Finding your strengths - your path to professional orientation

You already have a wealth of experience, skills and values - even if these are not always immediately visible. This offer helps you to discover your personal strengths and consider how you can use them for your professional future.

Cem Alexander Sünter, SchlaU-Werkstatt für Migrationspädagogik

Why is it important to know your own strengths?

If you know, what you do well can and what you important is, falls it lighter: 

    one suitable Profession to Find 

    itself targeted educate further

    self-confident to perform 

    with other about Your Goals to speak 

    Questions for self-reflection

    Use the following questions to think about yourself. You can use these alone or talk to a trusted person:

    What gives me energy?

    Which Activities make give me pleasure? What interested me especially?

    What are my most important values?

    What is me in the Life important (e.g. Justice, Security, Creativity)?

    What resources do I have?

    Did I Access to Technology, Insurances, financial Means or other Aids?

    What have I already achieved?

    Which Experience have me collected - professional, private or in the Volunteering?

    What skills do I have?

    What can I good? E.G. organize, communicate, handcrafted work?

    Who will support me?

    Which People stand me to the Page (family, friend*inside, Known)?

    What contacts are there in my area?

    Gives it Counseling centers, neighbor*inside or Clubs, which help can?

    ➡ You can the Strengths map also download print and then fill in - one helpful Possibility, Your Thoughts to sort and new Perspectives to Win. 

    Where you Support Find:

    You must this Path not alone Go. It gives many free of charge Offers, that you accompany can:

    Here are some examples of current project implementations

    START

    Self-determined participation in the labor market

    to the program

    Workforce Integration for Newcomers (WIN)

    Integration into the labor market

    to the program

    THERE

    Career guidance, counseling, empowerment & inclusion

    to the program

    If you would like to find out more about our project work, please take a look at the website of International Rescue Committee Germany um.

    Take a moment and think about which child from your work context would benefit from practicing affirmations. Then take a look at the Affirmation card set of the Vor-Sprung project and select a card that suits this child. Think about how you can use this card to work together with the child. Again, use the pen and paper you have provided

     

    The child I'm thinking of always tries very hard not to make mistakes. If he does make a mistake, the reaction is very strong. The child often reacts with great anger, which it directs at itself and sometimes also at others.

    Please take a moment and have a look at the Affirmation card set of the Vor-Sprung project.

    Then select a card that suits this child. Think about how you can use this card to work together with the child. Again, use the pen and paper you have provided.

    Take a moment to answer the following questions about the affirmation you have chosen. You are welcome to use the pen and paper provided.

    ➡️ Which affirmation have you chosen?

    ➡️ How does the selected affirmation make you feel?

    ➡️ What negative belief could be behind this affirmation? Or how could you reformulate the selected affirmation into a negative one?

    ➡️ Can you remember where this negative belief came from? From your parents? From school?

    ➡️ Where does this negative belief limit you? Where does it make your life difficult or prevent you from doing something?