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OKINAWA, Japan - Marine Corps Community Services Marine and Family Programs Branch held an employment assistance workshop at Camp Foster Sept. 18.
“The purpose of the workshop is to help the people attending the course realize what they are looking for in a job,” said Lorra M. Baldes, a transition advisor with MCCS.
The workshop was also designed to help people realize what skills and values they can market to potential employers.
“The course is taught with the help of three decks of cards,” said Baldes. “The first deck is motivated skills, which help people realize what skills they have or would like to have for work. Motivated skills can be anything from being able to adapt to changes, following orders, or generating ideas and delegating.”
Some participants in the workshop made some surprising discoveries during the card exercise.
“As I went through the cards, I realized that some of the skills that I use all the time I really do not enjoy using,” said Jennie Hucko, a participant in the workshop. “It’s not that they are not good skills to have, but when you do something over and over, it almost becomes muscle memory. You just do not enjoy doing it anymore.”
The second deck of cards, career values, was designed to help people realize what they value in a job, according to Baldes. Career values can be anything including adventure, creativity or knowledge.
“I never realized, until I went through this workshop, that one thing I really value about every job I have had is being able to help people,” said Rowena Untalasco, a participant in the workshop. “I am attending this course to help me find what job I want to do now. I’ve been out of the career field for a couple of years because I had a child, but I am ready to get back to work.”
The third deck served as a visual aid to sort occupational interests. The deck was a collection of approximately 100 different job types from artist to zoologist.
Workshop participants had to separate the jobs into five sections: definitely interested, probably interested, indifferent, probably not interested and definitely not interested.
The purpose of this portion of the course was to show the participants what jobs are commonly available and for them to know what type of education is needed for those job fields, according to Baldes.
“Each of these cards also identifies occupational personality types,” said Baldes. “The six occupational personalities are realistic,
investigative, artistic, social, enterprising and conventional.”
By the end of the course, some students were surprised by what they learned about themselves regarding employment.
“I attended the course to help figure out what I want to do in the near future,” said Hucko. “I realized I have so many options, and for that reason I plan on attending all the other courses given for employment to help me find out exactly what I want to do.”
Workshops are offered at all bases on Okinawa. For more information, contact MCCS Marine and Family Programs Branch at 645-3151.
| Date Taken: | 09.18.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 10.04.2012 02:50 |
| Story ID: | 95690 |
| Location: | OKINAWA, JP |
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