making your career choice unit one - careers. why do people work? to pay for their wants and needs...
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Making Your Career Choice
Unit one - Careers
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Why do people work?
To pay for their wants and needs
To be around others
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Why people work
To make a contribution to society
For self-fulfillment/enjoyment
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Your career choice impacts the following how???????
Lifelong earning potential –The more education that you have typically the more money that you will earn in your lifetime
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More education = increased $$
Education Pays… But with more than just cash!The numbers speak for themselves. Just take a look:
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Your career choice impacts the following:
Career opportunities – You need to choose a career that has a lot of job opportunities
Choose a career where the job outlook is good and jobs in this field are growing
Fastest-Growing Occupations - Occupation Information - America's Career InfoNet
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Career choice impacts?
Job satisfaction – you need to choose a career that you will be happy doing everyday
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Informal Research (To help you find your perfect career)
Job informational interview – Interview people in jobs that you are interested in
TV Shows– such as CSI, Law and Order, ER may be your interests
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Informal research
Magazines – see people in jobs in Home and Garden, cooking, sports magazines, etc.
Video games – Playing games in fields of interests (war – military/police)
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Formal Research
Libraries – reference books, CD’s, DVD, and other media sources
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Formal career research
Occupational Outlook Handbook – describes the work, training and education required and future outlook for the chosen career
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition
Guide for Occupational Exploration – groups careers in to categories such as careers in food and gives occupations in this category
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Formal Research
Business Week, Occupational Outlook Quarterly – these are magazines with updates in fields such as business and up and coming occupations
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Learning from Experience
Temporary work – short-term employment to see if you like the job
Cooperative program – you work while in high school your senior year and get credit for it
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Learning from Experience (continued)
Internship – short-term job or work project that required formal commitment (don’t get paid for work)
Service Learning – combine academic work with community service such as PSI, Health Explorers, etc.
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Mentors
You can be a mentor for:Freshman Focus – develop lesson plans
and lead lessons on Fridays for lessons.
Peer Tutoring – help students in Mrs. White’s class
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Ways to develop your career goals
Career interest inventory – assessment to help you determine your career interests
Learning styles – assessment to determine the best way that you learn (by listening, seeing, touching, etc.)
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Ways to develop career goals
Career aptitude assessment – helps you learn things that you are naturally good at (math, writing, science, etc.)
Job shadowing – spending time observing someone in a job that you are interested in.
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Other ways to develop career goalsAcademic experiences/grades – Determine your
career based on classes that you like and make good grades in
Extra curricular activities – base career goals on what you enjoy doing outside of school and work
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Jobs vary HOW at the local level?
Local – opportunities are based on what businesses/industries are available in area (basic jobs are easy to find – banker, doctor, nurse, teacher, retail worker, etc.)
Smaller cities sometimes smaller pay but lower cost of living
Jobs Limited to what is available
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How do jobs vary at state level?
State – typically more opportunities based on location of job in state, environment may be different
Example: Horse trainer at Keeneland, Jockey, etc.
College Basketball coach Larger cities – higher pay but also higher
cost of living, less land per person
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National Level
Many more opportunities, but still may vary based on location, also cost of living more in parts of countryZoologist (live where a zoo is located)Marine biologist (live near ocean or lake)Astronaut (live in Texas or Florida where
space centers are located. A basic house in California is $600,000+
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Career Clusters
Grouping careers into clusters based on how they are related
Business & Management Careers: Accounting, Finance, Management, Banker
Marketing, Sales and Service: Marketing Director, Salesperson, Buyer
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What is the difference???
Job – is the work that you do for payOccupation – the type of work that you
do – I am a teacherCareer – series of related jobs or
occupations (I am in the education career field as a teacher – I could also become a guidance counselor, principal, assistant principal, etc.)
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Employment Trends
Dual-family income (both husband and wife work)
Telecommuting – where people work out of their homes by use of fax, Internet, cell phones, etc.
Employees will be constantly learning new things throughout the years in their jobs (lifelong learning)
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Technology tools
Satellites – make homes more efficient by ability to get signals for TV, phone, etc.
Work more efficient – by ability to get information for faxes, phones, computers, etc. to help make work more productive
Schools – able to have Internet service, TV service, off-site classroom capability etc. for learning ability.
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More Technology Trends
Automated phone systems – where companies don’t have to have as many employees to answer phone makes jobs and schools more productive
On-line classes – Can take classes without physically going to the college (computer) also allows you to be able to save gas and time (productivity)
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Technology (cont)
Computer aided drafting (CAD) – makes work more productive because computer does a lot of technical work for you also aides learning process in school
Spreadsheets – Makes home more productive because you can use them to keep track of financial records School – utilize it for graphs, charts, research Business – helps make information easier to
analyze when it is in charts/graphs
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Technology Trends/Scientific Advancements
On-line banking – People can do banking from home, work, or school which saves time and gas plus can do it 24 hours.
Telecommuting – people work from home or other location beside company offices (fax, Internet, cell phones, computers)
Outsourcing – hiring other companies to produce goods and services (cell phones, fax, Internet, etc.)
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Other Technology
Data bases – computers have space to store information which saves time, paper, etc. for schools, homes, and work
Internet – schools, homes, and work have access to tons of information to help with research and other information needed
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Skills for Global Economy
Basic skills – communication, reading, writing, math
Thinking skills – creative thinker, critical thinker, decision-making
Personal Qualities – Social and civic responsibilities, self direction, self-management, self esteem, adaptability, integrity
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Workplace trends
Teams – more employers expect workers to be able to work together
Diversity – have to be able to work with people of different cultures, backgrounds
Lifelong learning – need to be willing to learn continuously (changing world)
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Career portfolio/ILP
Business letters, application letter, recommendations, follow-up letters
Assessment data – aptitude, interest, ability tests
Resume Certificates, awards (honors) Samples of work (projects, papers) Records of work experience (good
evaluations) Transcripts (grades from high school
semesters)