1. WoW®
Self Awareness
Lucy Shenton

2. WoW® Skills Certificate

3. WoW® Skills Certificate
Process

8. Questions

9. What is self awareness?
To be knowledgeable about your own
strengths and areas for development,
values, your ability to work with others
and factors which motivate you to
achieve.

10. Why is it important?
Match
Career
yourself Confidence
Planning
to jobs
Employers Interview
Expect It Questions

11. 4 areas to cover
1.Understanding and knowing yourself
2.Personal Values, Motivation, Drive and
Energy
3.Relating to Others
4.My Future Planning

12. Understanding and
knowing yourself
Your paragraph needs to address:
• Your three key strengths, related to potential
employment options, with examples of how you have
developed and demonstrated these
• An area /skill, related to potential employment options,
you need to develop, together with a realistic action
plan for overcoming your area for development

14. Your area for
VERY Your key
development
ENJOYABLE strengths here!
here!
QUITE
ENJOYABLE
NOT
ENJOYABLE
NO SOME LOTS OF
EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE

15. Evidencing your skills?
University course projects
Part time jobs / holiday work
Industrial / commercial placements
Voluntary work
Travelling
Leisure activities (if relevant)

16. Be a STAR!
• Brief background about the
Situation situation - in context
• Providing more detail - how often,
Task how many, how much you did etc
• Actions you took – specify YOUR
Actions part in solving the problem
• Describe the POSITIVE outcome
Result that happened

17. A STAR Answer
Situation
A good example of my organisational skills can be taken from my
internship with Tesco last summer, where I was responsible for managing
the marketing of various staff development events.
Task
I noticed that attendance at these events had dropped by 30% over the
past 3 years and wanted to do something to improve these numbers.
Action
I designed a new promotional booklet to go out to all departments. I also
included a rating sheet to collect feedback on past events and organised
internal briefing sessions to raise awareness of what the staff
development department could offer the employees.
Result
I utilised some of the ideas I received, made our internal systems more
efficient and raised attendance by 18% in the first year.

18. Personal Values, Motivation,
Drive and Energy
Your paragraph needs to address:
• Your work values and how they may impact on
your career choices
• A significant achievement of yours, which
demonstrates your drive, energy and motivation
to achieve a goal

19. Work Values
For your work to be satisfying, it must also
be compatible with your values. Work
values are things which are important to
you in a job.

20. What are your work values?

21. Significant Achievement

22. How did
you
ensure
What success? What
motivated skills did
you? you utilise
or
develop?

23. Example
To raise £500 for a local hospital, I persuaded
four friends to join me last summer in a
sponsored cycle around Cornwall. As well as
planning the routes, I arranged publicity and
secured business sponsorship. I achieved this by
phoning and writing to local companies,
approaching business associations and
negotiating publicity with the local press and
radio station. When severe rain threatened the
event, I convinced a local hotel to give us free
accommodation and a donation in return for
publicity in the local newspaper. The final sum
raised was £750.

24. Relating to Others
Your paragraph needs to address:
• An example of a time when you have worked in
a team to achieve a task
• A situation where you have worked or dealt
successfully with a difficult person. Consider
how you managed your emotions, recognised
their point of view and achieved a positive
solution

25. What are the advantages of working in a team?
What makes a great team?

26. What makes a great team?
• Shared goals • Responding positively to
• Clearly defined roles constructive criticism
• Active membership • Respect
• Achievable goals • Motivation
• Leadership • Self awareness
(individually and as a team)
• Equally valued • Have a plan
opinions • Recognising strengths
• Diverse backgrounds • Inclusion

27. Dealing with difficult people
Manage your own
emotions
Positive Actions

28. Gordon Ramsey deals with a
difficult customer

29. Top tips
Focus on
Stay Show
positive
empathy
calm actions
Don’t take Use your
it body
personally language

30. Your Future Planning
Your paragraph needs to address:
• Identify possible career options having
reflected on your strengths, values, and ability
to relate to others
• Identify the next steps to prepare for your
career options.

32. What are your next steps to
plan for your career?

33. Statement Marking
Exercise

34. Self Awareness Resources

35. Self Awareness Resources

36. Self Awareness Resources
www.prospects.ac.uk
http://destinations.ljmu.ac.uk
www.careerplayer.com/psychometrics.aspx
http://www.windmillsonline.co.uk/interactive/index.html
https://nextstep.direct.gov.uk/PLANNINGYOURCAREER/SKILLSHEALT
HCHECKPages/default.aspx
http://icould.com/buzz/
http://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/strengthtest