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Transition Career Exploration Workshop

Learn how to explore your interests and connect them to your future career options. Take the interest survey on California Career Zone to discover your activity interests and access a list of related jobs. Utilize the Holland type jobs and Profile Report to further understand your personality characteristics and career recommendations. This workshop will help you gain valuable insights into your interests and preferences to make informed career choices.

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Transition Career Exploration Workshop

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  1. Transition Career Exploration Workshop Interests

  2. What Do I Like To Do? • A critical element in choosing an occupation or job is whether you think you will “LIKE” that job. • So - you need to find out. 2 2 2 2

  3. Would I Like That Job? • How do I find out? • What is the connection between my interests and my future jobs? • What is the connection between my interests and my personal characteristics? 3 3 3 3

  4. Interest Survey • The California Career Zone is a survey of your activity interests. • On the website you can: • Determine your three major types of activity interest areas. • Use those three areas to print a list of jobs related to your interests. • Explore jobs of interest to get more information about those jobs. 4 4 4 4

  5. California Career Zone • These are the responses you will need to make - L = like ? = don’t know D = dislike • Try not to think about: • Whether you have enough education or training or experience to perform the activity or • How much money you would make performing that activity • You are making choices based only on “is itsomething I think I would like to do or not to do?” or based on facts about yourself and the occupation? 5 5 5 5

  6. California Career Zone • Click on www.cacareerzone.org. • Click on “Create an account” to save your results and allow you to use the site again. • This will take you to “Portfolio Login.” 6 6 6 6

  7. California Career Zone From Interests to Jobs! • Follow the directions to get to a list of your related jobs. • You can now click on any of the listed jobs and look at the characteristics of that job. • Print copies of any job of interest. • Click on “Log Out” when you are finished. • Keep a copy of your User Name & Password to re-enter the website at any time. 7 7 7 7

  8. Holland Type Jobs • Review your list of jobs suggested by your Holland type from the Career Zone Survey. • Circle or highlight those jobs on which you wish to follow-up. Record the jobs of interest in your ParticipantWorkbook on the “O” page under the “California Career Zone” section. 8 8 8 8

  9. Six Holland Codes • Dr. John Holland, a psychologist and teacher, proposed that: • each of us is a mix of two or more of 6 personality types; and • we tend to choose work environments and jobs based on the similarity of those jobs to our personality characteristics. • You completed the California Career Zone interest profiler and have your Holland Codes. 9 9 9 9

  10. Six Holland Types Realistic Investigative Conventional Artistic Enterprising Social 10 10 10 10 10

  11. Six Holland Types“The Common Names” Doers Thinkers Organizers Creators Persuaders Helpers 11 11 11 11

  12. Profile Report Self-Selected Choices • On the WOWi Profile Report , page 1, in the Summary section, do your “Self-Selected Choices” of Occupational Areas seem to cover your areas of interest? • Do your selected “Best Liked Subjects” seem to cover your preferred school subjects? In the Participant Workbook, under “WOWi Occupational Areas,” record your Self-Selected Occupational Interests. 12 12 12 12

  13. Profile ReportCareer Interest Activities • WOWi Summary - page 1 (lower right hand corner) • High-Measured Career Interest Activities Does the list suggest areas of career interest that “fit” what you know about yourself? Record results in your Participant Workbook under the “WOWi Career Interest Activities.” 13 13 13 13

  14. Interpretive Report -Career Recommendations • On page 5, find the Career Recommendations. • These occupational (job) recommendations are based on your scores in all the sections you completed. • List the Career Recommendations you are: • interested in, • neutral about, or • not interested in. 14

  15. CAREER RECOMMENDATIONSInterpretive Report • Combines the results of: • your career interests (what you like to do), • aptitudes (what you do well), and • values (what’s important to you in the work environment). • Does the list of Career Recommendations suggest some occupations that you would be interested in exploring? 15 15 15 15

  16. What Type of Person Am I? • Another Personality Inventory – documenting the characteristics that make you different from other people is: The Kingdomality Exercise www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdomality.html Participant Workbook: Record appropriate Title or characteristics from the Kingdomality exercise on the “S” page under the “Personality” section. 16 16 16 16

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