Learning Disabilities/Career Mentorship

Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page.

Note - make sure you have the right understanding of these phrases

Identify Passions

• What Colour is Your Parachute

• Review Quick Job Hunting Map

• PO Bryson

Skill Fields

A1 - Machine Skills

• Cooking, Culinary Skills

A2 - Outdoor, Travelling Skills

• Skiing, Recreation, Hiking, Camping, Cycling
• Creating, planning, outdoor activities

B1 - Detail / Follow-Through Skills

• Implementing Decisions
• Rendering support services
• Applying what others have developed
• Directed production of (kind of thing)

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• Consistently tackles tasks ahead of time;
• Adept at finding ways to speed up a job

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• Resource expert; Resource broker; Making and using contacts effectively

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• Approving - keeping confidences or confidential information

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• Facilitating / Simplifying other people's finding things;
• Orderly organizing of data or records
• Organizing written data according to a prescribed plan or criteria

B2 - Numerical, Financial, Accounting, Financial (Money) Management Skills

• Extremely economical; skilled at allocating scarce financial resources

C1 - Influencing, Persuading Skills

• Develop rapport / trust in the minds and hearts of others; Encouraging People
• Helping People identify their own intelligent self-interest
• Persuading; Good at reasoning persuasively / developing a thought; Influencing the ideas or attitutdes of others
• Promoting