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Career Strategy: Making Informed Decisions

Discover the importance of making informed career decisions with a step-by-step process. Learn how to evaluate choices, research careers, and reach your goals. Understand the significance of having a backup plan and continuously evaluating your decisions for success.

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Career Strategy: Making Informed Decisions

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  1. Chapter 4 Making Career Decisions Lesson 4.2 Career Strategy

  2. How to make decisions about careers How to check your career decisions Discover

  3. Career choices are important decisions. Before making a choice, you’ll want to give time and thought to all the possibilities. Why It’s Important

  4. decision-making process backup plan Key Terms

  5. Use the decision-making process to decide on a career path. The decision-making process is the series of steps that help you identify and evaluate choices. Taking It Step by Step

  6. Graphic Organizer Seven Steps to a Career Decision Step 7 Reach your career goal. Step 6 Make your decision. Step 5 Compare your choices. Step 4 Research potential careers. Step 3 Decide what careers seem interesting. Step 2 Review your career resources. Step 1 Understand what you need and want.

  7. Once you’ve put your plan into action, you need to evaluate your decision to make sure you are on the right path. Checking and Changing Direction

  8. One way to make sure that you stay on a path that’s right for you is to have a backup plan. A backup plan is an alternative course of action. Checking and Changing Direction

  9. Evaluation is an ongoing process. At each point on your career path, you’ll want to stop and evaluate where you are. Evaluate, Evaluate!

  10. I’m afraid that I’ll make the wrong career choice. How can I be 100 percent sure about my career decision? Q and A continued

  11. Start by following the decision-making steps in this book. But remember, decisions don’t have to be final. You can check and adjust your decisions along the way. Q and A

  12. One way to check your decisions along the way is to ask questions. Keep Asking Questions

  13. You may decide to continue on your career path or go back and choose a different career. Never be afraid to start over. Starting Over

  14. Business Earning money by providing goods and services Management The direction or control of a business Administration Setting and achieving the goals and rules of an organization Investigating Career Clusters Business, Management, and Administration continued

  15. If you like business, numbers, and organizing things, then you might consider a career in business, management, and administration. Investigating Career Clusters Business, Management, and Administration

  16. Why is it important to use the decision-making steps when choosing a career? The decision-making process will help you identify and evaluate your choices. Critical Thinking Review Critical Thinking Q A continued

  17. When should you stop evaluating a career decision? Never; you should continue to evaluate the career you’ve chosen to make sure it still meets your needs and wants. Critical Thinking Review Critical Thinking Q A

  18. End of Chapter 4 Making Career Decisions Lesson 4.2 Career Strategy

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