The versatility of MBTI!

Courtesy of Carol Schrammel--our UExplore facilitator for our April 15, 2009 session--we bring to you a neat, little tidbit about how the MBTI is being used by Champlain College in Burlington, VT to help incoming freshman, resident assistants, and other officials to establish rules for a shared room and deal with potential conflicts.

http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2008/12/12/myersbriggs

Champlain College began requiring all of its incoming students to complete the MBTI before arriving on campus as part of a newly launched “life skills” program.

While the students are not informed of their individual results when completing roommate agreements, they are asked to self-identity with their perceived personality when getting to know their roommates.

Then, later on in the semester, if conflict arises between roommates, this information can be used by resident assistants to mediate a resolution.

According to a representative of the publishing company for the MBTI, “The MBTI helps people understand their differences and appreciate them. It’s not about saying this person does this correctly or incorrectly. If you have this preference and I have another preference, how can we live together?”

What do you think about using the MBTI in this way?

Would you have wanted to know this information as a freshman?

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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!

Now Download-able!

Woo hoo!

You can now download PDF versions of December 17th's UExplore workshop presentations:

* Career Planning presented by Barry Niman
* Administrative Support Career Field Overview presented by Mo Latimer
* Administrative Support Career Information Panel presented by Bev Strobl, Shirley Higgins, and Mo Latimer

You can also access UExplore's customized handouts about additional classes you may take to learn more about administrative support:
* Administrative Support classes via Staff Education & Development

Just visit: http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/staffhr/uexplore/2008.htm

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Happy Holidays

Happiest of holidays from your friends at UExplore!

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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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Did you enroll?

Just a click away....

Career Planning:
https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XCPLANUXPL

Admin Support
https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XUXPLORADM

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What questions do you have brewing for our panelists this month?

We're featuring 3 speakers this month. They are professional experts who hold positions at the top of their field and come from different areas of campus.

We've got Bev Strobl from the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs; Shirley Higgings from the Geisel Library; Mo from the Jacobs School of Engineering.

They will and share information about:
* their career path
* the work that they currently do
* the resources they accessed and the choices they made to get to where they are today
* their professional advice

Take advantage of this opportunity to ask these important players about their work in front of and behind the scenes...

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