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Career Development Workshops |
For career development and training opportunities for managers and supervisors, see the Supervisory Training Program.
Career Foundations
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This session focuses on what makes a job or career meaningful and satisfying. Gaining an understanding of skills, personal preferences, values and interests is an important start in this self-understanding that makes satisfying work possible. The Career Foundations course provides this first step. It will provide the inward knowledge that is so important for satisfying personal development. You will complete the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Step II prior to the workshop and will complete values, interests and skills analyses in the workshop. These assessments and other activities in this workshop will help in beginning work on an individual development plan.
Participants will learn
- The impact that their skills, values, interests, and personality preferences have on career satisfaction
- Ways to create a new sense of direction in their work life
- How to create an individual development plan
There is a $35.00 fee for this course.
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Career Resilience
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Is your department, unit, or area slated to go through changes that will directly impact your work? Times of internal change and transition can often cause stress and uncertainty for employees. Employee Career Services offers Career Resilience, a workshop designed to provide U of M staff members with the tools they need to be proactive and effective in their current or future work.
In this workshop, you will gain skills to:
- assess your current job situation;
- explore resources available;
- identify options;
- make intentional choices about your job/career; and
- determine achievable action steps.
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Improve Your Interview Skills
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The job interview can be the critical piece in the whole job hiring process. What can you do to prepare for a job interview? This interactive workshop will cover both the basics and the finer points of interviewing. Skill building will focus on situational behavioral interviewing techniques.
Please Note: This is a 3-hour workshop, which includes practice time.
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Renewing Your Worklife
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After a few years of doing the same job, employees may feel they have mastered the skills and knowledge necessary to be successful. If nothing really changes, such as new responsibilities and challenges, you may feel stuck. This is called the “career plateau.” No matter how creative, skillful, or experienced, the plateau potentially hits many workers. This workshop will explore this common phenomenon and help you discover paths to growth and renewal.
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U of M Job Networking
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Are you thinking about exploring or changing jobs at the U of M? Not sure how to start? Its more than looking at job postings online.
Building and maintaining connections with others (that is, networking) is THE most important career planning and job hunting skill you can develop. Authentic networking allows you to explore new departments and environments that might fit for you, learn about new opportunities, and/or plan for growth and development.
This workshop will give you a brief overview of the employment system at the U. Participants will also identify where to find places to network, whom to talk to, and what to say to make the best impression.
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