New Career Services for our campus

CAREER SERVICES FOR CAMPUS

Please share this information with colleagues, your supervisees and staff organizations about career services available for all staff. The Center for Workforce Development will offer career development workshops and career counseling through a partnership with Counseling and Psychological Services at the Tang Center.

Building a career on campus involves developing a plan that connects one's personal interests and abilities with career opportunities available at the University A new set of workshops and resources are now available to campus to help in that exploration.

All workshop and enrollment information can be found on ICE.

SPRING CAREER WORKSHOPS

Introduction to Career Planning

Instructors: Dr. Jarralynne Agee & Dr. Elayne Chou

Staff members are encouraged to attend this workshop to clarify their career planning needs and to learn about new programs and resources on campus to help them achieve their career goals at Berkeley. This workshop is the pre-requisite for all other career services and events.  (1.5 hours) Dates: 2/15, 2/20, 4/5, 5/10

SELF ASSESSMENT        ;           ; Dr. Rick Low

Exploring Career Interests with the Strong Interest Inventory

The Strong Interest Inventory is used to clarify prominent career and work interests. These themes will be discussed and related to job families and career opportunities on the Berkeley campus.  (1.5 hours) Dates: 2/26, 4/10, 5/14

Assessing Personality Type and Your Career with the Myers-

Briggs Type Indicator

Understanding your preferred work style and how it relates to specific careers and work roles on campus can be critical to career satisfaction.  ;

(1.5 hours) Dates: 3/5, 4/17, 5/24

Values and Skills Assessment

This workshop will focus on clarifying career values and skills to help you evaluate how jobs in different campus departments match your personal values and skills. 

 (1.5 hours) Dates: 3/12, 4/27, 6/1

GOAL SETTING        ;               ;   Dr. Elayne Chou

Taking Action and Moving Forward in Your Career

Goal setting and decision making strategies will be addressed in this workshop to help staff  learn ways of coping with potential obstacles to career development.

 (1.5 hours) Dates:  3/22, 5/3, 6/7

JOB SEARCH SKILLS    

Center for Workforce Development & Office of Human Resources

Marketing yourself for your next job (Resume & Cover Letters).

This workshop focuses on creating a resume and cover letter that gets attention and results.  (1.5 hours) Dates: 2/26, 4/6

Job Interview Workshop

This hands-on workshop gives you tips for acing the interview.

(1.5 hours) Dates:3/5, 4/13

Informational Interviewing

Go straight to the source. Get great career information by holding conversation with staff that could help with ideas to support your career strategy

 (1.5 hours) Dates: 3/12, 4/20

Career Panel: Success Stories at CAL

Staff members who have made successful career transitions will discuss successful strategies for career planning at Cal.  (1.5 hours) Dates: 3/19, 4/27

ENROLL FOR ANY OF THE WORKSHOPS ON ICE http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/ice/home/ Keyword: CAREER

For general information contact trainingberkeley.edu  642-8134

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Jarralynne Agee, Psy.D

University of California, Berkeley

Center for Workforce Development

Lecturer, African American Studies & Psychology

Email: jageeberkeley.edu    Phone: (510)643-5280

Web http://ocf.berkeley.edu/~jagee