1. What does Success mean to you?
Journal Question
What does Success mean to you?

2. Vocabulary Aptitude Personality Self-knowledge Job Market Career Plan
Employment Outlook
Foundation Skills
SCANS
Interpersonal Skills
Perseverance
Experience
Opinion

3. Personal Skills & Qualities that Influence Career Choices & Success
Obj. 3.01

4. Skills & Aptitudes Abilities Aptitudes Skills Talents
Physical & Mental skills developed through learning, training & practice
Aptitudes
Natural physical & mental talents
Skills
the learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both.
Talents
A special aptitude

5. Aptitude Assessments
Matches your skills & interests with a career that would be right for you.
Different Assessments:
Career Assessment
Personality Assessment
Personality Mosaic Test

6. Personal Qualities & Characteristics
Interests & Hobbies
Done for leisure only
Relationship to career
Interest inventory
Preferences
Geographical Location
Desired standard of living
Personal & Family Goals

7. SCANS Skills Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
Identifies & describes skills needed for workplace
Made of:
Foundation skills
Competencies
Industry-related skills

8. SCANS Skills-Foundation
1. Basic Skills
Reading
Manual, graphs, schedules
Writing
Can communicate with & create written documents, letters, manuals
Math
Basic computations
Speaking
Organizes ideas & communicates orally
Listening
Receives, interprets, & responds to verbal messages & other cues

9. SCANS Skills-Foundation
2. Thinking Skills
Creative Thinking
Generates new ideas
Decision Making
Specifies goals & constraints generates alternatives, considers risks, & evaluates & chooses best alternative
Problem Solving
Recognizes problems & generates plan of action
Seeing Things in the Mind’s Eye
Organizes & processes symbols, pictures, graphs
Knowing How to Learn
Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire & apply new knowledge & skills
Reasoning
Discovers a rule or principle underlying the relationship between 2 or more objects & applies it when solving a problem

10. SCANS Skills-Foundation
3. Personal Qualities
Responsibility
High level of effort & perseveres towards goals
Self-Esteem
Believes in own self-worth & has positive view of self
Sociability
Shows understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy
Self-Management
Assesses self accurately, set personal goals, monitors progress, & exhibits self-control
Integrity/Honesty
Chooses ethical courses of action

11. SCANS Skills-Competencies
1. Resources – Identifies, organizes, plans & allocates resources
Time
Selects goal-relevant activities, ranks them, allocates time & prepares and follows schedules
Money
Uses/prepares budgets, makes forecasts, keep records, makes adjustments to meet objectives
Material & Facilities
Acquires, stores, allocates & uses materials or space efficiently
Human Resources
Assesses skills & distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance & provides feedback

12. SCANS Skills-Competencies
2. Interpersonal – Works well with others
Participates as a member of a team
Contributes to a group effort
Teaches others new skills
Serves clients/customers
Works to satisfy customers’ expectations
Exercises leadership
Communicates ideas to justify position, persuades/convinces others, responsibly challenges existing procedures & policies
Negotiates
Works towards agreements involving exchange of resources, resolves divergent interests
Works with diversity
Works wells with men & women from diverse backgrounds

13. SCANS Skills-Competencies
3. Information – Acquires & uses information
Acquires & evaluates information
Organizes & maintain information
Interprets & communicates information
Uses computers to process information

14. SCANS Skills-Competencies
4. Systems – Understands complex inter-relationships
Understands systems
Knows how social, organizational, & technological systems work & operates effectively with them
Monitors & corrects performance
Distinguishes trends, predicts impacts on system operations, diagnoses deviations in systems’ performance & corrects malfunctions
Improves or designs systems
Suggests modifications to existing systems & develops new or alternative systems to improve performance

15. SCANS Skills-Competencies
5. Technology – Works with a variety of technologies
Selects technology
Chooses procedures, tools, or equipment including computers & related technologies
Applies technology to task
Understands overall intent & proper procedures for setup & operation of equipment
Maintains & troubleshoots equipment
Prevents, identifies, or solves problems with equipment, including computers & other technologies

16. SCANS Skills-Industry-related Skills
Planning
Management
Finances
Technical & Production skills
Underlying Principles of Technology
Labor & Community Issues
Health & Safety
Environmental Issues