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COMM 202 Tutorial 2 – Skills Matrix and Networking
Week 4, Tutorial 2 | TA: Jaime Reston | February 29th/30th
“Hand in yo dang skills matrix!” -Kanye West
Agenda
1 – My Strengths 2 – Skills Matrix3 – Peer Editing4 – What’s Next?
Week 4, Tutorial 2 | TA: Jaime Reston | February 29th/30th
AchieverRestorativeHarmonyPositivityFuturistic
What Do You Want?
Skills Matrix
Skills that Kills | TA: Jaime Reston | February 29th/30th
The Foundation For EverythingCondensed for your resume
Perfected for your cover letter
Expanded on in interviews
SituationTaskActionResultLink
Situation
Task
Action
Result
Link
Skill Experience Situation Task Action Result Link
Running UBC Rowing Athlete
Wanted to help out with recruiting novices for rowing team
Help out with recruiting novices for rowing team
I ran with the people trying out and I won cause I really like running.
I won the race
What’s Wrong With This?
Action didn’t go into enough detail (50%-60% of the story)
Action doesn’t reflect the Skill
Significance of the Result
Missing Link
More Details Needed
Not Employer-Centric
Pointless Skill
No Dragon
Situation doesn’t paint a picture
Lasts 10 seconds during an interview
Skill Experience Situation Task Action Result Link
Initiative/Leadership
UBC Rowing Athlete
UBC Rowing takes in novices each September to train. As a new rower, I had decided to get highly involved with recruiting, and decided to try and break the normal culture of disconnection between novices and varsity athletes
Find a way to involve myself with recruitment to a higher degree than normal and create a connection with those trying-out for the team so they could feel comfortable asking me questions
After attending all recruitment activities, decided to take part in the tryouts with the potential athletes, both to connect with them and to push them to try and take on a UBC rower. This involved four 2km races over 2 days, back to back with the groups
I stuck with the lead runner of each group, and even though none beat me, I had a noticeable crowd of novices around me after the runs, clearly more comfortable with asking me questions about my novice experience
Leading from the sidelines creates a culture of disconnect and isn’t a good way to lead
Situation; 20%
Task; 10%
Action; 60%
Result; 5%Link; 5%
“Pier” Review
1 INTERVIEWER + 1 APPLICANT + 1 NOTE-TAKER
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
1 INTERVIEWER + 1 APPLICANT + 1 NOTE-TAKER
What is the storyteller missing from their
story? Is it specific enough? What questions do you have? What is confusing? Is the skill relevant? Are there step-by-step actions? Is the story appropriate for an interview? Do they have an obstacles as a task?
NEXT WEEK IS LECTURE
Networking Event Feb 5th
LinkedIn Profile on Feb 6th
Follow the rubric on the blog Easy – but do ALL parts to
get full marks ( Custom URL) The first part of networking
Network Reflection Due Feb 11th
Company Research Assignment Feb 13th
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