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Choosing Your Career

Choosing Your Career. Initial Activities. Could This Be You? Career Quiz Career Family Tree…week 1 Have students create folder for each class…focus on Personal Finance. Show students how to save. Self-Evaluation Inventory (email) Take career quiz (options)

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Choosing Your Career

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  1. Choosing Your Career

  2. Initial Activities • Could This Be You? Career Quiz • Career Family Tree…week 1 • Have students create folder for each class…focus on Personal Finance. Show students how to save. • Self-Evaluation Inventory (email) • Take career quiz (options) • Quizopolis…need email (Choice #1 but need email.)

  3. Major Occupational Groups • Professional Jobs • One of the highest paying • Being knowledgeable is key job skill • Involves creating, processing, storing, retrieving, and transmitting information • Ex. Lawyers, teachers, economists…

  4. Major Occupational Groups 2. Service Jobs • Dominated by information and technology needs • Use highly sophisticated information storage and retrieval devices, from point-of-sale computers to optical scanners for inventory management & customer databases • Large and increasing sector of the market • Occupational Handbook • Possible Assignment: Create a job analysis detailing positives/negatives. Use p.9 for sample.

  5. Positive Features?? • Salary: monthly or annual salary • Benefits: company provided supplements such as vacation, sick pay, health insurance, etc. • Promotion: the ability to advance to positions of more responsibility and higher pay • Others: commuting distance, parking, work hours and flexibility, etc.

  6. Negative Features?? • Maybe look at these as CHALLENGES • Employee expenses: costs of working that are not reimbursed by employer • Parking and transportation • Gasoline or bus fare • Uniforms (maintaining and cleaning) • Work characteristics: daily activities of the job and work environment • Working indoors v. outdoors • Working alone v. working with a team • Level of stress • Time between breaks

  7. ENTREPRENEURSHIP • Entrepreneur: organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a new business • Possibilities: • Continue a family business • Purchase an existing business or franchise • Start a new business from scratch • Requires… • Large amount of planning • Work long hours • Large investment of money

  8. Coping with Change • Stay Informed • Be a Lifelong learner • Take classes • Complete a Self-Assessment • List strengths, weaknesses, and plan of action (Prepare Self-Assessment Inventory…put on wikispace.) • Networking: • “It’s not what you know, but who you know”. • Networks are informal groups of people with common interests who interact for mutual assistance.

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