1. Getting to Know Yourself
Concept #2
Getting to Know Yourself

2. Essential Question Journal Entry #1(A)
How do you think you should choose a career that is right for you?

3. Topic #2.1
Decision Making

4. Topic Objectives Name the seven steps in the decision-making process.
Explain how to use the decision-making process to choose a career.

5. Making Decisions Decisions are not always to make.
If you wait for someone else to make decisions for you, you may not be happy with the outcome.

6. Influences on Decisions
Attitude
Emotions
Values and Ethics
Family
Peers
Media
Society and Culture
Economic Factors

7. The Decision-Making Process
A series of steps that can help you identify and evaluate possibilities to make good choices.
The Seven Steps:
1. Define your needs and wants.
2. Analyze your resources.
3. Identify your choices.
4. Gather information.
5. Evaluate your choices.
6. Make a decision.
7. Plan how to reach your goal.

8. Setting Lifestyle Goals
Topic #2.2:
Setting Lifestyle Goals

9. Topic Objectives
Determine your values, interests, aptitudes, and abilities.
Explain the importance of a good self-concept in choosing a career.
Identify your personality and learning styles and match them to career choices.

10. Your LifestyLe Goals
By getting to know yourself, you can plan your future and choose a career you will want to pursue.
Lifestyle Goals:
The ways you want to spend your time, energy, and resources in the future.

11. Your Values
Becoming aware of your values is important in knowing yourself.
Values:
Your beliefs and principles.
Values define who you are, shape your attitudes and choices, and help you set priorities.

12. Six General Values Responsibility Relationships Compassion Courage
Achievement
Recognition

13. Your Interests
You should pay attention to your interests when choosing a career.
Your interests are the activities you enjoy.
If you are not sure what your interests are, one way to find out is to try new activities.

14. Data, People, or Things?
Identifying your interests can help your recognize what you would enjoy on the job.
Data careers include: accounting, library, or physics.
Data:
Refers to information, knowledge, ideas, facts, words, symbols, figures, and statistics.
People careers include: teaching, counseling, or training.
Things careers include: handling physical objects such as instruments, tools, plants, or machinery.

15. Your Aptitudes and Abilities
A potential for learning a certain skill.
Ability:
A skill you have already developed.

16. Your Personality and Learning Styles
Your unique combination of attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics.
Knowing your personality type can help you understand your natural abilities and which careers would suit you best.
Learning Styles:
The different ways in which people naturally think and learn.
Being aware of your own learning styles helps you to determine the best way to learn something.

17. Essential Question Journal Entry #1 (B)
How do I choose a career that’s right for me?

18. Bibliography
Kimbrell, G. (2012). “Succeeding in the world of work.” McGraw-Hill; NewYork.