Academic Affairs Program for University Career Exploration

CULTIVATE YOUR EXPERIENCE - PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

UExplore's activities (September 2008 - June 2009) have been designed to help participants accomplish their UC San Diego professional goals by taking that crucial first step: identifying their best-matching, compatible potential career path. Communication and participation play a key role encouraging enriching university career exploration. An ideal participant will be open-minded, an active listener, and committed to engaging in group discussions and exercises.

Attendance and participation are requisite for UExplore activities. The program of activities includes:

Welcome orientation
Meyer-Brigg Type Indicator personality sorter assessment and debriefing
Career enrichment explorations
Career panel presentations

Please view UExplore's calendar containing a schedule (UPDATED on December 19, 2008) of the program activities.

Please note: Costs are not charged to the department or to the participant for the scheduled program events.

MEYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR

Participants will begin by taking an individualized personality type assessment, using the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality sorter tool.

A professional consultant, from UC San Diego Staff Education and Development, will analyze the results and provide an in-depth debriefing customized for UExplore participants. Together they will discuss how various personality types are drawn to, satisfied with, and excel at certain career fields and professions.

Participants will learn how to use their individual MBTI results as a tool for comparing their personal interests and values to the information and knowledge shared during the career enrichment exploration and career plane presentations that follow.

In UExplore's final seminar, participants will revisit MBTI principles, evaluating their personal exploration of UC San Diego careers and identifying potential career paths to pursue.

CAREER ENRICHMENT EXPLORATIONS

UExplore continues with customized presentations from UC San Diego Career Connection and Staff Education and Development. These presentations will provide tools and concepts to foster and enriching career exploration process.

Campus Resources/Tools For Success
Career Planning
Assessing Your Skills
Setting Goals
Listening Profile
Networking

CAREER PANELS

Career panels spotlighting the breadth of professions at UC San Diego are also a part of the sessions. Career panelists will share their career path stories, describe the nature and variety of their work, and pass on tips and advice for those considering a career in these areas:

Academic Personnel
Administrative Support
Communications and External Relations
Facilities Administration
Financial Administration
Human Resources
Information Technology
Laboratory Research
Program Administration
Student Affairs

YOUR PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO

Participants will receive guidance on how to assemble a professional portfolio, which includes your resume and samples of your work. A well-designed portfolio will reflect interests, values, talent, experience and skills, and can be customized to particular career fields of interest. The portfolio is a next step one can take to cultivate and grow a UC San Diego Career.

Please note: The mission of UExplore is to assist participants in identifying realistic and appropriate career and professional development goals. UExplore is not a training program and is not intended to be a guarantee towards a future promotion or interview for a future position.

CONTACT INFORMATION

UExplore Program Coordinator
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0001
La Jolla, CA 92093-0001
Phone: 858.822.7990
Fax: 858.822.0072
Email: uexplore@ucsd.edu