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Lesson 5.1 Start the Plan Now
Lesson 5.2 Career Decisions
Lesson 5.3 Creating Your Internal Career Design 5
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Planning Your Internal Career Design
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2. Lesson 5.1 Start the Plan Now
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Lesson 5.1 Start the Plan Now
Goals
Explain why you need to make a career decision now.
Describe the career decision-making process.
Identify the benefits of making a good career decision.
Term
decision-making process

3. Deciding Now Take charge Plan for your career
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Deciding Now
Take charge
Plan for your career
Decide the direction your career will take

4. The Decision-Making Process
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The Decision-Making Process
1. Recognize that you must make a decision.
2. Identify the benefits of making a good decision.
3. Consider all possible choices.
4. Make a decision.
5. Create a plan to carry out your decision.
6. Monitor the success of your decision.

5. Benefits of a Good Career Design
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Benefits of a Good Career Design
Enjoying your career will
Give you a sense of success
Help you live a more satisfied life
Seeing your career as
More than a way to make money
An important, positive part of your life
Using P*A*T*H to Success in discovering your ideal career
Passion
Attitude
Talents
Heart

6. 5.1 Start the Plan Now SUMMARY
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5.1 Start the Plan Now SUMMARY
Making a career decision now allows a person to choose courses, add skill sets, and increase specialized skills.
The decision-making process has six steps:
Recognize that one must make a decision.
Identify the benefits of making a good decision.
Consider all possible decisions.
Make a decision.
Create a plan to carry out the decision.
Monitor the success of the decision.
A fulfilling career will result if a person’s P*A*T*H to Success is the basis for his or her career.

7. Lesson 5.2 Career Decisions
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Lesson 5.2 Career Decisions
Goals
Explain why self-understanding must happen before you choose your career.
Analyze the career clusters to compare them with your P*A*T*H to Success.
Term
self-understanding

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The Starting Point
Self-understanding
Assessment results

9. Career Clusters Look at all of the career clusters before you choose.
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Career Clusters
Look at all of the career clusters before you choose.
Review all of each individual cluster’s characteristics before accepting or rejecting it.
Compare the cluster’s traits to your own.

10. Career Clusters to Consider
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Career Clusters to Consider
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Architecture and Construction
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications
Business Management and Administration
Education and Training
Finance
Government and Public Administration
Health Science

11. Career Clusters to Consider
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Career Clusters to Consider
(continued)
Hospitality and Tourism
Human Services
Information Technology
Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security
Manufacturing
Marketing
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Transportation, Distribution and Logistics

12. 5.2 Career Decisions SUMMARY
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5.2 Career Decisions SUMMARY
Self-understanding is necessary before one can make an informed career choice.
The 16 career clusters are groups of careers that have common interest and skill requirements. Studying the clusters for career possibilities will give one the understanding to make an educated career choice.

13. Lesson 5.3 Creating Your Internal Career Design
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Lesson 5.3 Creating Your Internal Career Design
Goals
Explain how to make your career decision.
Construct a plan to carry out your career decision.
Set goals to meet your career plan.
Monitor the progress and success of the decision.
Terms
career satisfaction
monitor
career maturity

14. Make the Decision Explore various careers within a cluster.
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Make the Decision
Explore various careers within a cluster.
Select the career or careers that best match your unique qualities.

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Create the Plan
Investigate the education and training needed for entry-level and higher-level positions.
Research the workforce and workplace trends influencing your career to get a view of the future.
Investigate the employment outlook, earnings, and possibilities for advancement in your career area.
Make an inventory of your skill sets.
Begin a list of your specialized skills.

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Evaluate the Decision
Make sure that all aspects of the career meet your expectations.
Use the checklist.

17. Set Goals Graduation requirements Electives in your career area
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Set Goals
Graduation requirements
Electives in your career area
Activities to help you develop skills that support your career goal

18. Monitor Success Your Career Portfolio Check Progress
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Monitor Success
Your Career Portfolio
Records or copies of accomplishments
Newspaper articles, programs, and brochures about your activities
Photos of projects and achievements
Letters about your activities and achievements
Copies of anything showing your specialized skills
Samples of your work saved electronically
Check Progress
Review your progress from time to time
Make adjustments

19. 5.3 Creating Your Internal Career Design SUMMARY
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5.3 Creating Your Internal Career Design SUMMARY
Using the characteristics of each career cluster will help a person create a career plan that best matches one’s P*A*T*H to Success.
Evaluating possible careers in a chosen career cluster will help narrow the choices.
Setting goals will help create plans for education and training and additional skill sets and specialized skills.
To help with planning, a person should organize the contents of the Career Portfolio, which contains evidence of achievements. Reviewing the success of the decision periodically will help monitor the success of the career plan.