TIP: Your Professional Portfolio

You can now access the Professional Portfolio ideas for career fields in Human Resources and Administrative support via the Academic Affairs UExplore website.

Start by entering the site: http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/staffhr/uexplore/2008.htm
Search by UExplore session topic/date
Locate the last bullet item to find the "Professional Portfolio Ideas" for that career field

There are two downloadable versions:

• Word 97-2003 version---so you can add ideas
• PDF version

If you have new ideas like Jill mentioned at last month's meeting (about volunteering), please let me know so I can keep our ideas growing.

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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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Going Continental

Get ready for a walk on the lighter side with a continental breakfast treats on Wednesday morning. We'll be serving up a scrumptious array of:
* breakfast pastries
* muffins
* bagels
* fresh seasonal fruit display
* spreads: cream cheese, butter, and jam
* orange juice
* Starbucks coffee (regular or decaf)
* Numi organic teas
* Hot cocoa assortment

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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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January 21st Agenda