Direct Your Future™ Module 6: Finding Your Personal Compass Points

Module 6 Objectives At the end of this module, you will be able to: Identify the career clusters of your highest interests and skills. Describe what your personal profiles of interests and skills mean. State occupations filled by others who have very similar results. State the names of pathways and/or clusters where both interests and skills are high. List occupations that you want to explore in depth. Direct Your Future 6-2

Module 6 Kuder Career Interests Assessment® (KCIA) Report Your areas of interest in the career pathways and clusters in rank order. List of four persons who answered the questions like you did and their occupations. Lists of possible occupations (by education level) and access to their descriptions. Sample education plans for clusters of your highest interest. Remove “16” from bullet 1. Done, BK, 6-25-12. Direct Your Future 6-3

Module 6 KCIA Report – Top Career Pathways 6-4 Direct Your Future Replace this one slide with two: a) the new 5 pathway report and b) the new 16-cluster report. Direct Your Future 6-4

KCIA Report – National Cluster Ranking Module 6 KCIA Report – National Cluster Ranking Direct Your Future 6-5

Module 6 KCIA Report – Person Matches 6-6 Direct Your Future Replace with the new Person Match report. Perhaps add a slide that shows one of the sketches. Direct Your Future 6-6

KCIA Report – Person Match Interview Module 6 KCIA Report – Person Match Interview Direct Your Future 6-7

Module 6 List of Occupations Your reports include an extensive list of occupations for the three clusters of your highest interest. The occupations are organized by the amount of education needed to enter them. Learn about the occupations suggested by reading descriptions and watching videos. Save occupations that appeal to you in your portfolio. Please note text change in first bullet. Done, BK, 6-25-12 Direct Your Future 6-8

Module 6 Direct Your Future 6-9

Module 6 Kuder Skills Confidence Assessment (KSCA) Report – Top Career Pathways Replace with two slides: a) the new 5 pathway report and b) the new 16-cluster report. Direct Your Future 6-10

KSCA Report – National Cluster Ranking Module 6 KSCA Report – National Cluster Ranking Direct Your Future 6-11

Module 6 Kuder Interests and Skills Composite Report – Top Career Clusters Direct Your Future 6-12

Module 6 Middle School Homework for Next Session Complete Activity 15a: Self-Assessment Summary Sheet (16 National clusters) OR Complete Activity 15b: Self-Assessment Summary Sheet (6 Holland clusters) AND Complete Activity 16: Your Dream Job, and bring it to the next class session. Change the first bullet to read: “List the five pathways and three clusters of your highest interests.” Change the second bullet to read: “List the five pathways and three clusters of your highest skills.” Change the third bullet to read: “Write down the titles of occupations that you want to explore.” Done, BK, 6-25-12 Direct Your Future 6-13

Module 6 High School Homework for Next Session Complete Activity 15a: Self-Assessment Summary Sheet (16 National clusters) OR Complete Activity 15b: Self-Assessment Summary Sheet (6 Holland clusters) AND Use Handout 4 to take Super’s Work Values Inventory- revised. Print your results and bring them to the next session. Change Activity title to 12b. In both cases, change from five clusters to three. Done, BK, 6-25 Direct Your Future 6-14