build upon areas that provide a good fit.
• Manage those that do not.
• Focus on here-and-now.
• Be less concerned about the next promotion or the
  ultimate career outcome.
• Do all things extremely well.
• Establish credibility and respect.

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Interdependence

• Various conflicting aspects of life.
• Professional
• Financial
• Educational
• Physical
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• Social
• Recreational
• Intellectual

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Key to Interdependence

• Remember that they are all part of the same
  person.
• Dont close them off do not compartmentalize
  these facets of our lives.
• Recognize that each career decision will affect
  your physical, emotional, and intellectual self,
  as well as your relationships with others.
• Make decisions for the whole self.

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Adaptability

• Change comes to people and jobs in varying
  amounts over time.
• Ability to respond to these changes is
  fundamental to implementing your career
  decisions.
• Dont be too set in your ways.
• Dont be too sensitive to change.

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Keep Yourself Adaptable

• Develop a range of interests.
• Maintain a level of self-motivation.
• Follow the trends both within and outside of your
  organization.
• Readings, conversations, networking
• Articulate a set of values

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Summary

• Four principles of managing the career
  decision-making process.
• Self-Awareness
• Fit
• Interdependence
• Adaptability

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Finally

• Those who become proficient in each of these
  areas are more likely to make good career
  decisions and thrive in the years ahead.
• Good luck!