Transcript Making Your Career Decision

1. The Occupational Outlook
Handbook gives you:
a. The outlook for the career
b. The salary for the career
c. The training/education for the
career
d. All of the above
3. A program at the high school where
you work in a career related field and get
credit is called a
A. Internship
B. Service learning
C. Cooperative program
D. Temporary work
4. You can receive experience and
service credit through programs such as
Health Explorers and PSI which are
known as
A. Temporary work
B. Cooperative program
C. Service learning
D. Internship
5. With this type of program you can work
and get experience learning about a career
but you usually do not get paid for it.
A. Temporary work
B. Cooperative program
C. Internship
D. Service Learning
6. All of the following are the main
reasons why people work except:
To make money to pay for
wants and needs
B. For self-fulfillment
C. To be around others
D. To be able to travel and have
fun
 A.
7. Spending ½ day with a registered
nurse to see what job duties that they
have is an example of:
 A. an internship
 B. service learning
 C. job shadowing
 D. Cooperative learning
8. Paul scores high in math every time that
he takes the ACT test so he decides to be a
math teacher. This is an example of a
________________assessment.
 A. Career aptitude
 B. Learning styles
 C. Career interest
 D. Career academic
9. A person who likes kids, is a good
communicator, and wants to have time with
their family should consider the
___________career cluster.
 A. Arts, A/V Technology and
Communications
 B. Education and training
 C. Law, Public Safety and Security
 D. Hospitality and Tourism
10. All of the following are the main
things that should be considered when
choosing a career except:
 A. The job outlook
 B. Your lifelong earning potential
 C. What your friends want you to do
 D. Your job satisfaction
Self-Assessment
Your values
Your lifestyle goals
Your interests
Your skills and
aptitudes
Your personality
Values – Things that are important
to you
Money
Fame/Power
Family
Religion
Career
Time
Lifestyle – The way that you want
to live
 Where you live (country, city, etc.)
 Type of house you live in
 Schools your children attend
 How you spend your time (eating out all
the time, movies, shopping)
 Your mode of transportation
Goal Setting
 Set your short-range goals (1 day to 6 months)
Make all A’s this year, join 2 clubs, get involved in
the community
 Set your medium-range goals second (6 months
to 3 years)
 Make all A’s through my next 3 years of high
school
 Set your long-range goals first (3-10 years)
 Be a teacher, accountant, etc., Get bachelors
degree, go to graduate school
What interests you – things you
like to do in your free time?
Things you like to do:
Leisure activities
School activities
Sport activities
Social activities
Career interests
inventory - ILP
Skills and aptitudes
 Skills – Having a talent to do
certain things (typically with
hands)
 Drawing
 Building
 Music
Aptitude – knack or potential
for learning a certain skill
 Math ability
 Selling ability
 Speak Spanish
Personality
 What words fit your personality?
 Friendly/Outgoing
 Quiet/Shy
 Caring/Considerate
 Helpful
 Carefree
 Demanding
Your Work Environment
 Where would you like to
work?
 Work indoors or outdoors?
 Quiet environment with few
people?
 Environment with lots of
people?
Your relationship preferences
To work with:
People?
Data?
Things?
Having time off to go to church
and spend time with your family is
an example of a
A. goal
B. lifestyle
C. value
D. all of these
The ability to draw or build
things is an example of a
A. Skill
B. goal
C. lifestyle
D. Aptitude
Making good grades for the next 6
weeks is an example of a ____goal.
A. Short-term
B. Mid-term
C. long-term
D. intermediate
Tom wants to have a large 6 bedroom house,
drive a mercedes and have a houseboat. These
are elements of Tom’s _____________
 A. Values
 B. Goals
 C. Lifestyle
 D. Interests
JoAnn makes really good grades in
math and science and it comes
really easy to her. This is a(n)
 A. Values
 B. Aptitude
 C. Lifestyle
 D. Interests
Tim would like to be a pharmacist
within the next 9 years. This would
be an example of a ________goal.
A. Short-term
B. Mid-term
C. long-term
D. intermediate
Sources of Career Information
 Dictionary of
Occupational Titles
 Describes
approximately 20,000
jobs
 Classified by career
clusters and worker
functions
Sources of Career Information(cont.)
 Occupational Outlook Handbook
 Education and Training requirements
 Usual hours of work
 Working conditions
 Salaries
 Job or career outlook
 Sources of additional information
Sources of career information (cont.)
 Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE)
 Organizes the world of work into 12
interest areas and then into work groups
and subgroups
- Kind of work done
- Skills and abilities needed
- Interests and aptitudes
- Required background and preparation
Other sources of Career information
 Career consultation – An informational interview with
someone who works in a career that interests you.
 On-the-job experience – Have a job in the area that
you are interested in.
 Job shadowing – Spend time with a person in the
career field that you are interested in.