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!