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Chapter 7 Exploring Career Information: Expand Your Horizons

Chapter 7 Exploring Career Information: Expand Your Horizons. “Knowledge is power, but only when it is used.” — Kahlil Gibran. Student Learning Outcomes. Brainstorm possible career options based on information you learned about your attitudes, beliefs, interests, personality, and skills.

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Chapter 7 Exploring Career Information: Expand Your Horizons

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  1. Chapter 7 Exploring Career Information:Expand Your Horizons “Knowledge is power, but only when it is used.” —Kahlil Gibran

  2. Student Learning Outcomes • Brainstorm possible career options based on information you learned about your attitudes, beliefs, interests, personality, and skills. • Adopt a strategy to approach occupational research that will enhance your efficiency and effectiveness in your career decision making. • Research print and online sources of information to use in further clarifying your career choices. • Develop your critical thinking skills to analyze information about specific occupations and career-related opportunities using library materials and online resources. • Confirm or revise your first impressions about your top career choices.

  3. Brainstorm Career Options • An important step in the career planning process. • Cultivate a brainstorming mindset. • Generate possibilities. • Develop a long list of occupational ideas. • Don’t limit yourself; consider even the most outrageous ideas.

  4. Career Paths • Also known as “Career ladders.” • Routes to advancement within an organization. • Once you understand where you fit in an organization, you can prepare to move “up the ladder.”

  5. Understanding Common Organizational Divisions • The world of work contains broad fields such as business, education, government, healthcare, non-profits. • These broad fields share common functional needs and organizational units such as accounting, payroll and disbursement, human resources, public relations, research and development.

  6. Common Organizational Divisions • Administration • Corporate Relations • Distribution • Engineering • Finance • Sales

  7. Sample Career Paths in Business • [Note to Production: Please put in Exhibit 7.1 page 139 (Sample Career Paths in Business)]

  8. Career Research Strategies • Decide which occupations to research. • Prioritize ideas. • Research the industry, functional areas. • Explore industry trends, current events. • Identify relevant professional associations. • Use web resources to identify employers.

  9. Government Employment Opportunities • More than 18 million people employed by all branches of government. • Within 5 years, almost half of federal government current employees will be eligible to retire. • America’s Job Bank www.jobbankinfo.org • Federal Jobs Digest www.fedjobs.com • Search www.usajobs.opm.gov

  10. U.S. Department of Labor Resources • O*NET: online.onetcenter.org • Career Info Net (fast-growing jobs): www.Careerinfonet.org • Occupational Outlook Handbook includes salary ranges: www.bls.gov/oco

  11. Employer Directories Employer directories provide information about specific companies with current job openings. • Employer’s name/address • Size in terms of sales • Number of employees • Names of executives Yellow Pages: www.yellowpages.com

  12. Locate high-level company information. Obtain telephone numbers/addresses. Locate company Web pages. Obtain financial information. Monitor company news. Review public opinion. Identify international business resources. Explore an industry. Locate professional associations. Find career-related conference/meetings. Research non-profit organizations. Learn if you would want to work at a company. Why Conduct Research?

  13. Printed Sources of Information • Newspapers • Trade journals • Magazines • In-house bulletins and announcements Fact:Want ads contain only 15% of available job openings.

  14. Computer Software Resources Usually found in your local College Career Center. • CIS/Eureka: Career Information System Software providing occupational information related to your state’s occupational resources • GIS: Guidance Information System • DISCOVER Identifies career sources and assists in decision making • SIGI 3: System of Interactive Guidance and Information Clarifies and matches values with occupations

  15. The Internet • Library resource centers • Career sites • Blogs • Podcasts • Industry searches

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