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Navigating Career Crossroads: Strategies for Making Informed Choices

When facing career crossroads, consider personal interests, personality traits, and goals to align with job opportunities. Evaluate your human capital, education options, and learning opportunities for career growth. Explore different job and career paths to make decisions based on long-term goals and personal fulfillment. Prepare for the future by analyzing your priorities and aspirations to find work that is fulfilling and rewarding. Remember to weigh all factors at each career crossroad for a successful professional journey.

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Navigating Career Crossroads: Strategies for Making Informed Choices

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  1. Career Crossroads

  2. What do YOU do when you come to a crossroad? B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  3. What job or career choices will you make in your lifetime? B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  4. Strategies for Personal Choices B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  5. Individual Interests • Consider key questions when identifying interests • Use career interest inventories • Research careers in clusters based on inventory results • Match career paths with personal interests B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  6. Personality • Identify personal qualities, values, and goals • Choose a career path to match personal qualities • Develop personal qualities that employers seek • Become involved in informal experiences in which qualities for success are learned B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  7. Personal Priorities & Goals • Analyze ideals and principles that are important to you • Identify types of work that would make you feel you are making a difference • Identify types of work where you have developed skills • Identify specific achievements you want to realize • Find work that is enjoyable and challenging B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  8. Strategies for Education Choices B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  9. Invest in Your “Human Capital” “Human capital” = the complete set of skills that a person has acquired B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  10. An investment in your “human capital” can increase productivity and increase earnings . . . B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  11. Community College, College & University Programs • Begin planning early for college • Choose a school that satisfies your goals and reasons for going to college • Decide on the size of school in which you would be most successful • Decide how close to home you would like to be • Investigate options for online courses • Consider costs • Consider your high school record and performance • Compare available college/university choices B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  12. Occupational Training Programs • Specialize in a specific field of employment • Consider occupational training programs that • match your talents, skills, and interests • Evaluate carefully the quality and content of any program before enrolling B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  13. Other LearningOpportunities • Investigate internships and apprenticeships • Find out about military programs • Take advantage of opportunities for continuing education B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  14. Strategies for Job and Career Choices B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  15. Job or Career? B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  16. Job OR Career? Is there a CAREER in sight? Does anyone see a JOB anywhere? B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  17. Job AND Career Thanks for getting me to the hospital on time. I have to assist in surgery at 9:00. I love my job as a taxi driver. It’s been a good source of extra income since I retired. And, it gets me out of the house! B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  18. Job or Career?Part 1 B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  19. Job or Career?Part 2 B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  20. Job or Career? Let’s share our findings! B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  21. Work Strategies- Jobs & Careers • Select jobs for short-term purposes • Plan a career for the long term • Use jobs to supplement income when needed • Use jobs as stepping-stones to careers • Think of a career as a lifetime investment B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  22. What are some of the crossroads you will come to as you plan your career? B-3.01 - Job/Career Choices

  23. Remember to considerall of these factorswhen you reach eachCareer Crossroad.

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