Distinctive skill as a part of career projects
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This document discusses career counseling for students and developing distinctive skills. It outlines the theoretical framework of career counseling, noting theories on traits, decision making, and professional capital. The biggest challenge for counselors is shaping proactive attitudes in students towards their career paths. A distinctive skill is one that makes an individual stand out from others in their field through unique knowledge, experience, or training. The document also discusses how counselors can help students develop basic, professional, and distinctive skills to succeed in their careers.
Distinctive skill as a part of career projects
- 1. Małgorzata Rosalska Distinctive skill as a part of career projects
- 2. OUTLINE
- 3. Outline ¨ Theoretical framework of career counseling for students (just a little bit) ¨ The biggest challenge: attitudes students towards professional and educational career path ¨ What is a distinctive skill and how can we develop it? ¨ Change in perceiving the role of a career counsellor
- 5. Two basic assumptions ¨ Students have an individual right to guidance on career but they have no obligation (and sometimes they have no need) ¨ Main challenge: attitudes, believes & motivation
- 6. Theoretical foundation: ¨ F. Parsons, J. Holland: - trait-factor theory, ¨ V. Peavy, M. Savickas, N. Amundson, J. Krumboltz: - decision making strategies, models for constructivist guidance, handling transitions ¨ A. Hargreaves, M. Fullan: - professional capital
- 7. Professional capital ¨ Human Capital ¨ Social Capital ¨ Decisional Capital PC = f (HC, SC, DC)
- 8. Human capital ¨ A sense of purpose in life ¨ Hope ¨ Self-esteem ¨ Identity ¨ Possibilities ¨ Individual career prospects ¨ Sense of achievement ¨ Motivation along the way
- 9. Social capital ¨ Network ¨ Family
- 10. Decision capital ¨ Abilities ¨ Motivation ¨ Activity
- 11. The crucial question for me is: How to build and develop student’s responsibility for their own career path?
- 12. Shaping proactive attitudes towards professional career
- 13. ¨ term 'attitude' is common for many scientific disciplines. It is analyzed in psychology, pedagogy, sociology and ethics. The fact that the term 'attitude' is used in very different contexts, in both scientific and colloquial language, makes this analysis difficult.
- 14. ¨ Term ‘attitude’ is also often used with evaluative adjectives which gives it a normative character ¨ we can say an active, passive, responsible, pro- health, patriotic, exemplary attitude.
- 15. definition of an attitude ¨ the whole of relatively permanent predispositions to assess the subject of an attitude and reacting emotionally to it, and relatively permanent beliefs about nature and characteristics of the subject of an attitude and relatively permanent dispositions to behave towards it.
- 16. Each attitude consists of three components ¨ cognitive component ¨ affective component ¨ behavioural component
- 17. Cognitive component ¨ This knowledge can be analyzed by extent and authenticity. It can be very extensive and comprehensive or it can be slightly defined and based on the system of beliefs only with reference to particular elements of the subject of an attitude.
- 18. Cognitive component ¨ In the process of creating careers it is worth noticing and analyzing knowledge of the labour market, the world of professions, recruitment procedures and beliefs about what determines professional success.
- 19. Cognitive component ¨ It happens that students declare willingness to learn a given trade or study a particular major, but they do not have knowledge of the character of a given job, required qualifications and predispositions. ¨ It happens also that the knowledge is invalid, popular and it comes from debatable sources.
- 20. Affective component ¨ assessments ¨ opinions ¨ approaches ¨ emotions
- 21. Affective component ¨ It is a very important component. ¨ It can manifest itself as intellectual assessments and opinions showing more or less reliable arguments and also as emotions towards the subject of an attitude.
- 22. Affective component ¨ These emotions can be positive or negative. ¨ In the group of negative ones there should be mentioned ¤ fear, ¤ concerns, ¤ discouragement.
- 23. Affective component ¨ There are people who do not take up educational or professional challenges due to fear of failure. They have negative approaches towards the labour market and they see more threats than chances. ¨ Their decisions are determined by their opinion about their own capabilities. These opinions are created many times on the basis of comparisons with others and they are inaccurate to their actual talents, predispositions and capabilities.
- 24. Behavioural component ¨ behaviours towards the subject of an attitude. These are all predispositions to act which can be expressed as ¤ desires ¤ aspirations ¤ a sense of duty ¤ intentions.
- 25. ¨ This approach to an attitude has a huge practical advantage in creating advisory influences ¨ The influences can be aimed at goals related to ¤ developing knowledge ¤ shaping approaches and opinions ¤ developing constructive behaviours
- 26. ¨ Towards planning educational future people can choose three basic attitudes: ¤ proactive, ¤ reactive ¤ passive.
- 27. ¨ A proactive attitude is a situation when I create reality which I live in. ¨ A reactive attitude is a situation when I only answer to offers of other people, institutions, fate.
- 28. Is it really so that people make a decision based on facts?
- 29. Cognitive component ¨ Knowledge ¨ Belives
- 30. Methodological issue How to develop (critical) thinking?
- 31. Q-sort method ¨ Step 1 – individual work, identification of own believes ¨ Step 2 – work in a small group, discussion, argumentation, collective search for solutions ¨ Step 3 – work in the forum, presenting, argumentation, comparing statements/points of view)
- 32. The pyramid of skills
- 34. Basic skills ¨ This group consists of all social and interpersonal skills, manners, competences related to moving on the labour market and planning a career. ¨ These skills determine the style of functioning on the labour market, the quality of contacts with co- workers, the professional image.
- 35. Professional skills ¨ specific for a given business and professional environment. ¨ The group consists of skills which build work professionalism. ¨ These are expert, valid and specialist knowledge and expertise in doing work tasks. ¨ The level of these skills is often determined by aptitudes, predispositions and talents. ¨ Work experience plays also a significant role.
- 36. Distinctive skill ¨ Is characteristic for an individual. ¨ It is the skill which makes people stand out from other graduates of a given major and from other professionals. ¨ It can be: ¤ specific, scarcely available and highly specialist knowledge, ¤ an exceptional skill, ¤ unique experience or training which is not available for the majority of people from a given business. It can be ¤ a knowledge of rather an unpopular language or specialist software. The distinctive competence gives an advantage on the labour market, makes people stand out from a crowd, enables people to be noticed and positively remembered.
- 37. ¨ The distinctive competence gives an advantage on the labour market, makes people stand out from a crowd, enables people to be noticed and positively remembered
- 38. The new roles of career counselor
- 39. The roles of a 'new' career counsellor • Class tutor • Facilitator • Mediator • Organizer • Expert • Analyst • Critical commentator • Network creator • Person using resources • Person restoring order