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1 Your Internal Career Design Investigating Your Career Ann K. Jordan Lynne T. Whaley

2 Class Activity: Case Study Case Study on page 87

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4 CHAPTER 6 Your Internal Career Design Explain why you need to make a career decision now. Describe the decision-making process. Identify the benefits of making a good career decision. Examine possible career decisions. Choose your Internal Career Design. Create a plan to fulfill your career decision. Monitor the progress and success of the decision.

5 Understand That You Need to Decide Now In your classes and activities, you are mastering skill sets that give you flexibility in pursuing various careers. Now you can begin developing the specialized skills needed for a specific career. The secret to choosing a satisfying career is to make your choice based on your talents, passions, and personal goals.

6 The Decision-Making Process 1. Understand that you must make a decision. 2. Identify the benefits of making a good decision. 3. Consider all possible decisions. 4. Make a decision. 5. Create a plan to carry out your decision. 6. Monitor the success of your decision.

7 Identify the Benefits of a Good Career Decision You will have a sense of accomplishment You will live a more satisfied life. You will see a career as a way to earn money and as an important, positive part of your life. Continued on next slide

8 Identify the Benefits of a Good Career Decision Continued from previous slide Use your P*A*T*H to Success to find a fulfilling career: Passion is what you feel when something fascinates you. What made you happy as a child? What do you love to do now? Attitude is an emotion; for example, a positive attitude will make you feel as though you can accomplish anything. Talents are those abilities that allow you to do something well. Heart refers to what you feel is important about a career.

9 Career Portfolio: PATH Using WordArt insert words that describe your passions, attitude, talents and heart For the attitude and heart sections, use the words from the slides that follow the PATH slide

10 Charting the Course to the Right Career Path for: Susan Nelson Passions -Inside the P write all of your interests Attitudes - Inside the A write your Personality Traits Talents - Inside the T write your Skills/Strengths Heart - Inside the H write all your values

11 Charting the Course to the Right Career Path for: Your Name Passions -Inside the P write all of your interests Attitudes - Inside the A write your Personality Traits Talents - Inside the T write your Skills/Strengths Heart - Inside the H write all your values

12 Attitudes Confident Optimism/Hopeful Serious Humorous Cheerful Grateful Humble Punctual Openness Shy Authoritative Sincere Trusting Cynical Loving Quiet/Reserved Nurturing Considerate Organized Adventurous Friendly Conscientiousness Agreeable Argumentative Suspicious Outgoing Tolerant Intolerant Sarcastic Helpful Tenacious Generous Kind

13 Heart: Values Achievement Adventure Creativity Education Enjoyment Family Friendliness Happiness Health Helpfulness Honesty Humor Independence Leadership Logical Peace Playfulness Professionalism Recognition Respect Rest/Relaxation Security Service Simplicity Solitude Spirituality Spontaneity Structure Teamwork Wealth

14 Consider All Possible Career Decisions The starting point for your decision Self-understanding, a true knowledge about yourself Assessment results Career clusters Career cluster a group of careers in one broad area Many different types of careers are included within a cluster. Careers in a cluster have some common interest and skill requirements. Careers in a cluster vary in the amount of education and training needed, the work setting, and other factors.

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16 Make a Decision to Create Your Internal Career Design Decide which career cluster is the best match for you. Explore various careers within the cluster you chose. Select the career that best suits your unique qualities.

17 Career Portfolio: Career Clusters Part 1 Open from the Shortcut & Save to your Class Folder: Self- Assessment: Career Clusters (Excel) Answer the items honestly and when finished look at the results sheet Screen Shot your results (be sure to include all the scores) Paste your Screen Shot to this PowerPoint Go to my Webpage and Career Clusters section Read about your top cluster(s) Copy and Paste Screen Shots of information about your Career Cluster to this PowerPoint

18 Results from Excel Self-Assessment: Career Clusters

19 Screen Shots from Career Clusters Brochures

20 Career Portfolio: Career Clusters Part 2 Research your top ranked Career Clusters (long list on the left side) Go to Missouri Connections (link off Careers Class page) Click on Browse Click on Career Clusters (your top 3 clusters) Click on Occupations (under Related Information) Screen shot your related occupations and paste this PowerPoint It may take two screen shots to get the entire list of jobs

21 Missouri Connections: Careers Related to my top 3 Career Clusters

22 Missouri Connections: Careers Related to my top 3 Career Clusters

23 Missouri Connections: Careers Related to my top 3 Career Clusters

24 Career Portfolio: Career Clusters Part 3 Research your top ranked Career Paths (short list on the right side) Go to New York Career Zone on the web Click on one of your top ranked Career Path Screen Shot your related occupations and paste to this PowerPoint You may have 20 or more pages to look at, scan them and pick the two pages that have the jobs you like the best

25 New York Career Zone: Careers Related to my top Career Path

26 New York Career Zone: Careers Related to my top Career Path

27 The Next Step Research careers that interest you. Narrow your choice of careers within your career cluster. Find the future trends predicted for the career. Investigate earnings and possibilities for advancement. Look into the education and training needed for entry-level and higher-level positions. Start an inventory of your skill sets.

28 Career Portfolio: Career Clusters Part 4 Investigate careers from your lists Career Clusters and Career Paths Using either MO Connections or NYCareerZone, research: 4 jobs that sound interesting 1 job that sounds weird to you For each job, include the: Job Description Education/Training Salary Future Employment Outlook Pictures

29 Interesting Job Listed in my Career Clusters or Path (Description, Education/Training, Salary, Outlook & Picture)

30 Interesting Job Listed in my Career Clusters or Path (Description, Education/Training, Salary, Outlook & Picture)

31 Interesting Job Listed in my Career Clusters or Path (Description, Education/Training, Salary, Outlook & Picture)

32 Interesting Job Listed in my Career Clusters or Path (Description, Education/Training, Salary, Outlook & Picture)

33 Weird Job Listed in my Career Clusters or Path (Description, Education/Training, Salary, Outlook & Picture)

34 Career Portfolio: My Dream Project Students will brainstorm what information they need to know about their dream job Together the class will combine their lists and this will become the criteria needed for their Dream Job Research Project This slide will be posted to the shortcut folder for students to copy into their class folder on their server Students will research their Dream Job and design a PowerPoint slideshow to present to the class

35 Dream Job What do I need to know? What websites can I use to find out this information?

36 Career Portfolio: Life Goals Watch Video Clip from Lou Holtz Use SmartArt or a bulleted text box to create a list of life goals for yourself (be creative!)

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38 Monitor the Success of Your Decision The career you choose now is probably the first of eight to ten careers you will have during your lifetime. Your Career Portfolio Builder Check your progress

39 Your Career Portfolio Builder Your Career Portfolio Builder stores the evidence of your achievements. Use your Career Portfolio Builder whenever you need to explain your talents to others. Use your Career Portfolio Builder to help you plan your career.

40 Check Your Progress Monitor, or keep track of, the success of your decision. Does my career choice match my passions? Do I feel positive about my career choice? Are my goals part of my plan? Am I meeting my time lines? Does my career decision still match my P*A*T*H to Success? Develop career maturity, using the path you created to make an informed career decision. Experience career satisfaction, the pleasure that comes from working in a career that allows you to use your passions.

41 Career Portfolio: Saving your Folder You may bring in a jump drive and save your Career Portfolio

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43 Class Activity: How to Become a Millionaire Take the quiz, How to Become a Millionaire

44 How to Become a Millionaire # 1 # 2 # 3 # 4 # 5 # 6 # 7 # 8 # 9 # 10 True True True True True True True True True True False False False False False False False False False False

45 Do you know how to become a millionaire? How many did you get right?

46 Summary I can explain why I need to make a career decision now. I can describe the decision-making process. I can identify the benefits of making a good career decision. I can examine possible career decisions. I can choose my Internal Career Design. I can create a plan to carry out my career decision. I will monitor the success of my career decision.

47 Class Activity: Wild America Watch the DVD, Wild America Discuss the boy s PATH to Success

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