Section 2.1 ~ Decision Making

Section 2.2 ~ Setting Lifestyle Goals

Section 2.3 ~ Are Your Goals Realistic?

Chapter 2Getting to know Yourself

Chapter 2Getting to know Yourself

Section 2.1 Decision Making

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

Objectives:

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!

The Seven – Step Process

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

7 Steps for Career Decision Making

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 choicesFind 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

7 Steps for Career Decision Making

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

7 Steps for Career Decision Making

Step 7 – Plan How to Reach your Goal

◦ Now that you have made your decision, begin planning on how to reach your goal.

7 Steps for Career Decision Making

1. Define your needs 2. Analyze your personal resources 3. Identify your career choices 4. Research your career choices 5. Evaluate your career choices 6. Make your decision 7. Plan how to reach your goals

7 Steps for Career Decision Making

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

Section 2.2 ~ Setting Lifestyle Goals

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?

Section 2.2 ~ Setting Lifestyle Goals

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.

What Are Your Values?

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.

Six General Values

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.

Six General Values

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

Six General Values

Your interests are the things you enjoy doing, you should pay attention to them when your considering a career.

What are your interests?

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.

Data, People or Things?