Credit for classes

Did you get credit for your UExplore classes?

Altogether, you should have gotten credit for these Career Connection and Staff Ed classes:
Campus Resources/Tools for Success
Career Planning
Assessing Your Transferable Skills

Also, for these Career Field Overview and Career Panel presentations:
Human Resources
Administrative Support
Student Affairs
Financial Administration
Academic Personnel

Please check your enrollment credits and let me know if you did not get credit for these sessions

Jam-packed March 18th!

Does time really fly when you have a good time?

Well, then I must be experience "E-L-A-T-I-O-N!" I can't believe we're going to back together on Wednesday.

And, boy oh boy, it's a jam-packed schedule....check it out!

Setting Goals

Setting Goals was the name of the game at Wednesday, February 18th's UExplore session. Claire Solario returned as a featured guest presenter and laid out a few great tips/tricks to help us:

1) lay out short- and long-term goals
2) prioritize those goals
3) be prepared to take action and face road blocksOne of the activities involved a stream-of-consciousness brainstorming session where we wrote down any and all goals we had in the categories: physical/health, family, socially, mental/intellect, financial, vocational, spiritual, other.Jane Peterson, Ricardo Escalante, and Brian Pierini thought critically about their goals.Wow! And what a lot of goals we had. How could we possibly accomplish all of these goals?
One way to prioritize is through "tournamenting". With tournamenting, UExplore participants made forced choices. Pitting one goal against another, the participants had to choose the goal that was more important. After doing this over and over again, the participants would end up with a few of the most important goals.

For some in the session, tournamenting was a useful tool for honing down objectives and taking selective action on the ones that mattered most.

Survey Monkey's Itchin' For Ya...

All of your opinions are important and help shape our program.

Please consider answering both of these surveys by today.

Career Connection: Goal Setting by Claire Solario
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hOUzcrFtGkCEELMuB6ULKw_3d_3d

Financial Administration Overview & Career Panel Presentation http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qLUzu3TSuTBZW3zKAS_2fMuA_3d_3d

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TIP: Get funding for career development training?

I love the Staff Equal Opportunity Enrichment Program (SEOEP)! And, now it can be your best friend too!

The Staff Equal Opportunity Enrichment Program (SEOEP) program provides individual awards up to $500 for training activities to help cover tuition/ book expenses for career development activities.

While the application period is not open yet, I feel it in my bones that it's going to happen really soon. So, why not get a head start by perusing the application requirements and selection criteria....
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Survey Monkey!

Please consider answering both of these surveys by Friday, February 20th.

Tell us what you thought
about yesterday’s presentations focusing on
Goal Setting and the
Financial Administration career field.

Career Connection: Goal Setting by Claire Solario
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hOUzcrFtGkCEELMuB6ULKw_3d_3d

Financial Administration Overview & Career Panel Presentation
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qLUzu3TSuTBZW3zKAS_2fMuA_3d_3d

TIP: The S.T.A.R Method

You all have great ideas!

In the evaluations for last month's session, one of you pointed out that using the S.T.A.R. Method would be a good technique for answering questions during an interview.

• SITUATION - give an example of a SITUATION you were involved in that resulted in a positive outcome
• TASK - describe the TASKS involved in that situation
• ACTION - talk about the various ACTIONS involved in the situation's task
• RESULTS - what RESULTS directly followed because of your actions

As an extension of that idea, it's also a good tip to use the S.T.A.R. method for your professional portfolio. For example, start by anticipating a question you might be asked in the interview for that career field. Then, think about an experience that answers that question. Try to describe the experience using the S.T.A.R Method. Write it down using the S.T.A.R method. You don't need to write down a long narrative; just write down enough to help jog your memory.

The S.T.A.R. Method is a way for you to effectively respond to behavioral interviewing.
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Online Enrollment for Multiple UExplore Sessions

Good morning!

I hope you all had lovely weekends and are as excited as myself about tomorrow’s presentations featuring the topics:

• Goal Setting
• Financial Administration Career Field Overview
• Financial Administration Career Panel

I’ve included a few links for upcoming UExplore events in February, March, and April.

Please register for all of them.

February
Goal Setting: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XCGSETUXPL
Financial Admin: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XUXPLORFIN

March
Academic Personnel: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XUEPLORACD
Your Listening Profile: Link is coming soon

April
Networking: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XNITPSUXPL
Program Admin: https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XUXPLORPRG


***If these links do not work for you, please just sign in on the hardcopy sheet so that we can record your attendance
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This is not homework

If you'd like to look at the Career Connection exercises ahead of time....

well,

then,

you are in luck!

I've posted the Career Connection handout for the topic Setting Goals and the Setting Goals PowerPoint Presentation on the Academic Afairs UExplore website

All in all, there are 7 pages of activities in the handout to help you plan your short- and long-term professional goals. The subject headings for these pages include:

• Identifying Your Values
• Identifying Your Future Accomplishments
• S.M.A.R.T Goal-Setting
• Goal Activity Worksheet (Qty: 3)

Getting a taste of these handouts before the next session may be your cup of tea if you're one of those folks who like to be "in the know" or enjoy having more time to complete a task.

This is definitely not homework--just a proactive response to meet the needs for various types of learners.

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Motivated Skills? Holland Typography?

Sheila Manalo, Jill Hartmann, Tehseen Lazzouni, Michelle Viernes, Laurie Tanjuaquio, Josie Alaoen, and Ricardo Escalante try their hand at this card sort. It was another exercise for the participants to figure out how to leverage their strengths and apply skills that they are passionate about using.

Up close and personal, Mark Plummer, Brian Pierini, Scott Paulson, Jane Peterson, and Pat Tung see how the cards stack up in terms of their interests and abilities. As the managers of their own careers, knowing what they enjoy doing and how well they do what they enjoy is a key step in forging their career paths.

Likewise, others work through the deck. Conceptually, the "Motivated Skills Card Sort" could be evaluated in light of John L. Holland's Typography Theory.

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Assessing Your Transferrable Skills with Claire Solario

The agenda for the session included:
* Understanding the three types of skills
* How those skills fall into four subcategories
* How these skills fit into the big picture of getting the right job for you

To get down to that nitty gritty, UExplore participants made use of the "Motivated Skills Card Sort." With a deck of cards in hand, the participants were asked to look at each skill and put them in order of how much they liked/disliked using the skill and how proficient they were with that skill.


The "Motivated Skills Card Sort" was an exercise that allowed participants to determine if those skills were "motivated skills", "survival skills", "areas for development", or "red flag areas".

In "the big picture", the right job would align with your motivated skills and with your values.

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Things I don't believe in...

...the Tooth Fairy

...chocolate is low-fat

...i'll win the lottery

but begging?

...if it's for a good cause

Please complete your surveys for:

ASSESSING YOUR TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

with Claire Solario (January 21, 2009)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4TiEyb6tueA6_2f496pkqQUw_3d_3d

STUDENT AFFAIRS CAREER FIELD OVERVIEW & INFORMATION PANEL
with Susan Kelly, Sarah Spear-Barrett, David Robertson, and Rafael Acevedo (January 21, 2009)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xjH0D_2fx0VcaGuvzJxrdfkQ_3d_3d

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Ooh--ooh--ah--ah!

What did you think?Please let us know what you thought about today's presentations.

Your opinions count--we use your feedback to improve the Program and better meet your professional needs.


This time 'round, there's a total of TWO (2) surveys on the Survey Monkey:

ASSESSING YOUR TRANSFERABLE SKILLS with Claire Solario (January 21, 2009)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=4TiEyb6tueA6_2f496pkqQUw_3d_3d


STUDENT AFFAIRS CAREER FIELD OVERVIEW & INFORMATION PANEL
with Susan Kelly, Sarah Spear-Barrett, David Robertson, and Rafael Acevedo (January 21, 2009)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xjH0D_2fx0VcaGuvzJxrdfkQ_3d_3d

QUESTIONS???
If you have questions, just give Linda a bzzzz at ext 2-7990.

Online Enrollment for Presentations on Wednesday, Dec 17th!

Find below the online links to enroll for the Assessing Your Transferable Skills and the Student Services Career Field Overview and Career Information Panel.

By enrolling, you may receive credit for attending these presentations on your educational history recorded by Staff Education and Development.

Assessing Your Transferable Skills:
https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XTSKLLUXPL

Student Services Career Field Overview and Career Information Panel:
https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XUXPLORSTD

See you tomorrow!


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Now Download-able!

Peek-a-boo!

You can take a peek at next week's UExplore program with these fresh uploads on the Academic Affairs UExplore website: http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/staffhr/uexplore/2008.htm

There, you can download PDF versions of these January 21st UExplore presentations:

* Assessing Your Transferable Skills presented by Claire Solario
* Student Services Career Field Overview presented by Rafael Acevedo
* Student Services Career Field Overview Handouts presented by Rafael Acevedo
* Student Services Classification Matrix - Factors
* Student Services Classification Matrix - Tasks
* Student Services classes via Staff Education & Development

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SCOOP: Career Connection's Mentorship Program

It's here!

If you haven't already heard by being on the Career Connection listserve, the newly revamped website for the Mentorship Website is 'live and kickin'.

Jorge Rios, a featured UExplore guest presenter in October, manages the Mentorship Program. If your interested in being or having a mentor, give this website a try and follow up with Jorge to find the right match.

The original email is pasted below.
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Hello from Career Connection!

As you may know, Career Connection offers a Mentorship Program to UCSD staff who are looking to improve their technical skills, increase self-confidence and organizational visibility intended for retention and promotion. This program also benefits mentors as they gain coaching skills and the satisfaction of sharing their knowledge, skills, and experience.

If you are interested in becoming a mentor or mentee, please visit our newly launched Mentorship Website and create an online profile so that we can identify someone who most closely fits your occupational goals and objectives.

For those who have been a mentor/mentee in the past and would like to continue, please create a new online profile as well.


Thank you,
Jorge Rios
Kelly Hermanson
Christine Xu
Career Connection
career@ucsd.edu

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UExplore makin' the news

UExplore was recently highlighted in Career Connection's year-end message to its members and affiliates.

The message went out to over 2,000 UC San Diego community members.

The original message was sent out via email, and we've put up a link to the message on our UExplore website: http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/staffhr/uexplore/attachments/ProgramActivities/2008/12/CrCnxn0809Annc.pdf

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January 21st Agenda

Career Planning with Barry Niman

Barry Niman and Tehseen Lazzouni discuss the merits of keeping a job journal. Barry introduced the idea of keeping a job journal and said that data from the job journal can be used:
* to identify present skills and those for future development
* as a basis for upgrading your job description
* to identify what you like and dislike about your job tasks and about your work environment
* as information to include in your performance evaluation

Tehseen has been steadily keeping a job journal and already found it useful as a tool for self-evaluation and performance review. Macy Huynh, Christina Knerr, and Alexis O'Banion teamed up in a small group exercise. They each had 30 seconds to describe what they liked most about their job.

Meanwhile, Brian Pierini and Mark Plummer did the same as they talked about what they liked most in their jobs at Geisel Library and CalIT2, respectively.

Scott Paulson, Jane Peterson, and Richard Baran pondered the same question. Each work in different areas within Academic Affairs, so they benefitted from each others' experiences working in the Libraries, Stuart Collection, and UC Extension.

Afterwards, results were shared by volunteers, and we found some common themes to what we find most enjoyable in our jobs:

1) people--working with others, meeting new people, having one-on-one interaction

2) impact--being helpful, accomplishing goals

3) freedom and independence--in work responsibilities, to take initiative, etc

The list could've gone on and on. This is just how far we got in about 5 minutes!

Ooh-ooh-ah-ah!

Every one of your opinions count!

Check out Survey Monkey, and let us know what you thought about yesterday's workshops.

CAREER PLANNING with Barry Niman (December 17, 2008)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=T0zEZD6Lv_2fpBE1QlvwgioQ_3d_3d

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT CAREER FIELD OVERVIEW & INFO PANEL with Bev Strobl, Shirley Higgins, Mo Latimer (December 17, 2008)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AUqK6F2yUfQgkHSbapDw2A_3d_3d

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