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Chapter 2 Getting to know Yourself

Chapter 2 Getting to know Yourself. Section 2.1 ~ Decision Making Section 2.2 ~ Setting Lifestyle Goals Section 2.3 ~ Are Your Goals Realistic?. Chapter 2 Getting to know Yourself. Section 2.1 Decision Making. Objectives:. The Seven Steps of the decision-making process

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Chapter 2 Getting to know Yourself

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  1. Chapter 2Getting to know Yourself • Section 2.1 ~ Decision Making • Section 2.2 ~ Setting Lifestyle Goals • Section 2.3 ~ Are Your Goals Realistic?

  2. Chapter 2Getting to know Yourself Section 2.1 Decision Making

  3. Objectives: • The Seven Steps of the decision-making process • How to use the decision-making process to choose a career that is suitable for your interests

  4. The Seven – Step Process • A decision making process is a logical series of steps used to identify and evaluate possibilities and arrive at a better choice. • The more information you have, the better you can make an informed decision. • The seven-step process is helpful to use when you have an important decision to make, not necessarily deciding what your going to do over the weekend!

  5. 7 Steps for Career Decision Making • Step 1 – Define your needs • Consider your hopes and dreams for the future • Where do you want to live? • Do you want a job that allows you to travel? • Do you want to get married and have kids? Step 2 – Analyze your personal resources This is who you are and what you have to offer; your resources include: values, interests, aptitudes and abilities, personality traits and your style of learning

  6. 7 Steps for Career Decision Making • Step 3 – Identify your career choices • Select possible careers that match your personal goals and resources • Pay Attention to “What’s out there.” Step 4 – Research your career choices Find out everything you can about the careers you selected in step 3. The following are helpful tools Occupational Outlook Handbook, Career Surveys, Talking with people in the field

  7. 7 Steps for Career Decision Making • Step 5 – Evaluate Your Career Choices • Based on the research you did in step 4, see if your career choices match your personal goals and resources • Step 6 – Make Your Decision! • Once you make your decision you need a plan, even if you change your career goals later on • If you discover (by research) that your career goal isn’t realistic or you don’t like it, use the dm process again to arrive at a new goal

  8. 7 Steps for Career Decision Making • Step 7 – Plan How to Reach your Goal • Now that you have made your decision, begin planning on how to reach your goal.

  9. 7 Steps for Career Decision Making • 1. Define your needs • 2. Analyze your personal resources • 3. Identify your career choices • 4. Research your career choices • 5. Evaluate your career choices • 6. Make your decision • 7. Plan how to reach your goals

  10. Section 2.2 ~ Setting Lifestyle Goals • Objectives: • How to determine your goals and values • Why your values and goals play an important role in making career decisions • Whether you prefer to work with people, data or things

  11. Section 2.2 ~ Setting Lifestyle Goals • Your lifestyle goals are the way you want to spend your time, energy, and resources in the future • What kind of life do you want to lead? • What do you want to accomplish in life? • Do you want a family? • Do you want a house, apartment, condo? City or suburbs? • How do you want to spend your free time? • Do you want a large income, or just enough to be comfortable?

  12. What Are Your Values? • Your values are the principles you live by and the beliefs that are important to you. • Your values may also include concrete things like money and expensive clothing • Choosing a career that matches your values can help ensure that you enjoy your work.

  13. Six General Values • Your values may change as you go through life, however, you will probably keep a core set of basic values that you learned as a child. • 1. Responsibility – Being responsible means fulfilling obligations in a dependable and trustworthy way. • 2. Relationships – your family and friends are important to you if you value relationships.

  14. Six General Values • 3.Compassion – Is caring deeply about people and their well-being. • 4. Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair. 5. Achievement – Valuing achievement means wanting to succeed in whatever you do.

  15. Six General Values • 6. Recognition – You want other people to appreciate and respect your accomplishments. • Through salary, job promotions, approval and praise • Many people share the same values, however they may practice it in a different way

  16. What are your interests? • Your interests are the things you enjoy doing, you should pay attention to them when your considering a career.

  17. Data, People or Things? • Identifying your interests can help you recognize whether you would prefer to work with data, people, or things. • Data- includes information, facts, symbols, figures, or statistics • People – include people and animals • Things-Working with physical objects of any size, tools, machinery, equipment, cars, instruments, etc.

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