Beyond Values, Interests, Personality, and Skills - Identity Within the Process of Self-Assessment

Career Level: Intermediate career services professionals
Competency: Consulting
Fee: $69 (member); $89 (nonmember);

Summary
The pandemic resulted in many changes, including in the field of career services. The idea that career services professionals begin with empathy when making decisions about services, scalability, and programming is an example. This increased focus on empathy includes 1:1 work in that helping students simply explore their V.I.P.S. when engaging in self-assessment is not enough. Research suggests that we must also help students explore their career identity. This webinar will attempt to introduce a new framework to help students understand the role of identity expression within their career planning and decision-making while helping employers leverage values-based interviewing.

Following this program, you will be able to:
- Identify methods to help students begin exploring their identity makeup to assess values and share their story;
- Understand the relationship between subconscious identity and work-related values to aid student career decision making; and
- Develop hiring practices that more effectively align candidate identity and role purpose.
Presenters

Mike Zucker, Career Experience Team Lead, San Antonio College
Mike Zucker is a two-time graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a Master of Arts in counseling. He dedicated and enthusiastic career services professional with more than 16 years of experience working in a large public university serving college students to identify and address their career planning, experiential learning, and job search readiness needs. Starting as a GA and working to become a senior career counselor III at UTSA before accepting a role as ad AD at UC San Diego, he has effectively served a diver-se array of majors, industries, and classification, from education to liberal arts, and fine arts to physical and life sciences and from first-year college students to recently degreed graduate students. Zucker is committed to helping college students make the most of their investment in higher education. He was appointed as Gender Equity sub-committee chair for the 2007 NCAA recertification process, in collaboration with UTSA athletics. He has recently presented at the 2018 Advancing Improvement in Education Conference and the 2021 UT System Career Services Virtual PD. He facilitated the Spring 2021 UTSA College of Education and Human Development Educator Symposium.