Hi! Everyone! My name is Heather Fortunberry. My preferred pronoun she her hers. I am the career exploration coach with Cornell care services, and I'm here today to talk about what employers and specifically focusing on those career readiness and transferable skills I am gonna go ahead and actually put in our chat we'll be referring a lot to our creative development career development toolkit. Excuse me on canvas, and specifically the career readiness module, so there's a great workbook that I'm throwing this in the chat right now. The link for the career readiness workflow that will help you. I just provide some definitions, but also some really good exercises that we're gonna we're gonna work through today together. Great, alright, so I'm sure that will be other people that will be joining us as well. But for now, thank you all for joining me today. So to give you a quick overview of what we're going to be talking about. I wanna establish some of the goals for today. Talk a little through some creative development. I really focusing on that transferable skills and career readiness and providing some definitions and some understanding of what this is. And then some career, writiness exercises throughout, and I always like to leave students with those actions aidance next steps, so that you have some good understanding of what to do. So some of the goals today definitely increasing awareness of how you are building your skills. You're building those skills right now through the various experiences that you have. And these experiences are definitely preparing you for your future work and life. As you move forward. I also really focusing on some strategies and tips for how to articulate these skills to employers and graduate school admissions, officers, other professionals. Whether it's we're really going to focus today on resumes, but also kind of maybe talking a little bit about how you might have those conversations outside of that as well you guys like to start off our presentations with a just understanding our career development model seeing an understanding that this is a cycle and that each of you, including myself, are in some aspect of this model. As we move forward and continue to understand who we are and our strengths and our values, exploring different options, whether it's internships work after you graduate or graduate school or maybe advanced degree options and then also as you get ready to apply some of you may be doing that right now. Some of you may have gone through that process already, but whether it's looking at resumes or cover letters or practicing interviews for internships, jobs after you graduate, or maybe again, as you're thinking about graduate school moving forward as well, alright, so here's where i'm gonna put this in the chat again. The link for the the career, readiness work, work, workbook. This will be really helpful to just kind of understand what put you into some small groups and go ahead and look at. Look through, you can see all the career readiness skills there. But go ahead, and just pick one, and I'll give you about 2, 3 min to just talk a little bit about. What does the skill mean to you, even without going through this workshop, share some of those experiences? You can have a quick little discussion about what the skill means to you, so go ahead and take a moment, and you should be in your group. Well, welcome back if you want to go ahead and put in the chat. Just how did that feel? Having these conversations, and even reading a little bit about these skills as you are starting to learn? Maybe in some cases, maybe some of the skills you recognize because you know about meet leadership, maybe others were a little bit less familiar. Great. Yeah. Good. Yeah. I see some really good sounds like you. So really good conversations let's say some people were referring, even from experiences that they had in high school. He had a couple of, yeah. So we had some graduate students who also were talking a little bit about maybe research, and how that comes into play, as you think about the kind of problem, solving skills as well, good good. Thank you all for sharing so let's talk a little bit. We I mentioned. We're gonna talk a little bit more about transferable skills. This might be a term that you're familiar with. Or that you've heard before, but aren't quite sure how you would incorporate this so defining it and you can see that definition right up there. But basically, these are the skills that you can apply to a lot of different aspects of in a career context, different jobs, different industries. They likely are skills that are recognized as being skills that are really important and valuable in those areas. And the good news. Is that likely you are developing these? You you know. Maybe some of them you're more familiar with, or you're using more than others. But these are definitely skills that are coming from maybe other industries or work experience that you had potentially maybe volunteer experiences, hobbies that you've had classes that you're exposed to. Or you know different projects, maybe that you're involved in, or even if you're just at home. So that's a really interesting to kind of reflect on. We're gonna go ahead and do another little activity again. This is in the workbook so you can refer to this activity. But I'm also going to pull up kind of a summarized version of what is in your workbook to highlight some of these transferable skill examples. So go ahead and take maybe a minute or 2, and in your workbook go ahead and check off. Some of these skills that you feel like you've either used before or are currently using. And I'll give you again about a minute or 2 to do that. Great. Thank you. I it sounds like we had some good conversations. During the pause. Yeah, I mean, what are some of the skills? Maybe that as you checked off, you were like, oh, I didn't even really think about this as a skill that I could use, or that employers might be interested in. You know what I do, setting goals, I mean, we're always setting goals. You think about the critical thinking skills? I, you know, on a daily basis, oftentimes, or setting goals, I have to get this homework done, or I need to make sure that I send this email or I need to connect with a friend, yes, right? Even those little tiny goals, and they might be longer term goals as well I'm really looking to build skills to learn more about consulting for example, in terms of communication. I think a couple of people were talking a little bit about like Oh, my goodness, yeah, I do send emails or and there are some. Again, this is a summarized version of what you're seeing right now. But in that workbook there's a lot of other skill examples that might really resonate with you, asking questions in class talking to a professor absolutely. You know, even some of those other skills that you see there where you're like, oh, you know, I in my research, I do care for plants. I do have to make sure that you know my lab is clean, etc. So sometimes this is a nice little confidence booster, and I think sometimes when you think like oh, I'm not sure if I'm building any skills. But then you go through this worksheet, and he realize I'm not that you are building skills, you have a lot of skills, you're also here, at cornell so you came in with skills. But you're continuing to build on those skills as well. So, how does this apply? Right? You have these transferable skills. How are they? Kind of pulling in to help you? Be ready for career paths so the definition kind of the broadly applicable definition of career readiness, because there's a very much more a in depth, definition as well it's basically that these are skills that are going to help you succeed in the workplace that you can apply to your work life. And again, typically employers are looking for these skills. So usually, career readiness isn't just like this word or this, you know, kind of goal that you're achieving. You're thinking about those skills that you're identifying, recognizing that you're building on these skills and getting more and more knowledge and also abilities the more you use them or the more you practice them, or the more that you incorporate them and apply them and technically, all of those are helping you to really define these like career readiness competencies, and technically, all of those are helping you to really define these like career readiness competencies. Now I wanna address that. This doesn't necessarily mean that you've achieved like there's no like Aha. You are the expert at this or that you've completed those 8 skills. And so you're done, and you've kind of like reached the start. To be honest, you are constantly, you know, identifying these different skills or pulling in different aspects of those skills. It's really about being aware continuing to develop the skills throughout your so yes, you know, everyone, we're you may see somebody that you feel has really strong coding skills. Okay, you know, thinking about different steps for you to maybe build on those coding skills. If that's your goal, or just recognizing that they are some different ways of kind of developing those skills or similar types of skills and this is what we're here for. And I really kind of help. You find those opportunities connect with different opportunities to help you to continue to build on the skills that you're excited to incorporate as you think about career. Now the reason why we are talking about career readiness is that we are. We are members of N, which is an organization, is the National Association of Colleges and Employers, and this is an organization that includes both career professionals as well as employers and so they do a job outlook survey every year to ask employers what are the top skills that you're looking for those career readiness skills that you're looking for. And basically they come down to these 8. I will recognize every year they're asking this question. So there is some movement. Sometimes there's some different defining or a different labeling for these different career readiness competencies. But ultimately they are these 8. So you have career. And self-development, communication, you've got critical thinking. You have equity and inclusion, leadership, professionalism, teamwork and technology. And again in the in the career, readiness workbook, you can see, like quite extensive definitions of each of these, and for some of these terms, maybe like, Oh, communication! Maybe I know what that means. But maybe there's some other areas, you know, for example, professionalism, where you're like, I'm a little like less sure what what this term means, or how it can be incorporated into like, how can I keep building on career readiness skills for professionalism. The good thing is that there's also some really good examples on the career development toolkit for each of these. And we're we're gonna kind of dive into this a little bit more. So we can talk a little bit more about how you can continue to develop these. So question for all of you as we're looking at this. Thinking about employers and what they're looking for. What do you think are the top skills that employers are selecting out of these 8? In the most recent. Survey, so go ahead and you can put your answers in the chat. Curious to what everyone's. Oh, you've got lots of leadership. Okay? Yup, you got some critical thinking, equity and inclusion. Yeah. Good. Okay, thank you. Thanks for participating. Alright. Well, let's take a look. So this is again from that job. Outlook, survey, and you can see these are the top skills and employers are seeking for the class of 2022. So again we'll have a new one for next year, but you can see right over the top. We've got that problem solving scales honestly analytical and the quantityative skills which also that, like critical thinking component, that problem solving is right up their teamwork. We hear a little bit of teamwork with in the chat communication skills. Yes, initiative. So this one's kind of interesting, too. And you can think about that. It's like kind of that work at the aspect as well. Professionalism. So again, these are just some of the top skills that attributes that employers are looking for for the class of 2022. Alright. So we're gonna do a little exercise together, and there's aspects of this in the workbook as well. So those of you who are just joining us. It's just put in the chat we are referring to the career development toolkit on canvas. The career, readiness, module. And there's a great workbook which is the career readiness workbook. But basically, you know now that we kind of have an understanding, we've gone through each of these. You know the 8 career readiness skills. And there's tons more on the creative element. Toolkit. How are you going to apply this now, as you think about what you've done, and what skills you're building? Maybe even identifying what skills are you hoping to build a little bit more, or with some skills that you feel? Maybe you don't have as much experience building and developing. So we're going to refer to this this document as we're kind of thinking ahead. And I'm gonna kinda walk you through the Xs. Excuse me the exercise as well. So again, excuse me, you've got all 8 of those scales there. And really now the goal is to try to think about maybe pick, we're just gonna pick one moving forward. How are the reason why I, emphasizing in your role versus in your internship or in your job, is because again, you have experiences right. We think about those transferable skills where you're building you're building on those core readiness skills. So you know, a big thing is just kind of really like referring on any role. Maybe you were president of a club in high school, maybe right now you're on a project team. Maybe you volunteer, you know, through an organization as well. So in your mind. Just kind of think about some of those roles that you have as a student here at Cornell. It could even be a student in my academic class. So I want you to kind of think about that. For the purposes of this example, we're going to focus on like, let's just say you volunteer as a tutor. I know many of you may be your Tas teaching assistants on campus, or maybe you volunteered when you were in high school as a tutor. Maybe you have your own tutor business but let's just say you know, kind of, broadly speaking, if someone was like, Oh, what is your job? And you're like, Oh, yeah, you know, I volunteer as a tutor. I work with K. Through 12 students. And I tutor various academic subjects. Maybe that was even part of your job description when you applied great. All right. Well, there's a lot in that, and probably you do more. If you kind of broke that out a little bit more than just what's listed here. So I generally were asking like, Pull this out a little bit more. What do you actually do as a tutor? Oh, you know, maybe you prepare lesson plans. Maybe you know you're working with this students teacher in middle school. And so the teachers, like, oh, you know, here's all the work that we're doing right now. Help the student, utilities, help working on their science, homework, so maybe you're taking all that you're analyzing it. You're distilling it, helping the student really understand. Maybe complex information, so that you can help them with their 1 h tutoring class. Great. So that's a lot. There's a lot in that you could probably break that out into even more things. Maybe you're having 2 report back to a parent or a family member. So, or maybe to your own supervisor about the various goals that you've set for yourself. And how have you accomplished those goals, or what are some challenges that are coming up in these tutoring sessions? Alright! So we're gonna do this together. But you're gonna do this a little bit more on individually thinking about your waltz I'm gonna give you about 5 min, and we can go back to that little like spreadsheet. But honestly, I want you to really think about your experiences. Pick ones and think about one of the competencies that you feel you use most in that. Try to like parcel out a little bit more. What are the things that you do? How do you do it? Who do you do these experiences with, so that you can really ask yourself, what do I really do in this or in this position, or in this role? So again, I'm gonna give you about 5 min to go ahead and do that, and then we'll connect back again. Alright! How is that for everybody? Maybe in the chat, if you can just share which of the career readiness competencies, you sell it to talk about. Lots of leadership. I see lots of leadership again. And so communication, huh! Someone was just someone just posted in the chat that they recognized some of the icons from the career readiness because they we have them posted all around our office and Barnes Hall. So, yes, absolutely. Yeah. And even the posters have some really good like how to keep building or how to recognize these skills. So come visit us for sure. Great, thank you. Everyone for participating. So again, you know, we I briefly touched on this, but it's it is one thing to recognize those skills. And I also to kind of continue recognizing that you continue to build on these skills. Are. There are other ways that you can build on these skills. Again. I'll I'll just reference the creative element toolkit. There are for each of these competencies we have, you know, 10 to 12 different strategies for continuing to build. On each of these scale. So I'll just like touch base on a couple of these in our short time together. So yeah, let's, we'll kind of start with. I don't know. We'll start with maybe communication you could, and we'll kind of reference our career services services. You could schedule a practice interview with career services, staff. That's a great way to practice your communication skills to practice that. Tell me a little bit about yourself. Answer. You could continue to practice networking skills by connecting with alumni and your peers, using Cu links so that incorporate some of the written communication skills as well. You could, even as you're thinking about other ways. Let's see, I maybe even like the for equity and Equity, keeping an open mind, diverse ideas, new ways of thinking. Think about different clubs or organizations, or talks that you could attend on campus. We often have speakers that will come, that are open even to like the Ithka community. Great way to kind of get some additional exposure, identifying resources, eliminating barriers resulting from individual and systemic racism and equalities and biases absolutely absolutely. Those are some of really great opportunities, and I know I know that many of our students are doing this, so if if you feel like this is one of those areas that you are interested in. Again, lots of resources to help you connect to these opportunities, to continue to develop your skills. Talking about leadership, like volunteering or running for a leadership role, taking on that leadership role in a student organization. Obviously even thinking about different academic groups, that you might be in for projects in your classes, thinking about those moments where you know maybe 3 of your peers. Everyone's trying to decide what to do, and you kind of take on that leadership role to help organize your group absolutely even planning an event or a meeting. Sometimes, you know, depending on what we're organizations. You might be a part of running a meeting, setting those clear goals identifying and securing resources absolutely so. Lots of different things. Professionalism, you know, looking at internships absolutely. That's gonna give you some different professional experiences, or even looking at listings on handshake as well. And technology. I'll just say we have a lot of different technology that we're using, whether you are accessing some of our other technology that we have. For example, like handshake, or some of the other technology that we have, for example, like handshake, or some of the other resources using those online resources, even using email and zoom, you can think about some of those things maybe getting a little bit more comfortable. I know that now that we're not as much as in the zoom world. Sometimes you're still trying to navigate, and especially because Zoom is updating so absolutely, I'll also mention quickly to that in many of these areas. As a student, you have access to Linkedin learning. It is free to you. Cornell. Peace for it! I'll throw in some of those links also in the chat, as we're talking a little bit more. But talk about tech in terms of technology, or even some of these other areas. Linkedin learning could be another great resource to get some exposure and some of these areas, and how to continue to build on them as well. So as you're building these skills, what are you? Gonna what do you do with this? We talked a little bit about how to articulate these skills to employers. We're going to specifically focus right now on bullet points and building those resume bullet points. Using some of these career readiness skills to really help influence what you're talking about. We have lots of resources on how to build your resume so I'm not gonna go into huge detail. But I'll just reference again. The creative development toolkit is such a great resource. Lots of great talents, also, like action items helping you kind of walk through things. But to kind of boil down and really focusing on how to build those bullet points, we typically are encouraging students to ask themselves, What did you do? How did you do it, and why did you do it to help you as you're developing these for various experiences that you have? Again. We are already we already highlighted. I already talked a little bit about. It could be an internship, it could be a work experience. It could be a volunteer experience. It could be project, experience. There's a lot of different ways to kind of build on this. So when we talk about, what did you do we're really focusing on the task. What was that task? You did? What were some of the responsibilities as part of that task? And we already did a little bit of that exercise. So you can reflect a little bit on what you may have written. There it does help to think about some really strong action to help identify that I evaluated. I communicated, and I should mention that typically in a resume, you're not gonna say I. This I that, but focusing on, communicate it, evaluated, connected, collaborated with peers to Xyz. So typically, that's what we're. It's this is like the fun part for our jobs when we're talking to students, it's like, Oh, yeah, let's hope you build this out. What did you do? Talk to me? Let's brainstorm a little bit. But also, how did you do it? And here's where some of the technology crew readiness could come in. Even the teamwork and collaborations. I professionalism, maybe are, you know, had to communicate to a professor. But thinking about some of those tools and resources, thinking about some of the strategies, maybe, that you incorporated as you solve the problem. But absolutely this is a really good place to incorporate those transferable skills. And again asking yourself, looking at, maybe looking at that exercise that we just did, and making sure that you answered like, How did I do this? But also the why really great to kind of encourage these results? It's kind of like the purpose. What was the goal? What was the outcome of this responsibility that you did sometimes? This is a harder place to focus on. So absolutely for any of these areas, it's going to be really helpful to remember that we are resource to help you navigate through the. So? Why are you kind of? Why? Why are I encouraging you to kind of build some of this out, to go back to what employers are looking for? As you are building? Your resume, and recognizing those transferable skills, recognizing those career readiness skills that you are continuing to develop, it can be really helpful to look at the job posting. Or I should really like, brought in this to say an opportunity posting, because it could be a volunteer experience. It could be, you know, something that you're applying to a scholarship. Maybe even. But absolutely as we're thinking about career in terms of internships or jobs after you graduate, it can be really helpful to look through this opportunity to really get a sense of what are they looking for? A lot of times they're gonna say, I, you know, looking for people who are curious or who haven't specific skills. And I mean, like coding skills or computer skills, or you know, knows Microsoft word or Microsoft Office. But also you'll see stuff like ability to collaborate or ability to. You know, finish a job on your own. With that, with little supervision. So again, looking through the job, posting and you know we have this little tool so you could start writing down some of those areas that you really identify the collaboration, the communication, the critical thinking problem solving absolutely. And then you get to think. Reflect on. Oh, I've done this, but really, where have I done this? How have I done this? How can you kind of make those connections for that employer? So they're looking for specifics, and you have them through various activities that you've experienced. And this is really going to be a great way for you to be able to tailor and to really customize your resume for that opportunity. Typically on a resume we're gonna really make sure that you're thinking about most relevant experiences. First, and how can you like organize your document to really highlight that? But it's also about building out those experiences. So you're not just like, oh, I was a tutor, but building out a little bit more. Oh, I you know, I interacted with students, 5 students, to help them do excellent. So really building that out a little bit more, and, as you can see on the slide, even echoing key words and phrases. So you see, in the job posting, or that opportunity posting, they're really looking for people who can collaborate and you're like, Oh, I collaborated. And so making sure that you're incorporating some of that as well I know I keep talking about the creative moment toolkit. But I'll just emphasize again. There's amazing. It's like one of my favorite pages in the resume module, and it's all the action verbs, and it's listed by different skills. So you're like, oh, I'm trying to highlight communication skills. But I don't want to keep on saying, communicate, communicate, communicate, go to that action. The action verb lists, and you can see all of those like amazing. Send it names that will help you. And you can also Google. But the creative development toolkit has a really good resource. So let's take just 5 min writing. Resume bullet points, can feel a little bit overwhelming. But we're just gonna have fun with this. Give yourself about 5 min. I write one or 2 skills and honestly even reflect back to that activity that we did earlier. Where asked you to really think about? What did I actually do? You might already have some great bullet points that you can really build from. Okay, how did that go for everybody? I had some messages as well. What we were during the activity. And yeah, this could feel a little bit. It could feel a little bit overwhelming. I see some people we're volunteering to add some of their resume bullet points. There's their example. So well done. Good. Yeah. I mean, this, this, this can feel really challenging, but it can also be really fun. I personally think it can be really helpful. Having that opportunity in front of you, so that you have something to kind of guide you. But it can also help if you look back at like your old job description, or that that posting that you're really excited about, and just kind of reminding yourself like, oh, right, I did do that. Those were other things that I forgot to include again. You want it to be relevant. So you're not necessarily having to put like a ton of information in there. But it's really it's a useful tool to remind yourself of what this is. This is gonna be helpful even in your Linkedin, your Linkedin Profile. And again, just as a reminder for you of all the skills and all the things that you have done. Even again some of you. I know you're like, Oh, I've had. No, I didn't have any job or internship experience, but we're able to kind of think about projects that they've done in their classes. And that's a really great way to to build from there, too. Alright. Well, as we kind of wrap things up tonight, just a reminder right? How many times did I say I feel like we should have had a little game of like? How many times did Heather say the Kurdwlement toolkit? It's so amazing. I know you all have this as part of your canvas, but if you a lot of times, though I talked to Steve and they're like, Oh, yeah, I think it's on my canvas. But I haven't actually explored hopefully. This gets you excited because you're already using that career readiness workbook. But you know, we continue to build on these little Mini career courses. You can see there's that crew. Readiness course right there at the very beginning. But there's so many other great resources. We talked about the resume we did not get into cover licenses, but also the interviewing module is a really good one that you can absolutely incorporate the knowledge that you gain through the workshop today into answering some of those questions about. Tell me a time that you collaborated with a peer, and, you know, solve the problem. Great. Let me tell you a little bit about that this is a great, these are great exercises to really help you prepare for. You know these very important steps, as you applied to different opportunities. See you links. I like to talk about this as another resource. I there are so many alumni who have volunteered to be part of this knowledge sharing platform and networking platform, where you, as a student, can reach out to an alarm, to ask questions, to explore career paths, to request to meet with them virtually or via phone or in person but one of the things I part of the reason why I like to bring this up as well is that there are some different filters in the system, and one of them is kind of conversation topics, or I'd like to share more information on and career readiness is one of them. So this is good. I often will interact with students who want to go into a different industry or they're thinking about changing. You know, kind of their traditional major to career path, and they are not sure. But I'm not sure what skills they're thinking about changing, you know, kind of their traditional major to career path. And they are not sure. But I'm not sure what skills I need. If I wanna go into finance alright. Well, you you could connect with somebody who is currently in a finance profession right now, and ask a little bit more. What do you do during your day? What are some of the skills that are valued? Do you have any additional resources or suggested people that I could connect you to learn more? So absolutely. See you a links is a great resource to connect and also practice building on your communication skills and your professionalism skills. And even that career and self-development skills. So absolutely, so. Next steps, as you continue, maybe exploring the career readiness, module. But as you kind of take these skills and apply them as you move forward, absolutely explore the critical and toolkit I'll also mention I did as I introduce myself at the beginning. I work with Cornell care services with the Central Office for those of you for our undergraduate attendees tonight. You also have your college career services, office and there are great resource as well. Graduate students. You also have additional resources, but you can also, through the graduate school and we are also another resource for you here in our office. And as I said, Yeah, explore to you, Eelings couldn't be so. Another resource for you here in our office and as I said, Yeah, explore. See you links connect with and your peers those of you who are first year students, or even sophomore juniors, could reach out to your senior peers to ask a little bit more, or to graduate peers as well through. There's lots of different ways of connecting. And that this is specifically for our office, for the Central Office in Barnes Hall, our office is open when they through Friday, 8 to 4 30 Pm. You can update schedule, an appointment with us, or follow us on Instagram. There's a lot of really great resources on Instagram. Students, stories, tips, etc. And just a reminder of the services that we provide our students. If you are trying to connect with your colleagues, career services, office to you can access that any one of their scheduling links through our website. And you can see that I'll send that to you all later as well. Again follow us on Instagram! Look at all those great stories. We do have workshops and events coming up honestly and I'll just kind of throw this out there, too. We are here all year long. So even in the summer time, and oftentimes there will be some different events and workshops in the summer some of you may have experiences that you're committed to in the summer. Others. Maybe this is a great way to continue your professional development. Your career, self-development. But we do have some sessions that are coming up over the next couple of weeks, and I always appreciate feedback. I know this is a lot of information and a short amount of time. Feel free to submit your feedback through this. QR. Code, I definitely is helpful for me as we continue to improve our workshops and thank you so much. Everybody, for producing and for being here tonight. I again. I will stick around for to answer some questions that you have, and there's my contact information. If you want to reach out to me as well, and Linkedin as well, and have a really good night, and I will hopefully see you. Maybe in our office or across campus. Thank you so much.