Transcript Chapter 2 Getting to know Yourself

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Section 2.1 ~ Decision Making
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Section 2.2 ~ Setting Lifestyle Goals
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Section 2.3 ~ Are Your Goals Realistic?
Section 2.1
Decision Making
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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Step 7 – Plan How to Reach your Goal
◦ Now that you have made your decision, begin
planning on how to reach your goal.
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Define your needs
Analyze your personal resources
Identify your career choices
Research your career choices
Evaluate your career choices
Make your decision
Plan how to reach your goals
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Your interests are the things you enjoy doing,
you should pay attention to them when your
considering a career.
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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.