Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog! Today I will be talking with you guys about a project I did recently called Back To The Future ➡️. In this project we were focusing on Habits of success, Planning resources, Skills assessment, Representing yourself publicly and personally, Employment marketing.
All of these also helped us with the end goal in mind of pitching ourselves to two “Dragons” in a sort of mock job interview. Have you seen Shark Tank or Dragons Den? It was like that, except we pitched ourselves for 7 minutes, and then there was 7 minutes of discussion. Mine went really well, but I will tell you about it at the end of the post.
The first thing we did in this project was look into our skills, interests, and personalities. To do this, there were various activities, including doing some quizzes to discover our personalities, and which jobs would best fit us. Here is a link to those quizzes. In the end, some of the different skills they said I had were manual dexterity, numerical ability, and verbal ability. I don’t think I specifically learned anything about myself, as I already know myself very well, but it was interesting to see what the quizzes thought of me. Here is a short paragraph I wrote on my thoughts of the test.
I feel like I agree with everything, except some of the jobs. Maybe they would be best for me, but I know that some of them I don’t want to do, and I want to do others. Also, there’s that thing that for a job you either get it because you want the money, or you like it. Preferably it would be both, but I think I would prefer the money so that I can do my own fun things outside of work. I specifically agreed with the jobs that were Other Professional Occupations In Therapy And Assessment, Program Leaders And Instructors In Recreation, Sport And Fitness, and Recreation, Sports And Fitness Policy Researchers, Consultants And Program Officers. I have always wanted to be a doctor, and I think they meet my values very well.
After we learned about ourselves, we looked at how we are going to get there. We looked into the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, which highlighted different habits that will help us to where we want to be. Here is a link to the different habits that the PLP teachers put together for us. I highly recommend reading it, it is very helpful, and even if you only start with one of the habits, I guarantee that it will help you.
Next, we learned about how we market ourselves for potential employers. We wrote a cover letter and a resume, both of which I will attach here.
And last but certainly not least, is the pitch to the dragons. We started with this basic document, and ended with a full-blown, 7 minute pitch, and I think everyone was actually happy with theirs. In preparing for the pitch, I asked myself a lot of questions that I thought the Dragons would ask, and came up with good answers for all of them. Honesty, I didn’t really learn a lot about myself when preparing, or after. I think that I know myself very well.
Here are the feedback forms the dragons gave me. I am quite happy with the feedback I got! The experience of pitching to the Dragons was great for the future, because it taught me that practice really pays off. Even if you only practice once a night for a week, you do get pretty good at it.
I’m glad that Mr. Scheewee said I would be a definite hire! I think the reason for it was all of the different examples I gave. I used rowing, PLP, piano, climbing, etc. The skills and examples I learned and gave in this pitch will be very helpful in applying for jobs in the real world. When an employer asks questions to give examples, I believe that I can give a sophisticated answer.
