Unleash Your Inner Tiger: Discover and Leverage Your Unique Strengths

This interactive and fun workshop for undergraduate and graduate students will help you identify and articulate your unique strengths using the CliftonStrengths online assessment (taken before the workshop). At the workshop, you will hear how other Princeton students have used and maximized their strengths to get inspiration for telling your own story. If you are new to strengths, we'll share a bit more about the basics before diving in.If you have already taken CliftonStrengths, you'll focus on applying them. We will go through a structured exercise to help you identify examples of your unique strengths in action in your academics and campus activities and jobs. During this exercise, you will draft key points to incorporate into your application materials for internships, jobs, or graduate school. You will also have an opportunity to practice talking about these strengths in a supportive, small group environment and identify ways you can continue to use those strengths in your daily life.

Meet the Facilitator: Kate Coppola is the director of career advising and partnerships at the Center for Career Development at Princeton. Kate has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Arts in Career Counseling from Wake Forest University. Before working at Princeton, she led career and leadership development programs for Teach For America corps members and alumni, advised students at the Wasserman Center for Career Development at New York University, taught career counseling courses at Wake Forest University, and held some other interesting roles along the way including interning with children’s television host Mister Rogers, interning with Senator Dianne Feinstein, and managing people in an industrial supply warehouse. For the last eight years, Kate has led career advising and strategic efforts for Princeton undergraduates. Kate loves CliftonStrengths and has used and facilitated strengths workshops for the past 15 years. Her Top 5 talent themes are Learner, Input, Achiever, Relator, and Individualization. Kathleen L. Mannheimer works as a career adviser focused on business careers with the Center for Career Development at Princeton. She has held numerous roles at the Center focused on different career fields and has worked with graduate students and also alumni. Her background spans a wide range of industries and roles prior to Princeton, including nonprofit leadership, outplacement counseling, and corporate human resources management with organizations including General Electric and a large property and casualty insurance company. She has a Master’s degree in counseling, a Bachelors of Arts degree in English from Dickinson College and is certified in resume writing and career coaching. Kathleen has worked with strengths for many years, and loves to assist students in working with theirs. Her top 5 talent themes are: Maximizer, Achiever, Relator, Arranger, Individualization.

What to Expect: Mini Workshop (90 mins. total)

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