Transcript Choosing Your Career - Kentucky Department of Education

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Choosing Your Career
1.1 Jobs and Careers
1.2 Coping with Change and
Reinventing Yourself
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Jobs and Careers
GOALS
Discuss career and job trends, and
describe sources of job information.
Complete a job analysis, listing positive
and negative features of potential career
choices.
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Careers of the Future
Major occupational groups
Job titles and descriptions
Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)
Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
Monthly Labor Review
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OOH Job Description Categories
 Management
 Professional
 Service
 Sales
 Administrative
 Farming
 Construction
 Installation
 Production
 Transportation
 Armed Forces
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Job Analysis
A job analysis is an evaluation of the
positive and negative attributes of a given
type of work.
A job analysis can help you identify types
of work that would be a good fit for you.
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Job Analysis Form
Title and salary
Skills, education,
and experience
Positive features
Negative features
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Positive Features of Employment
 Salary is the amount of monthly or annual pay
that you will earn for your labor.
 Benefits are company-provided supplements
to salary, such as sick pay, vacation time,
profit-sharing plans, and health insurance.
 Opportunity for promotion is the ability to
advance to positions of greater responsibility
and higher pay.
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Negative Features of Employment
 Employee expenses include any costs of working
paid by the employee that are not reimbursed by the
employer.
 Examples include the costs of parking and transportation, such
as gasoline or bus fare.
 The cost of these expenses can make a job less attractive.
 Work characteristics are the daily activities of the job
and the environment in which they must be performed.
 Examples include working indoors versus outdoors, working
alone versus working on a team, and having a high or low
degree of stress.
 Some work characteristics can make a job less attractive to
some workers.
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Entrepreneurship
An entrepreneur is someone who
organizes, manages, and assumes the
ownership risks of a new business.
Opportunities for business ownership
Continue a family business
Purchase an existing business or franchise
Start a new business from scratch
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Advantages of Owning Your
Own Business
Make the decisions
Be your own boss
Feel in control of your own future
Keep the profits
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Disadvantages of Owning Your
Own Business
Large investment of planning and money
High risk of failure
Statistics show that most new small
businesses do not succeed.
Two most common reasons for failure:
Lack of financing
Lack of skills
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Lesson 1.2
Coping with Change and
Reinventing Yourself
Explain techniques for coping with
change and reinventing yourself.
Discuss the need for job networking for
long-term career success.
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Coping with Change
 Stay informed
 Be a lifelong learner—someone who actively seeks
new knowledge, skills, and experiences that will add to
professional and personal growth throughout life.
 Take classes
 Upgrading—advancing to a higher level of skill to increase
your usefulness to an employer.
 Retraining—learning new and different skills so that an
employee can retain the same level of employability.
 Advanced degrees—specialized, intensive programs (taken
after obtaining the first college degree) that prepare students
for higher-level work responsibilities with more challenges and
higher pay.
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Complete a Self-Assessment
Think about what you like doing, what
you do well, and what skills and
knowledge you want to enhance.
Self-assessment inventory lists your
strong and weak points along with plans
for improvement as you prepare for a
career.
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Self-Assessment Inventory
Strengths
Weaknesses
Plan of Action
Education
Experience
Aptitudes and Abilities
Appearance
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Placement Centers
 Many schools, colleges, and technical training
institutes have placement centers that offer
services related to careers and employment.
 Services offered
 Assisting with self-assessment inventories
 Advice and counseling to help you determine a
career direction
 Vocational, interest, and personal testing
 Notification of job openings and assistance with
applying and interviewing
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Changing Career Opportunities
 Long-term sustainability
 A world economy
 Networking
 Networks are informal groups of people with
common interests who interact for mutual
assistance.
 Networking includes making phone calls, sharing
lunch, and creating opportunities to share ideas with
your group of acquaintances.
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