703 W. Monroe St., Chicago, IL 60607

Orientation Questionnaire

Name ______Phone (preferred) ______

Email: ______Date: ______

The information you provide will be shared with your coach but is otherwise confidential.Please attach your resume.

The Career Transitions Center and The Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund are collaborating with the purpose of helping their scholars secure professional employment after college. CTC works with recent college graduates and mid-career professionals by providing coaching and programming in order to teach people how to find work using social media, networking and effective resume and interviewing skills. CTC does not place participants in jobs. It seeks to teach you career management skills. In each of the last three years, 80% of their clients found work in six months, versus the national average of 12 months.

Expectations:

Date Time Activity

TBD / TBD / Orientation to Career Management & Goal Setting meeting to be held at CTC offices conducted by CTC staff.
Topics:
*Plan for Progress
*Leverage the Value of Coaching
* Goal Setting
*Discussion of DISC
1st or 3rd Wednesday from 9:30 to 11:30am / CTC General Orientation; completion of online intake and paper forms at CTC offices 703 W. Monroe St.
Consult CTC website calendar
For specific dates / 1-3pm
1-3pm
1-3pm
1-3pm / Attend Building Skills Workshops (4) in the month the program begins, tentatively November 2014.
#1 Know Yourself/Where Your Goingby Harry Sheehy
#2 Job Search Communications/Resumeby Marcia McMahon
#3 NetworkingBy Joanne Wordan
#4 Interviewing/NegotiatingBy Jim McLaughlin
Week after General Orientation / *Begin coaching and do so weekly at CTC offices 703 W. Monroe
*Attend one peer group at least twice a month
*Attend programs recommended by staff and coaches to support your career and job search skills.

Name ______Phone (preferred) ______

Email: ______Date: ______

The information you provide will be shared with your coach but is otherwise confidential. Please attach your resume.

  1. After reviewing the schedule on page one of this survey for this three month program, I am prepared to meet with a coach once a week and to attend the programs, & peer groups, and make the time to participate in this program:Yes or No.
  1. Do you have a car or a plan to use public transportation to get to CTC? Yes or No.

Which one? ______

  1. Describe your current employment or school situation. In the space below, please tell us if your work or school hours will impact your ability to attend programs during the day.

Full-time? Yes or No.

Part-time? Yes or No.

How many jobs? ___

In graduate school?Yes or No.

Other?______

Please complete the following:

  1. Describe the work/employment you seek.
  1. My greatest perceived challenge in job search is…
  1. The help I’d most like to get from a jobcoach is…
  1. Check any/all of the following that would facilitate your search:

___ Determine my career direction

___Articulating my value/promoting myself

___Organizing, goal-setting and accountability

___Resume, cover letter and other communication

___Initiating network and outreach

___Success and confidence in interviewing

___Staying upbeat and on track

  1. What does a self-directed job search mean to you?

To help us learn more about you, please complete the following sections:

SECTION I – WORK VALUES

For each of the following, please circle important (YES) or not important (NO) with respect to the job/opportunity you seek.

My job should:

  1. Have high levels of authority or leadership. YES or NO
  2. Stimulate my curiosity, and intellectual abilities. YES or NO
  3. Produce visible results that I can see, count, or evaluate. YES or NO
  4. Have high levels of flexibility and control. YES or NO
  5. Have opportunities for me to learn new skills and develop expertise. YES or NO
  6. Give me opportunities to spend time dealing with people who share my work

interests and values. YES or NO

  1. Offer excellent salary and benefits. YES or NO
  2. Have a structure and clearly defined performance expectations. YES or NO
  3. Provide job security. YES or NO
  4. Provide desired prestige and status. YES or NO
  5. Provide clear opportunities for growth and advancement in the organization. YES or NO
  6. Have defined schedule or work shift assignment (told in advance). YES or NO

Internal rewards are derived from the work itself in terms of the meaning, engagement, and value of the work to the individual. Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 relate to internal reward factors. Count your yes answers to these questions and place the total on the internal line below.

External rewards are essentially controlled by others like your manager and/or the structure of the job, i.e. money and benefits, job security, prestige/status. Questions 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 all

relate to external reward factors. Count your yes answers to these questions and place the total on the line by external below.

Look at your score patterns. Which reward structure is more important to you? There is no right or wrong pattern. Are you seeking meaning and contribution through your work or is a good paycheck and job security more important? Note your total yes scores below.

Internal______External______

What are your most important Work Values from SECTION I – WORK VALUES?

SECTION II – SKILLS

It is vital to identify and recognize your skills. These skills open new doors to career transition/re-employment. In the following section, you will assess your skills utilizing a few key factors. As you read each skill summary, assess your competence (and related experience).

  • Data (skills like computing, calculating, collecting data, researching and inputting data)

____Beginner ____Intermediate ____Proficient ____ N/A

  • People (skills like advising people, training, managing, supervising, instructing, socializing with others)

____Low ____Average ____High ____ Very High ____ N/A

  • Things and Ideas (skills like monitoring and regulating things, building things, repairing or servicing things, creative in ideas, writing or designing new concepts, evaluating ideas, finding solutions)

____Beginner ____Intermediate ____Proficient ____ N/A

Indicate one or two skill areas where you prefer to use your best skills:

____Data ____People ____Things____Ideas

Are there skills related to one or two categories you particularly focus on or promote in your search/career transition?

____Data ____People ____Things ____Ideas

SECTION III - Job Search Now or Career Exploration

Please circle yes or no.

1. Finding a job as quickly as possible is my priority.

YES OR NO

2. I want to focus my energies on life balance, leisure/travel, marriage/family, fitness/health in addition to finding a job right now.

YES OR NO

3. I want to explore more about my interests/personality and other aspects before I commit to a job search.

YES OR NO

4.My current skills do not match with my career transition goals, and I am interested in becoming skilled in new areas.

YES OR NO

5. My aim is to get my resume out there NOW, get some interviews, and start a new job.

YES OR NO

6. I would like to go back to school for a higher level of education/ take a course or a certification, be refocused/ retrained in an entirely new career.

YES OR NO

7. I am having a tough time in my current job - I need to get my search going.

YES OR NO

SUMMARY – YES answers to questions 1, 5, and 7 indicate strong motivation to initiate a job search NOW. YES answers to questions 2, 3, 4, 6, indicate that you want to explore career transition/refocus rather than search for a job similar to those you have had so far. Let’s look at next steps in the final summary section.

Count your yes answers to questions 1, 5, and 7: Total _____ (Job Search).

Count your yes answers to questions 2, 3, 4, and 6: Total _____ (Career Transition).

Describe your career direction/vision:

What amount of income do you seek to earn?

If you want/need an immediate job, it may be best to focus more of your efforts on immediate employment opportunities and work towards a more significant or definitive job change in the future (such as finding immediate employment as anadministrative assistant while seeking work as a paralegal). Tell us if this Plan A and Plan B approach appeals to you:

Please share with us any obstacles or barriers we should be aware of in order to better assist you.

Thank you!

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