4. Self-
Assessment
Skills Career Career
Development Management Awareness
Goal-Setting
5. Reflect on career awareness competencies from
a Canadian perspective
Identify opportunities to develop career
awareness skills
6. In pairs, discuss your career awareness
competencies from your country perspective
7. • To know what makes work environments
personally satisfying and productive; and to be
able to create these environments
• To understand the culture of my workplace
8. To identify desired organizational values and
goals
To understand industry changes and their
impact on career effectiveness
9. To have a sense of future options and
opportunities for my career
To be effective at building relationships
and support systems for my career
growth
10. How would you assess your career awareness
competencies by regards to Canadian
standards?
Watch the videos by Lionel Laroche
11. Structure of Canadian society
Technical Skills versus Soft Skills
Canadian organizations: 60% technical skills &
40% soft skills
Soft skills are measured by cultural standards
Newcomers: high technical skills, low soft
skills
Canadian professional networking:
professional peers
Change is incremental
13. How important are soft skills in your career
advancement?
What can you do to get the soft skills you
need?
14.
15. Laroche, L. (2010). ISAP 2008-Lionel Laroche [Online
video]. Canada: Ontario Council of Agencies Serving
Immigrants. Retrieved March 6, 2012, from
http://vimeo.com/17473916
University of California Berkeley (n.d.). Career
Development at UC of Berkeley. In Human Resources at
Berkeley. Retrieved February 21, 2012, from
http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/learning/career-
development