1. Principles of Business, Marketing, and Finance
CAREER PLAN
GOALS AND INTERESTS

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3. Choosing a Career The Six Step Process
1. Define your lifestyle goals
2. Conduct a self –assessment
3. Identify possible career choices
4. Evaluate your choices
5. Make you decisions
6. Plan how you will reach your goal.
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4. LIFESTYLE-How a person spends their time, energy, and money
What type of lifestyle do you live?
What type of lifestyle would you like to have?
What changes have to be made?
Ask students to think about their own personal lifestyle and what changes they would need to make to have their dream job.
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5. Lifestyle Influences Where you live Your cultural environment
Your mode of transportation
Your relationships with your family and friends
The work you do to earn a living
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6. Values- Beliefs that guide the way we live
Identify your values
Focus on beliefs and actions that are important to you
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How do you incorporate your values into your career? Is it possible to have poor personal values and have a successful career? Have students give examples.
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7. Your Work Environment Preferences
APTITUDE An ability or natural talent, or the potential to learn a new skill.
Determine Your Aptitude by:
Your Personality
Your Work Environment Preferences
Your Relationship Preferences
Your personality is all of the unique qualities that make you who you are. Understanding your personality characteristics will help you to determine what types of work situations will best suit you. Your work environment includes working conditions, sights, sounds and smells. Would you like to work indoors or out? Most jobs require working with people. Do you like working as a team or by yourself. Can you handle conflict? These are the types of questions you must ask yourself.
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8. Multiple Intelligences-What are Yours?
Verbal-Word Smart
Logical- Logic Smart
Visual- Image Smart
Interpersonal- People Smart
Intrapersonal- Self Smart
Bodily-Body Smart
Musical- Music Smart
Explain that Dr. Gardner researched human intelligence and came up with the theory of multiple intelligences.
He believed that intelligence was not just I.Q. There are various ways people demonstrate how smart they are.
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9. Multiple Intelligences What are Yours?
Go to: to take Dr. Gardner's Multiple Intelligences assessment. Once you have completed assessment identify the 3 parts that have the highest scores. Research jobs on the Internet that fit with these multiple intelligences and complete chart located under Documents and Examples listing the jobs and explain why the job fits.
Explain that Dr. Gardner researched human intelligence and came up with the theory of multiple intelligences.
He believed that intelligence was not just I.Q. There are various ways people demonstrate how smart they are.
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