Sample Careers and Skills | College of Arts

Sample Careers and Skills

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Skills Awareness

Developing an awareness of the skills you enjoy using and how you want to use them to engage your interests is vital in locating your career path. Here are some examples:

  • Market Researcher: Ability to Improvise, Intellectually Curious, Diligence, Leadership, Rapport Building, Non-linear thinker who Solves Problems.
  • Social Media Design: Willingness to jump into new areas. A Cultural Interpreter – discerning how business objectives interact with the world, working varied work, and switching gears.
  • Recruiting and Career Counselling: Smart, Imaginative people, Listening skills; Hearing people's fears, hopes, and motivators, master of re-frames to get others to listen, use of Empathy and Curiosity, Rapport building and engaging Communicator.
  • Fundraising: Enjoy deep conversations needed for Event Planning, Rapport building needed to Develop Strong Networks, the importance of Creative Language, and Bringing People Together, Infectious Passion when talking about their beloved causes.
  • Digital Designers: Digital Design relies just as much on a personal Aesthetic Sense as it does on their Knowledge, Tech skills combined with Risk-Taking with Ideas, and willingness to Learn Fast and Fail Forward.
  • Project Managers: Guiding, Planning, Mediating and Putting out Metaphorical Fires, helping Developers understand what Sales People need, Constant use of Soft Influence; to get help from those who do not work for you. 'Full suite' of Critical Thinking Skills – to make allies, think on your feet, and learn fast.

Want to explore more possibilities? The Academic Invest is a great place to explore occupations related to Arts. The site provides an opportunity to broaden your knowledge and reflect on your personal employability and skills. Explore Career Guides by Occupational Title or Career Guides by Majors.

Skills Sorter Activity

We learn and practice skills constantly.  Strengths are skills no one has to ask us to use and make us feel energized.  Other skills can deplete us, even if we are good at them. 

Which skills would you like to use more often?

Learning to name your skills and strengths will help you engage them intentionally and feel confident talking about them during an interview or networking opportunity.

Here is a Skill Sorter Activity to identify and understand your strengths and skills.

 

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