Transcript Looking Forward to the World of Work Text: Chapter 2

Looking Forward to
the World of Work
Text: Chapter 2
Who Are You?
Values, Interests, and
Abilities
By
David Agnew and Jim Wendell
Arkansas State University
Objectives:
 Define “New Career Terms”
 Describe
the difference between life
values and work values
 Identify your values
 Provide examples of how interests match
up with careers
 Compare and contrast aptitudes and skills
New Career Terms
Values -personal views or ideas that a person
feels are important
 Life Values - things that are important in your life
such as family values and social values
 Work Values - represent what is important I work
such as the money you earn, job security, and
your work environment
 Conflicts of Values - when you have one or more
values that you can’t satisfy at the same time
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New Career Terms (Cont.)
 Interest - something a person enjoys doing
or thinking about
 Interest Inventory - a questionnaire that
helps people determine what their interest
are
 Aptitude - ability or potential for learning
new skills
 Skill - ability to perform a certain activity
well
Listen to Your Values
 Learned many from your parents
 Developing all your life
 Have become a big part of what is right for
you
 Harmony or an internal calm occurs when
you are true to your values
 Values affect career choices by giving
signals about how happy or successful you
will be in particular careers
Values to Consider
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Money - You must decide if money is the leading aspect of
your life or would you take less money for more important
things ?
Independence - Would you like to work for yourself and
make your own business decisions ?
Security - Do you need the knowledge of having a secure
day-to-day job with a guaranteed salary ?
Education - Do you need to keep learning to be able to talk
to many people about various topics ? Does your career
choice involve years of formal educational training ?
Creativity - Would you bypass a steady income to become
an artist or to create something ?
Values to Consider (Cont.)
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Making Changes in Your Community - Would you like to be
publicly involved in community improvement ?
Regular Work Schedule - Would you work the same hours
with scheduled time off or is overtime pay more important
than free time ?
High Profile or Recognition - Do you want a career that
could make you famous or give you recognition ?
Personal Life Ahead of Job - Which is more important - a
career and money or spending time with your family ?
Being a Leader - Do you enjoy decision making or prefer
others to assume that responsibility ?
Conflict of Values
 Trying to make a decision where you
really want more than one thing, but
can only have one
 Be careful - it is important to be aware
of how other people’s values can
influence the decisions you make peer pressure or family pressure
Discovering Your Interests
 Just imagine how great it would be to get
paid for what doing what you like to do.
Some people have turned their hobby into
a career.
 What do you watch and read ?
 What are your hobbies and dreams ?
 What are your favorite classes in school ?
Matching Interest to Careers
 Selecting an interesting career can
begin with taking an inventory of your
interest areas.
 Matching your interest with job skills
and requirements will allow you to
investigate career possibilities. This
helps you to avoid selecting a boring
job.
Discovering Aptitudes
 Aptitude - potential to learn
 To discover your aptitude look at your
strong points about what you do best.
 Remember, you may not know all of
your aptitudes at the present time
because you may not have any
experience in that area yet.
Eleven Main Aptitudes
General - ability to learn, general intelligence,
understanding facts and reasoning
 Verbal - speaking and listening skills
 Numerical - ability to solve number problems
 Spatial - visualizing shapes and dimensions
mentally
 Form Perception - noticing details about objects
 Clerical - recognizing errors in written words and
numbers
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Main Aptitudes (Cont.)
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Finger Dexterity - using fingers accurately to work with
small objects
Manual Dexterity - using hands accurately in placing and
turning objects
Motor Coordination - ability to coordinate hand, finger,
and eye movements to assemble parts
Eye - Hand - Foot Coordination - ability to move the hands
and feet together to complete a task after visually
recognizing it - drive a car
Color Discrimination - ability to distinguish shades of
color and to match and select colors that go together
Discovering Skills
 Skill - ability to accomplish a task
 Skills are learned through experience of
doing
 You constantly learn new skills throughout
life
 Everyone has learned hundreds of skills
since birth
 Remember it is important to know your skill
level to be able to choose a suitable career
Aptitude and Skill Tips
 Most people find it easier to develop skills
in areas of their interest
 Don’t be afraid - you CAN learn skills that
you don’t already possess
 Everyone has different interests and
abilities
 Don’t stop working at a skill just because
you feel you have mastered it
Special Talent
 Many career - music, arts, sports - require a
great deal of natural talent. Natural talent
is a “superior” natural ability or skill. Many
times this natural talent is called a “GIFT”.
 Remember that talent alone is usually not
enough to be successful. Most talented and
successful people worked very hard and
devoted much time, training, and practice
to their careers.
In Summary
 The most important first step in choosing a
career is to learn more about yourself
 Self-appraisal is necessary to identify
themselves from several perspectives
 Values, personal standards, interest,
aptitudes, skills, and special talents are
discussed
 Confidence building skills in decision
making aids in career choices
The End