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UpSkill With Smith Gruppe To Jumpstart Your Career!
73% of first jobs are based solely on "Soft Skills." Utilize our platform to identify and master these skills to begin a productive career. One in every for employers leave entry level jobs vacant.
Step 1 - Quiz
We start you with a scenario-based intuitive quiz. The questions create contexts and enviroments where you decide on your priorities by arranging your answers or choosing from multiple answers to assess your skills. Once you are done with your questions, your results are immediately available.
Key Takeaway: Provides a baseline for aptitude assessments, core skills, and soft skills.
Step 2 - Aptitude Assessment
Based on the concept of sense and purpose, your aptitude is assessed across four key vectors, Spirit, Profession, Purpose, and Reward. the results present your placement across the four vectors to provide a cumulative idea of your aptitudes. - Our proprietary model goes well beyond Myers-Briggs and many of the older more dated personality type assessements and assesses for substantive aptitude value that actual "Knowledge Workers" should possess.
Key Takeaway: Discover your top talent with less time, effort and and expenses.
Step 3 - Analyze For Soft Skills
Patented AI-Driven Logic of assessing aptitude and "Soft Skills" allows you to assess for various soft skills including communication, adaptability, leadership, teamwork, and much more. This allows individual users, human resources, and executives alike to see exactly where they need to "Up-Skill" continuing education courses or top-grade your top talent using AI.
Key Takeaway: Skills management for businesses of all sizes (SBE - Small Business Enterprise), Large Business Enterprise, Lower-Middle Market Companies, and Not-For-Profit Organizations)
Step 4 - "UpSkill"
Once appropiate continuing education, professional development, or leadership development courses are identified, you can "Up-Skill" your current capacity and unleash hidden potentials with various OPPP (One-Page Personal Plans) from in-house or Smith Gruppe-provided resources.
Key Takeaway: Allows for recognition of where Strengths and Weaknesses are in your skill-sets, and further allows for you to align those strengths with the perfect career opportunity.
Step 5 - Increase Core Skills
Increase your "Core Skills," effectiveness, and proficiency levels through direct integration with your existing skills database or online profiles to build accelerated digital profiles you can track and share with prospective employers if you are an individual, across business units and organizations if you are a human resource manager; or an executive looking to formalize your C-Suite with the proper levels of leadership and talent.
Smith Gruppe can assist you with the building of your digital profiles, as well as build and maintain your skills databases.
Key Takeaway: Bridge skill-gaps, nurture and develop talent; and reduce attrition and employee churn.
Step 6 - Act/Track
Act upon immediate career growth opportunities and track your path digitially. You are always in control of your own "Destiny" and better prepared to seize upon the best and most fulfilling career paths by having all your information in your hands. ---- A powerful AI-Driven model that delivers unprecedented personal and career awareness!
Key Takeaway: Collate skills of your talent in a digital book.
Career Planning Gives You A Head Start
Career planning for high school and college students hepls identify potential carrer paths and areas of study based upon your unique aptitudes and core skills, is a predictor of success in academic programs.
The more prepared you are, the greater your chances for success in deciding on a career path, developing skills "UpSkilling" and gaining the experience you need to guide you in securing a fulfilling and rewarding job at graduatiion.
Smith Gruppe provides you with the most advanced AI and Machine Learning Educational And Career Assessment Software to assist you in your career planning efforts, beginning in high school. Our software allows you to selct the most fitting and appropriate educational and training programs, choose a college, a major, and career path to pursue your dreams.
We also support you in identifying the skills and experience to compete at the highest level for jobs, internships, and professional development programs.
UpSkill Career Assessment Platform Provides Relief From Career Anxiety
To embark upon a course toward a richly rewarding career path, you must first understand where you are at and where you are starting from.
The UpSkill AI and Machine Learning Education And Career Assessement tool is the first step in assessing how to find the best career fit for you.
If you are confused, stuck, or have no idea what your career preferences and interests are, the UpSkill career assessment platform is a great place to start.
The key to this step is committing to 20 minutes weekly for a few months as you build your digital career profile. As you complete each weekly sprint, pay particular attention to the ten essential "soft skills" provided in each weekly report, for they are the essence of aligning your aptitudes and core hard and soft skills to a career that is a perfect fit for you. The UpSkill career assessment platform gets you started by clarifying, but you must look deeply at the ten essential "soft skills" you possess.
The UpSkill assessment platform can help in several ways:
1. Identify strengths and weaknesses in the hard and soft skills necessary for you to be successful in a specific occupation.
2. Recommend certifications and courses that will improve the hard and soft skill areas that you are weakeswt in.
Understanding where you are removes the anxiety and confusion about next steps to succeed in your career pursuits.
Top 3 Career Strategy Steps
You are a unique human being with a plethora of possibilities before you.As you move forward on your career journey, avoid being too hard on yourself for not pursuing the same career path as others around you. The journey is different for each and every individual because we have different gifts and strengths.
With this in mind, here are the top three strategic approaches to finding your way forward:
1. Consult with others to hear their career stories. Listen attentively to the qualities that they feel set them apart, and got them to where they are; and what actions they took to get them there.
This may seem like common sense, but we encourage you to dive deeper. As you capture their stories, conduct research, and compile information, focus on similarities in your hard and soft skills; and how you may leverage their experiences to your benefit.
REMEMBER, they are not you. Soak in the lessons they learned, so that you do not repeat their mistakes; but don't stop asking if it doesn't appear that it may work for you.
2. Gain information from credible and knowledgeable soruces.
When conducting your research, you may often get more information than what you feel is necessary; so it is vital to ensure you are gathering information from places and sources you trust.
No matter how well-intentioned, biased opinions are not helpful if the person offering the advice is inexperienced and does not have a track record of success in that career discipline.
Should you have a particular field that greatly interest you, go deeper into your exploration by volunteering or seeking an internship. Read job descriptions, seek out entrance requirements, research market trends for the industry, and join student or professional organizations in that space.
The Smith Gruppe UpSkill platform is aligned with businesses and industry throughout the United States and maintains and exhaustive list of internship and job shadowing opportunities within its databases.
3. Establish Career Goals
It is often stated that if your goals are in your head, they are merely dreams, but if they are written down, then they are goals and plans. Establish career goals, write them down, and stick to them.
Establishing small, time-sensitive, and immediate goals will validate your decision-making process and make achieving your goals more realistic. For example, "I will contact at least two trade associations who can help me with professional training this week."
Make Informed Educational And Career Decisions
Making an informed decsion requires data and information on your strengths, weaknesses, hard skills, soft skills and core competencies. The more informed you are, the more comfortable and confident you will be in the choice you make.
Furthermore, making an informed decsion must include an understanding of your unique charactersistics and skills; and how they relate to various occupations and college majors.
Factors that must be considered in the decsion-making process are: hard skills, soft skills, core skills, abilities, interests, personalities, values, past work and leisure experiences, lifestyle you would like as well as information about which jobs in the marketplace align with those skills - the availability, entrance requirements, and growth potential in that field or discipline.
Steps we suggest that you follow:
1. Assess yourself
2. Evaluate your environment and tasks necessary to succeed
3. Identify schools and occupations to explore
4. Work with Smith Gruppe to "UpSkill" yourself, develop stratetgies, and stay motivated for success
Education And Career Planning Next Steps
The "UpSkill" platform can help you understand yourself, choose a college major and embark upon making a career choice. Our mission is to help you clarify your goals, career direction, and methods for achieving your goals.
What we have found is that once you begin to better understand yourself, you will alos improve your self-confience and overall esteem.
Contact us if you are in the process of choosing a college major, or if you are seeking to identify your perfect-fit career. to get started now give us a call to schedule an assessment to begin the process at 980-221-9377 or schedule an appointment here online.
Additional Things To Consider:
The process of choosing a major/career is a decision that requires extensive thought, planning, and work. What do I want to do? This is a huge question.
Let us break the question down into smaller questions for you, such as:
1. What do I really want to do on a day-to-day basis?
2. Where do I want to be in life one year from now? Five Years? Ten Years?
3. What do I want to have accomplished at the end of one year?
4. What kind of people do I enjoy being around and working with?
5. What kind of culture or work environment do I find myself being in most comfortably?
6. What kind of culture or work environment sets me up to succeed, and allows me to be most creative and productive?
7. What inspires me and drives me to do my best?
These answers will assist you in identifying your strengths, and supported by our data which you will have as a "Digital Profile" of yourself; will guide you in deciding what your contribution will be to the world that you live in.
The choice of a mojor and subsequent career choice is a vital aspect not only of ones mental health but also of ones physical and emotional well-being.
Our research has shown that work satisfaction and a fulfilling career is drectly related to employee absenteeism and job turnover!
The Education And Career Assessment Development Report Includes:
This report helps students identify and explore the following:
1. The Top 5 Interest Areas Aligned With Their Hard Skill, Soft Skills, Core Competencies, And Personality Types
2. Educational Disciplines And Areas Of Study Directly Related To Your Highest Quiz Results
3. Direct Access To The "UpSkill" Occupational And Workforce Development Databases To Further Explore Relevant Career Paths Including Skills And Tasks Required, And Employment Trends In That Industry Sector
4. Specific "UpSkill" Areas That Allow You To Increase Your Earning P:otential By Taking Courses Or Gaining Additional Certifications
At the Education and Career Development Level, there are four key elements to how execute, implement and delvier best practices that drive results:
1. Small Learning Communities That Are Technology Enmabled By Smith Gruppe Infrastructure Edge Data Centers
2. College Preparatory Asynchronous Curriculums With Career Themes
3. Direct Engagement Via Partnerships With Employers, Higher Education Institutions, And Broader Economic Development Stakeholders
4. A Sequenced, Comprehensive Hybrid Learning Management System Component