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Self-Discovery and Self-Efficacy: Understanding Your Path to Career Success

This week's session focuses on the importance of self-discovery and self-efficacy in the job hunt. We'll explore how understanding ourselves, our beliefs, and our experiences can significantly affect our career paths. Reflecting on childhood aspirations and influences, we'll engage in group discussions and exercises designed to bolster self-efficacy. By mastering the art of self-discovery, participants will learn to confront challenges more effectively, respond positively to feedback, and develop greater confidence in their abilities to secure their dream jobs.

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Self-Discovery and Self-Efficacy: Understanding Your Path to Career Success

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  1. 6/13 Week 2 - Outline • Course Administration • Syllabus questions • Assessment Questions • Self –Efficacy Discussion • Break • Class Exercises

  2. Syllabus QuestionsAssessment Questions?

  3. Most job-hunters who fail to master the job-hunt or find their dream job, fail not because they lack information about the job market, but because they lack information about themselves. -Richard Nelson Bolles Let’s Self-Discover!

  4. "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucius

  5. Early Conditioning Turn to your neighbor and answer these 2 questions: What did you what to be when you grew up? Who influenced you the most and why?

  6. Self Efficacy Defined • Refers to an individual’s belief that he or she is capable of performing a task. • Beliefs and expectations about one’s ability to accomplish a specific task effectively

  7. SELF WORTH • SELF RESPECT • The sense of value we place on ourselves. • Our ability to assert our wants and needs in life. • SELF EFFICACY • Our ability in what we can do. • Confidence that we can complete the task before us.

  8. Facts about Self-Efficacy HIGH SELF-EFFICACY • Will try harder when faced with a challenge • Will respond better to negative feedback with increased effort and motivation LOW SELF EFFICACY: • are more likely to lessen their effort or give up altogether • Question whether or not they can complete a task

  9. Factors that affect self –efficacy, according to Albert Bandura • Experience – “Mastery experience” success fosters success. Prior experiences-prior successes • Modeling – Observing success, becoming more confident because you see someone else doing the task • Verbal persuasion- becoming more confident because someone convinces you that you have the skills necessary to be successful. (motivational speakers) • Assessment of current physical and emotional capabilities

  10. Saving Private Ryan

  11. BREAK

  12. SEPARATE INTO GROUPS OF 3 OR 4, YOU DECIDE. – Please stay in these group until after MBTI.

  13. Group Exercise #1 – 15 minutesSeparate into groups of 3 or 4 • Introduce yourself • Share about a time when you thought to yourself, “There is no way I can do this”….but somehow, you did it. • What were the conditions • What made it possible for you to pull it off? • What was the situation and how did you ultimately do it?

  14. Group Exercise #2 – 30 minutesDiscuss these questions in your group. REMEMBER SELF-EFFICACY IS TASK – RELATED • On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the highest) how much self-efficacy do you think you have? • Do you think self-efficacy is important? • Do you have self efficacy regarding your current job? • Did you have self efficacy before you took your present job? If not explain why. • What’s the difference between self confidence and self efficacy to you? • If your self efficacy is lower than you would like, what do you need to do to increase it?

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