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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