1. JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, Ed.D.
7th Edition
Take Hold of Your Future
Session 6:
The Career Decision-Making Process
JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, Ed.D.

2. Objectives At the end of this session, students will be able to:
Describe their personal Career Archway.
Describe and give examples of different kinds of decisions.
Name and describe eight methods of making decisions.
List and describe the steps of the Planful Decision-Making Model.
Apply the Planful Model to personal career decisions.
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3. The Archway of Career Determinants
From Career Choice and Development: Applying Contemporary Theories to Practice (2nd. Ed.).
Duane Brown, Linda Brooks, and Associates (Eds.), Copyright 1990, Jossey-Bass, Inc.
Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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4. Kinds of Decisions
Decisions under certainty (outcomes of alternatives known).
Decisions under risk (objective or subjective probability of each outcome known).
Decisions under total uncertainty.
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5. Common Decision-Making Strategies
Agonizing.
Impulsive.
Intuitive.
Delaying.
Fatalistic.
Compliant.
Paralytic.
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6. The Planful Decision-Making Process
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7. Recent Decisions What was the problem or goal?
How many alternatives did you have?
Which strategy did you use?
What information did you need?
Which life roles were affected?
What outcome(s) did you experience?
On a scale of 1-10, how good was this decision?
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