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October 19, 1999

HOW TO GET STARTED ON YOUR JOB
SEARCH - PERSONAL INVENTORY

This week’s topic is all about gathering the personal tools you need to
begin your job search. The first thing you need is both a good idea of what
interests you and what skills you can take with you to a job. For example,
ask yourself the following questions:

(NOTE * - Why don’t you grab a pen and answer these questions, you will be
surprised on how much work it is to think about yourself and what it is you
actually enjoy doing!)

1. What are my general interests?

2. What kinds of activities do | enjoy the most?

3. What do | consider to be my most significant accomplishments so

far?

4. Can you find a common thread running through your answers so far?
i.e., do you see any skills naturally clustering together?

5. Do you prefer working alone or with others?

6. Do you prefer working indoors, outdoors, or both?

7. Do you like having responsibility or prefer for someone else to be in

charge?

8. What job features are most important to you? E.g.: hours, salary,

closeness to home, opportunity to travel, learning something new,

independence on the job, social status, approval of others on the job?
9. Make a list of the things you do not want in your work situation and
lists its opposite. What do | mean? For example, say, “I do _ not like

‘to work alone” could be translated to a positive
“| like to work with other people.”

10. List as many different occupations that have interested you, and
think about what it is that you liked about them.

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Once you have completed this questionnaire, go back and study your answers.
You will see patterns developing, for example, you may really like working
with and helping people, like flexible hours,

and want the opportunity to travel. Or, you may like to work outdoors,

prefer to work alone, and enjoy a physically challenging job. Hmmm, you may
have communication skills, interpersonal skills, computer skills,

analytical, teaching, etc. Do you see my point?

There are no right or wrong answers here, the point of this little exercise

is to get you thinking about the kinds of things you like doing, and the

kinds of skills you have to accompany your likes. This will help point you

to the kinds of jobs you would like doing.

Stay tuned for next time as we will take your preferences and match them to
... Well, it's a surprise!

Final note: | am getting my information from the University of Victoria
Career Placement Manual, 1997 (from a course | took). It is not copyrighted
in any way, but just in case you ask ... ;

If you happen to have-a copy, you could even follow along.

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Aries (March 21-April 19)
Your sign is still lacking ambition.
Your highlighted notes from the first
week have been lost long ago, but
skipping your midterm in order to
sleep late was just a little stupid.
Come on, if you’re going to slack off
you should at least do it well.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Your sign has moved from acade-
mics to the sign of personal relation-
ships and you have now found a sig-
nificant other who is nuts about read-

| still maintain “Who needs to

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

You haven’t seen the cutie on the
bus since the last time you met, and
you are starting to worry that some-
thing has happened to him. Don’t
worry, he’s just avoiding you.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)

The pile in the basement has start-
ed moving. Since you didn’t do any-
thing about it before, | suggest that
you start moving (into a different
apartment).

Leo (July 23-Aug 22)

Your ambition has picked up since
last time, but seize the chance to get
some work done now, because you
never know how long it will last.
Virgo (Aug 23-Sept 22)

Mike hasn't been to impressed with
you, what with the fact that you forgot
him in your trunk for almost a month.
Despite that fact he really seems to
like you, and he’s asked you on a
date for next week.

Libra (Sept 23-Oct 22)

You still haven’t managed to find
your planner, which is a bad thing,
because without it you are a com-

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plete mess. You're a complete mess
even when you have it too, but having
it with you makes you feel more effec-
tive anyway.

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21)

The smell from your textbooks has
heightened your aversion to studying,
and you haven't even looked at your
notes let alone your books, so you’ve
probably failed all your midterms.
There’s hope yet for finals though, if
you manage to null the toxic fumes
emanating from your textbooks.
Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21)

Since you kicked the peppy person
in your 8:30 class you have just bare-
ly passed your assignment, and were
on shaky ground when you took your
midterm. | suggest that you take the
time and make up with her or you
may just fail all together.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19)

| was wrong last time about those
voices, but you should have realized
yourself that telling your prof that he
was a silly, little man is a bad idea
(they really don’t tend to like it when
you point out the obvious).
Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18)

| still don’t see you in here helping
with the paper. What do you think?
The paper just puts itself out? Get
your but in here!

Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20)

Now that you are done all you
assignments for the week, your com-
puter has decided that it will do all the
things you wanted to do last week,
but all you want to do now is play
Tetris. Just remember that as soon
as you need it again it will decide to
quit again. | suggest that get to know
the guys at CTS really well before
then.

Tired of not seeing anything interesting in the paper

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