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'where in the world'

'where in the world'. Future Career Intro to College Prep And Career Awareness. Career Goals and Steps to your Future. Objective: You will brainstorm and gather information to evaluate what steps you need to take to achieve your career goals. DRILL:

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'where in the world'

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  1. 'where in the world' Future Career Intro to College Prep And Career Awareness

  2. Career Goals and Steps to your Future Objective: You will brainstorm and gather information to evaluate what steps you need to take to achieve your career goals. DRILL: • Take a couple of minutes to close your eyes and imagine running your own ideal business or enterprise. What would it be? Be creative. Not necessarily profit-making in a conventional business sense - it can be a service of any sort; some people for example seek to be careers, or writers, or gardeners, or cooks, to have a shop or a cafe, or to teach others. It is important to emphasize that everyone - not just entrepreneurs - can follow their dreams. Visualizing and stating one's dreams helps greatly to make them happen. Think about and express personal dreams and passions relating to your ideal business or service activity or enterprise, which involves exploring their fulfilment of personal potential and strengths.

  3. 2.Write down your ideas: Provide as much detail as possible. What job will you do? How will it be successful? What do you like about it? Think big, then be realistic. 3. Close your eyes and think where in the world would you locate your business/service activity and why? 4. Describe the place in as much detail as you can.

  4. There are no right or wrong answers – The activity is an opportunity for people to think and imagine possibilities for themselves beyond the constraints that often limit us and our fulfilment. What other ideas do you have for your future?

  5. How can you achieve your goals? 1. What do you need to reach your goals? 2. What steps you need to take? Today? This month? This year? 3. What certifications or degrees do you need? • Who can help you? • How can you make it happen?

  6. Draw this Chart forLife after High School

  7. College or Work Field~ What career is best for me? Objective: You will analyze career paths in order to determine what you might choose. DRILL: • Look at the packet. • List options for life after High School in the chart provided. • List the pros and cons for each. • What do you want to do? Why?

  8. Draw this Chart forLife after High School

  9. Post-Secondary School What is it? • This includes university, college or career training in a non-trades field. Some examples of non-trades training include; Medical Office Assistant, Legal Assistant, Dental Assistant, Corrections Officer, and Office Assistant.

  10. Trade School What is it? • Trade school is where you go to learn a trade or craft. In trade school you study to become a ticketed journeyman in a trade such as; electrician, plumber, carpenter, master builder, mechanic, auto body technician, mason, drywaller, heating and refrigeration technician, etc. You enter in to a program where you learn the skills hands on, become an apprentice in a specified trade and eventually take a test - usually both written and practical - to become a full journeyman in that field.

  11. Public Service Work What is it? • Police officers, ambulance attendants, paramedics, firefighters, social workers, government employees and politicians are some examples of public service workers.

  12. Military Life What is it? • A career in the army, navy or air force. You can join the military at any time after you turn 18. You can join the military right out of high school or you can choose to join after college or university. ROTC (Registered Officer Training Program) is a tuition program in which the military will pay your way through college or university and in return you engage in limited military service while in school and full time service after graduation for a predetermined period of time.

  13. Straight to Work What is it? • You get a job right out of high school or you continue doing a job you had while in school, maybe moving to a full time position instead of a part time one.

  14. College or Work Field~ What career is best for me? Objective: You will analyze career paths in order to determine what you might choose. DRILL: • Look at the packet. • List options for life after High School in the chart provided. • List the pros and cons for each. • What do you want to do? Why? • Share answers.

  15. “Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future.” – Steve Miller “Work to become, not to acquire.” -Elbert Hubbard “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. ”- Buddha “Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. ” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  16. “Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day... ” • Orison SwettMarden

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