1. Student Support Services
Career Exploration
Student Support Services

2. Role of the Advisor
Access readiness of individuals for career planning and determine appropriate service delivery modes and interventions.
Expand, focus, or transfer interest, abilities and/or experience to identify a realistic list of employment alternatives.
Evaluate the data collected about occupations and training opportunities.

3. Orientation Career Development Process Values Interest Skills
Lets Do It!!!!! What’s Next?

4. Career Development Process
Knowing yourself!
Knowing your options
- Careers and majors
- Employers and industries
Research options
Planning
- Resume/cover letter
- Employment search/applications
- Interviews

5. Knowing Yourself
Understanding yourself helps you to make good career decisions.
You know yourself better than others
More beneficial to start here than jumping in and trying various careers

6. Important
Knowing “YOU” involves:
- Values
- Interest
- Skills

7. Key points when thinking of employment?
Values
Key points when thinking of employment?
Examples
- High income Security
- Prestige Variety
- Independence Leadership
- Helping others Leisure

8. Interest
What do you like to do?
What’s enjoyable to you?

9. Holland’s Self-Directed Search

10. Holland Codes
Realistic – Practical, physical, hands-on, and tool-oriented Investigative – Analytical, intellectual, scientific, explorative Artistic – Creative, original , independent, chaotic Social – Cooperative, supporting, helping, healing Enterprising – Competitive, environments, leadership, persuading Conventional – Detail-oriented, organizing, clerical

11. Skills Things you do well What are your talents?
Knowledge through classes, jobs and hobbies.

12. Identifying Skills
Skills search
Transferable skills survey

13. Transferable Skills
Skills learned from one setting that can be transferred to new setting
- Budget management
- Supervising others
- Public relations
- Negotiating
- Organizing
- Interviewing
- Teaching/instructing

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