Chapter 5

1. Chapter 5 Planning Your Career

2. What You’ll Learn • You will discover how planning can help you reach career goals in the future. • You will learn what a career plan should include. • You will set goals and make a plan for a career that interests you.

3. Discover Why planning is important. What a career plan should include. Why it’s important Planning is the surest way to achieve your goals. Lesson 5.1How Planning Helps Plan for Success Planning helps make activities a success.

4. Why Plan? • Planning helps you manage your time. • Planning helps you remember events. • Planning helps you prioritize. • Planning helps you reach goals. When you have a plan, it is harder to procrastinate(put off doing or deciding about something).

5. Prioritize and Carry Through When you have a plan, it is harder to procrastinate(put off doing or deciding about something). A plan helps you prioritize(put tasks in order). By ordering tasks from first to last or most important to least important, you will find it easier to reach your goals. Carrying out your plan gives you a feeling of accomplishment!

6. What Goes Into a Plan? You’ll want to include three important steps: • Education and Training • Jobs Along the Way • Career Research

7. Education and Training • You can get started on this step right now by working to strengthen your basic skills, such as reading, writing, and mathematics. Basic skills count in all kinds of careers. • Following high school, you may choose to continue your education or get other training. Many jobs require education past high school.

8. On-the-Job Training Apprenticeship Vocational-Technical Centers Trade Schools Community Colleges and Universities Four-Year Colleges and Universities Military Service Continuing Education Distance Education Education and Training Alternatives… Read the chart on page 86—you will need to know what each of these alternatives offer!!!

9. The Value of a College Education Why would it be wise to get a college degree in addition to work experience? • Jobs requiring a college education are growing faster than all other jobs. • Jobs requiring a college education also will usually pay more.

10. Jobs Along the Way Another important step in planning your career is planning the jobs you will hold along the way to your ultimate career goal. • Temporary job—usually last only a short while. • Part-time—working up to 30 hours a week. • Full-time job—working 40 hours or more a week.

11. Part-time job In high school or later, you may decided to take a part-time job related to a possible career choice. • You may work up to 30 hours a week. • Good way to learn about a career field that interests you.

12. Temporary Jobs A temporary job is another way to try a specific kind of work. Temporary jobs are a good idea for young people because: • They are a good way to develop skills you may need or gain work experience. • They are convenient and usually lasts only a short while (such as a particular season).

13. Full-time Job • Working full times means you will be working 40 (or more) hours per week. • You will probably work at several full-time jobs during your lifetime.

14. Career Research Be sure to include career research as a step in your career plan. Why? • You will learn about new opportunities and changes in career fields (what you learn could affect your career plan). • So you can stay informed, which will allow you to adjust your career plan as needed. When you build research into your career plan, your plan will always be up-to-date.

15. Be Prepared and Be Flexible • Personal responsibilities may affect your career plan. (You may have to delay a step in your plan until your children go to school, or you may change your plan so you can work at home.) • Be prepared for surprises. You can’t know the future. (You never know what might happen that could cause you to delay or change your plans).

16. Discover How to set goals you can reach Different kinds of goals How to make your own career plan Why it’s important A plan will show the steps that will help you reach your career goals. Lesson 5.2Designing a Plan

17. Steps to Help You Reach Your Goals • Be as specific about each goal as you can. • Put your goals in the order that you’ll do them. • Make realistic goals. • Change your goals as needed.

18. Setting goals • Short-term goal: something that you might start right away. • Medium-term goal: usually more challenging than a short-term goal. Takes longer to achieve. • Long-term goal: May take a long time to reach. Short-term and medium-term goals can sometimes help you achieve a long-term goal.

19. Remember: • When setting goals, be sure to put them in chronological order(the order in which they will happen). • The more specific and realistic your goals are, the more likely you will achieve them. • Your plan is never set in stone. Things may change over time. Keep an open mind. • The motivation to achieve your goals comes from within.

20. Attitude Counts!!! TEAMWORK • Working in teams can improve productivity and creativity. • The right attitude will make your team a success. • A good tip: Respect your teammates and you’ll find they will do the same for you.