1. 1 Choosing Your Career 1.1 Jobs and Careers
MYPF 1
4/25/2019
Choosing Your Career
1.1 Jobs and Careers
1.2 Coping with Change and Reinventing Yourself
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2. Lesson 1.1 Jobs and Careers
GOALS
Discuss career and job trends, and describe sources of job information.
Complete a job analysis, listing positive and negative features of potential career choices.
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3. Careers of the Future Major occupational groups
Job titles and descriptions
Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)
Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
Monthly Labor Review
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4. OOH Job Description Categories
Management
Professional
Service
Sales
Administrative
Farming
Construction
Installation
Production
Transportation
Armed Forces
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5. Job Analysis
A job analysis is an evaluation of the positive and negative attributes of a given type of work.
A job analysis can help you identify types of work that would be a good fit for you.
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6. Job Analysis Form Title and salary Skills, education, and experience
Positive features
Negative features
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7. Positive Features of Employment
Salary is the amount of monthly or annual pay that you will earn for your labor.
Benefits are company-provided supplements to salary, such as sick pay, vacation time, profit-sharing plans, and health insurance.
Opportunity for promotion is the ability to advance to positions of greater responsibility and higher pay.
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8. Negative Features of Employment
Employee expenses include any costs of working paid by the employee that are not reimbursed by the employer.
Examples include the costs of parking and transportation, such as gasoline or bus fare.
The cost of these expenses can make a job less attractive.
Work characteristics are the daily activities of the job and the environment in which they must be performed.
Examples include working indoors versus outdoors, working alone versus working on a team, and having a high or low degree of stress.
Some work characteristics can make a job less attractive to some workers.
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9. Entrepreneurship
An entrepreneur is someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the ownership risks of a new business.
Opportunities for business ownership
Continue a family business
Purchase an existing business or franchise
Start a new business from scratch
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10. Advantages of Owning Your Own Business
Make the decisions
Be your own boss
Feel in control of your own future
Keep the profits
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11. Disadvantages of Owning Your Own Business
Large investment of planning and money
High risk of failure
Statistics show that most new small businesses do not succeed.
Two most common reasons for failure:
Lack of financing
Lack of skills
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12. Lesson 1.2 Coping with Change and Reinventing Yourself
Explain techniques for coping with change and reinventing yourself.
Discuss the need for job networking for long-term career success.
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13. Coping with Change Stay informed
Be a lifelong learner—someone who actively seeks new knowledge, skills, and experiences that will add to professional and personal growth throughout life.
Take classes
Upgrading—advancing to a higher level of skill to increase your usefulness to an employer.
Retraining—learning new and different skills so that an employee can retain the same level of employability.
Advanced degrees—specialized, intensive programs (taken after obtaining the first college degree) that prepare students for higher-level work responsibilities with more challenges and higher pay.
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14. Complete a Self-Assessment
Think about what you like doing, what you do well, and what skills and knowledge you want to enhance.
Self-assessment inventory lists your strong and weak points along with plans for improvement as you prepare for a career.
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15. Self-Assessment Inventory
Strengths
Weaknesses
Plan of Action
Education
Experience
Aptitudes and Abilities
Appearance
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16. Placement Centers
Many schools, colleges, and technical training institutes have placement centers that offer services related to careers and employment.
Services offered
Assisting with self-assessment inventories
Advice and counseling to help you determine a career direction
Vocational, interest, and personal testing
Notification of job openings and assistance with applying and interviewing
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17. Changing Career Opportunities
Long-term sustainability
A world economy
Networking
Networks are informal groups of people with common interests who interact for mutual assistance.
Networking includes making phone calls, sharing lunch, and creating opportunities to share ideas with your group of acquaintances.
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