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Chapter Two Planning Your Career

Chapter Two Planning Your Career. Why People Work. Work to meet their needs, wants, and goals . If work doesn’t make goals possible people often times are frustrated or unhappy. People work to gain a sense of identity – of who they are.

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Chapter Two Planning Your Career

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  1. Chapter TwoPlanning Your Career

  2. Why People Work • Work to meet their needs, wants, and goals. • If work doesn’t make goals possible people often times are frustrated or unhappy. • People work to gain a sense of identity – of who they are. • Work is typically one of THE central activities in a person’s life so it often becomes a way of life, strongly linked to that person’s identity. • For example, as a student, your main activities center around school, sports you play, clubs you belong to, or other school-related activities. • When adults are introduced, the first question asked is “What do you do for a living?

  3. Factors Affecting Career Choice • Values are the things in life that are important to you. • Develop over time. Often reflect values in your home. By the time your in high school you may start to have some values that diverge from your family. • Lifestyle is the way people choose to live their lives based on the values they have chosen or rejected. • Your lifestyle is evident to others by the clothes you wear, the things you buy, rent, use, do, enjoy and feel. With careful planning, a career can be a rewarding and satisfying means to the lifestyle you desire. • An aptitude is a natural physical or mental ability that allows you to do certain tasks well. • Certain types of work requires certain types of aptitudes. • Interests are the things you like to do and the reasons you enjoy doing them. • By examining the things you enjoy, you can better choose a career that has similar activities. That way you might actually have some fun at work. • Personality – your personality is made up of the many individual qualities and traits that make you unique. • Examples: creativity, sense of humor and your general attitude. Most jobs require people with a certain type of personality.

  4. Steps in Career Planning • Self-analysis – decide what you want. • Determine wants and needs, values and lifestyle, aptitudes and interests, & personality. • Research – find out information that you’ll need later. • Utilize internet, books, pamphlets, college or high school career centers and libraries. Interview people in the field your interested. Observe the job. • Plan of Action – set your goals and determine steps it will take to achieve them. • Make a plan... Short-term and long-term? What do you have to do this year? Next year? College? Other Training? • Reevaluation – Because the world is changing quickly you’ll need to reevaluate every five years or so. Plan for the next five years!

  5. Importance of Goals • A goal is a desired end toward which efforts are directed. • We all need goals in order to have a sense of direction and purpose in life. There are three types of goals. • Short-term – expect to reach in a few days or weeks. • Intermediate goals – are those you wish to accomplish in the next few months or year. • Long-term goals – those which you expect to meet in the next five to ten years.

  6. Making the Right Choices • How can you possibly decide what you want to do with the rest of your life while you’re in high school? • It is hard! And maybe a bit unrealistic. Of course, things may change ... You might change. • However, SOOOOO many people are locked in to jobs they don’t like because of decisions they made in their late teens and early twenties. • Locked in – a feeling that you cannot change to another type of work. Usually because you can’t afford to take the cut in pay that accompanies starting over. • So the best you can do is try to make educated and enlightened choices based on knowing THYSELF!

  7. Job Search Techniques • Finding the right job takes hard work, careful planning, and often a great deal of time. • Dissatisfaction leads to frequent job changes, which may damage your employment chances in the future. • Work history – record of the jobs you’ve held and how long you stayed with each employer. Provides important information to employers. • For example: If you switched jobs six times in the past year they may think you’re immature and unstable. • Key elements to a successful job search: • Get organized • Make a plan • Follow through • Don’t give up

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