1. 6.01 Understand skills required for seeking employment.
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6.01 Understand skills required for seeking employment.

2. Discovering Interests, Skills, Abilities, and Aptitudes is the 1st step in job searching
Abilities- a skill you have already developed.
Aptitude- the potential a person has for learning a skill.
Interests- activities one likes to do.
Skills- the ability to perform a task due to training or experience.

3. Interests can lead to a career choice
 Most Interests fall into 3 categories:
    1. People- interests include activities involving people.
  2. Information- interests include using ideas, facts, figures, and words.
   3. Technology- interests involve working with things, such as tools, machines, and other equipment.

4. Quiz yourself—
Interest Inventory- designed to help you relate your interests to occupational areas.
Ability Assessment- measure how well you perform specific tasks and whether you can master certain skills.
Aptitude tests- you can learn what careers you would be good at- aptitudes can be developed into skills.

5. What skills are employers looking for?
    Basic Skills- Reads, writes, performs arithmetic and mathematical operations, listens, and speaks.
Thinking skills- Thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn, and analyzes.
Social Skills- skills people use to interact with others. These skills are one of the top qualities employers look for in a job candidate.

6. Personal Qualities Displays responsibility
                Self-esteem and self confidence
                          Self-management
                         Integrity and Honesty
                                Cooperation
                         Follows directions
                  Initiative and self-motivation

7. Resources for choosing a career and seeking employment
Research
Networking
Work-based Learning

8. Research
Classifieds
Internet
Employment Agencies

9. Networking
Job leads
Referral
Career fair
Contact list

10. Work-based Learning
Apprenticeship-A position that involves hands-on learning while working under the guidance of a skilled worker in a registered program.
Job Shadowing-The act of following a person on the job for a few days in order to learn about a particular career.
Internship-A temporary paid or unpaid position that involves direct work experience in a career field.
Cooperative education (Co-op)-Combines school studies with paid work experience.

11. Types of Career Choices
Job- Work that a person does for pay.
Career- a work history of one or more jobs in the same or related fields of interest.
Trade- a particular skilled profession.

12. Factors involved in choosing a career
Salary and Earnings
Benefits
Job Outlook
Advancement
Opportunities
   Qualifications, training, education, and experience
  Work permit