1. Olympic High School Class Presentation by Terry Hill
Career Planning

2. Questions for Students
How many hours have you invested in school between grades 1-12?
Why do you go to school?
Is it smart to select a HS extracurricular activity at random? A career?
What is the best career in the world?
When are you required to decide on your career?

3. Think About It
People Often Invest More Time Planning Their Vacation Than Planning Their Career.

4. Career Decision Determines
How you spend most of your "awake" hours for the next 40 years?
Your opportunities for personal satisfaction and growth?
Your ability to meet your family's needs (e.g. housing, medical, college)?
Your ability to eventually retire with the financial resources to enjoy it?

5. Career Planning Dilemma
The Stakes Have Never Been Higher
The Tools are Available
It’s all up to you!

6. Higher Stakes – It Is A Different World
Internet
Outsourcing
Global Marketplace
No Safety Net

7. Higher Stakes – It Is A Different World
Internet
Consumers have more information about product
pricing, quality, availability, etc. than ever before.
Increases consumer power to demand low cost/
high quality products, efficiency and speed.
Only those companies that meet these higher
consumer expectations will survive.
Companies require the best people and processes.
Increasingly competitive workplace.

8. Higher Stakes – It Is A Different World
Outsourcing
Companies no longer perform all functions.
Functions such as manufacturing, product
design, payroll, software development,
customer service, engineering, etc. are
being “outsourced” to other firms
(frequently in China, India, etc.)

9. Higher Stakes – It Is A Different World
Global Marketplace/Workplace
Fewer trade barriers.
More global/multi-national companies
Communication technology has made the
world much smaller.
You must compete in a “global workplace”.

10. Higher Stakes – It Is A Different World
No Safety Net
Defined pension plans are disappearing
Our youth may live to be 80 – 95 yrs. old
Social security is on shaky ground
Our young people will be responsible for
their own retirement.

11. Questions for Students
Do you want what is best for you in your life?
Is there any decision that has a bigger impact on your life (e.g. personal fulfillment/growth, happiness, financial well-being) than your choice of your career?
Is there any other activity in which such a small investment of your time can have such an enormous positive impact on their lives?

12. Result: Poor Choices, Waste and Frustration
“I just graduated from college and don’t have a clue of what I want to do. Maybe forensics. Maybe art.”
“My daughter is a sophomore in college and she hates her major (accounting). She is changing majors, but doesn’t know what to choose. That means at least one more year of college that we cannot afford.
“Now that I have a college degree, I need to think about a career. I majored in Marketing, but I’m not sure that’s what I want to do.”
“I hate my major, but switching involves two more years of college. My parents would kill me. I’ll gut it out. Maybe I’ll learn to like it.”
“I wish I had known four years ago what I know now. I would have taken career and college planning more seriously. My major was easy and fun, but now I cannot get a decent job.”

13. Hours Invested

14. Lifetime Value of Education

15. Earnings and Unemployment Rate by Education

16. How Much Income Do I Need?

17. “Typical” Resources Used to Pick a Career
TV => There is a big difference between TV drama and “real life”. 
Friends => They’ll know what sounds “cool”, but unless they have proactively used the career /college tools available, they are probably not a knowledgeable source of information.
Life’s Interactions => OK, you have used the services of Dentists, Pharmacists, Teachers, etc. but… Do you really know what it is like to do their job?
Parent => A great source, if your parent’s career happens to be “the right one” out of several hundred possibilities for you

18. Life After High School What do you want to be when you grow up?
It is never too early to start thinking about the future!
What you are doing in school now will have an impact in what you do in the future.

19. Who Are You?

20. Where Are You Going? What are my goals?
What kind of jobs are available?
What are the different jobs that match my skills?

21. Take Action! Set goals for yourself
Write down all the kinds of jobs that you can do
Find out more about the jobs that you can do
Find out what college degree or courses you can take to develop skills for these jobs
What are other things you can do?

22. Action Steps

23. Where and How do I start?
Let’s Go!

24. Right Questions to Ask What will make me happy?
What am I passionate about?
What do I dream of doing?
What do I really want to do?
Let’s start with finding out who you are.

25. Learn About Yourself “Free” on-line resources
How to know your interest:
The RAISEC Test for career interest
Briggs Myers’ 16 personality types
Work Values Test
Skills for School and Workplace Test
World of Work Test

26. Learn About Yourself The RIASEC Test What is your interest?
RIASEC is a commonly used test to determine career interests.

27. Learn About Yourself Realistic Mechanical Careers Investigative
Technical/Science Careers
Artistic
Creative/Artistic Careers
Social
Social Service/People Oriented Careers
Enterprising
Business and Sales-Oriented Careers
Conventional
Office-based or Financial Oriented Careers

28. Learn About Yourself

29. Learn About Yourself Personality Type Test
Briggs Myers’ 16 personality types
Other personality tests available on-line also.
Overview:
Help students identify their personality type based on their self development and interactions with others
Objectives:
Determine personality type
Explore career types

30. Learn About Yourself
Work Values Test
Overview: Help students identify their personality traits and ideals that are important to them
Objectives:
Determine students’ personal traits and values
Give examples of how these traits affect their personal life

31. Learn About Yourself Skills for School and Workplace Test Overview:
Help students understand the importance of skills in school and at work
Objectives: Students will be able to:
Rate their skill mastery
Describe the relevance of the skill to school
Describe the relevance of the skill to work
Develop a plan to improve skills

32. Learn About Yourself Skills you Need What Skills do You Have?
Communication Skills
Problem Solving
Responsibility
Eagerness to Learn
Creative Thinking
People Skills (or Social skills)
Personal Skills
Self-management
Technical Skills
What Skills do You Have?

33. Learn About Yourself How to Develop These Skills School
Social Activities
Hobbies
Volunteer Work
House Chores
Community Work
Job

34. Learn About Yourself
World of Work Test
Overview: Test students’ knowledge on the world of work
Objectives: Students will be able to:
Understand the importance of career planning
Understand the importance of continuous learning and upgrading skills
Understand vocabulary used in career planning

35. Learn About Yourself The World of Work
It’s important to understand what the workplace is like.
Each workplace is different
If you know more, you can make better choices for your future!

36. Learn About Yourself

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39. Learn About Yourself

40. Learn About Careers

41. Learn About Careers

42. Learn About Careers

43. Learn About Careers

44. Make A Plan

45. Make A Plan

46. Make A Plan

47. Make A Plan

48. It’s Up To You
Are you willing to invest the time and energy to review/use the tools to make an informed decision about your future career?
Your Future Depends On It

49. Find a Career that you Love and you will never work a day in your life
Find a Career that you Love and you will never work a day in your life! Any Questions????

50. Thank You!
and Good Luck