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Visual Thinking and Career Development: Using Graphic Organizers to Enhance Your Impact Dr. Katharine S. Brooks You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path From Chaos to Career Session 3: Cluster Diagrams and Circles

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Visual Thinking and Career Development: Using Graphic Organizers to Enhance Your Impact

Dr. Katharine S. BrooksYou Majored in What? Mapping Your Path From Chaos to Career

Session 3: Cluster Diagrams and Circles

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Goals of this webinar series

1. Introduce visual techniques for different career issues to enhance your career advising activities.

2. Encourage you to develop even more creative ways to explain and illustrate choices, options, or ways to think about a situation.

3. Promote an action-oriented approach which helps client take a more active role.

Dr. Katharine Brooks : You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path From Chaos to Career

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Advantages of Visual Thinking“It’s easier to organize your thoughts if you can see them.”

Visual thinking: • Helps us organize and clarify our thoughts, while reducing

complexity.• See relationships more easily.• Encourages specific types of thinking or problem-solving.• Enhances understanding and retention of information • Is easy to do and inexpensive• Provides a tangible “take-away” product for students.

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Pie Wedges

RIASEC

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Venn Diagram

Skills

JobsValues

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Target

4-year college2nd Year at CC1st Year at CC

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Covey’s Circle of Influence

Circle of Influence

Circle of Concern

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Cycle

Discover

Dream

Design

Destiny

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Expanding Circles

Professional Organizations

Family

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Cluster Diagrams

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanhp/

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Cluster Diagram

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When to Use Cluster Diagrams

• Considering several options• To demonstrate how one central idea can

expand to other ideas• To demonstrate how divergent ideas or items

can be consolidated into a whole.• Examples:– Skills analysis– Career choices

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Clusters: Possible Lives

MeNutritionis

t

Coach

DieticianFitnessTrainer

Elementary Teacher

CSIAnalyst

Humane Society

Nurse

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Analyzing the Possible Lives Exercise

1. Review the career ideas with the student2. Look for themes in the choices3. Select 2-3 to start analyzing4. Draw a line from the center to the job5. Write the steps to get to the job6. Watch the energy level

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Clusters: Possible Lives

MeNutritionis

t

Coach

DieticianFitnessTrainer

Elementary Teacher

CSIAnalyst

Humane Society

Nurse

Step

s

If not, ask student to insert the steps to get to the career.

Ask: Can you do that career tomorrow?

Notice where the student starts to gain or lose energy in the process.

Write down the main themes.

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Strengths

Jobs?________________________

Organized

Patient

Creative

ProblemSolver

Multi-tasker

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Strengths

Jobs?________________________

Organized

Patient

Creative

ProblemSolver

Multi-tasker

Story__________ ____________________________

Story__________ ____________________________

Story__________ ____________________________

Story__________ ____________________________

Story__________ ____________________________

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Cover Letter Design

Cover Letter for Job

Strength #1

What do I most want them to

know about me?

What is the next action

step?How can they contact me?

What I know about company

or job

Why I think I would do this

well

What I like about Job

Strength #2

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Questions?

Thank you for attending.

Look at your schedule for next week and see if there’s a place you

could try applying one of these visual exercises.

“See” you next Friday!Kate Brooks