1. Essential Question: What are my educational and career decisions?
Objective 5.01
Competency 5.00: Create a career plan that leads to the achievement of career goals.
Objective 5.01: Understand the decision-making process as a component of career planning.
Essential Question: What are my educational and career decisions?

2. Vocabulary - Objective 5.01
Attainable: To achieve especially by effort.
Career ladder: A sequence or related jobs – from entry-level to advanced – available at different education/training levels.
Career plan: A list of steps including activities, work experience, and education/training needed to reach a career goal; step-by-step plan of action including career information influenced by the ultimate career goal
Compromise: Something that combines qualities or elements of different things; to give up something to reach a decision.
Consequences: Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition; the relation of a result to its cause.
Culture: Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
Decision: A choice or judgment; helps to meet goals; the question that needs to be answered in the decision making process.

3. Vocabulary (continued)
Decision making process: The process of choosing between two or more alternatives or options; most logical way to make a decision.
Decision making style: The typical manner in which a person makes a decision.
Environment: The circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded.
Evaluation: Comparing and contrasting sets of data to rank them and make a choice to develop a plan.
Flextime: A schedule that allows workers to choose work hours that fit their particular needs.
Human resource: That skill, knowledge, experience, and/or time that a person has inside himself or herself that can be used to help reach a goal.
Impulsive decision: Choices you make quickly.
Intuitive: Using a hunch to help make a decision.

4. Essential Question What are my educational and career decisions?
Assignment:
#1: Write down 2 educational decisions you will have to make (within the next 3-4 years). (college, major, career, etc.)
#2: Write down 2 career decisions someone you know has had to make (it needs to be only one person). (example, moved because of better pay)

5. Types of Decisions 1. Importance a. Routine b. Major 2. Categories
a. Personal
b. Work
c. Career
d. Consumer
e. Lifestyle

6. Decision Making Styles
1. Agonizer
2. Mystic
3. Fatalist
4. Evader
5. Plunger
6. Submissive
7. Planner

7. Which one are you? 1. Agonizer (Spends a lot of time making decisions)
2. Mystic (Makes decision based on intuition)
3. Fatalist (Feels that he/she has no control over decisions)
4. Evader (“ostrich style” – Ignores the decision)
5. Plunger (Makes “impulsive” decisions)
6. Submissive (Lets an authority figure make a decision)
7. Planner (Thoughtful decision maker – Makes decisions using the Decision Making Process)

8. The Decision Making Process

9. 1. Determine Needs/Wants

10. 2. Analyze Personal Resources

11. 3. Identify Career Choices

12. 4. Gather Information

13. 5. Evaluate Options/Make a Decision

14. 6. Plan to Reach Your Goal

15. The Decision Making Process
1. Determine needs/wants.
2. Analyze personal resources.
3. Identify your choices.
4. Gather information.
5. Evaluate options
6. Make a decision
7. Plan to reach goals

16. Benefits (of using the Decision Making Process)
1. Increases chance of reaching personal and career goals.
2. Increases opportunity to gain related knowledge and experience.
3. Increases chance of personal satisfaction/fulfillment
4. Affirms the difference between a series of jobs versus the career development process.
5. Can easily recognize the need to redirect goals as needed.
6. Provides a direct course of action for reaching personal and career goals.

17. Question…
Give me a few examples of dangers of making decisions without using the decision making process.

18. The importance of the Career Development Process in making career decisions.
1. Steps of the career development cycle.
a. Awareness
b. Exploration
c. Planning

19. Career decision-making
a. Determine needs/wants.
1). Options for career
2). Options for educational experiences

20. Personal Resources 1). Time 2). Money 3). Material 4). Information
5). Facilities
6). People

21. Gather Information 1). Self information a.) Lifestyle goals
b.) Personality
c.) Family/Marriage
d.) Roles
e.) Structure for living
1.) Geographic location
2.) Rural vs. urban
3.) Housing
4.) Neighborhood
f.) Preference for meeting educational requirements

22. Career Information a.) Environment b.) Education/training requirements
c.) Salary (benefits)
d.) Work values
e.) Duties (responsibilities)
f.) Aptitude (skill, ability) requirements
g.) Career outlook
h.) Working schedule
i.) Lifestyle goals
j.) Interests
k.) Values

23. Evaluate options/make a decision
1). Options for career
2). Options for education - College/training - program/major

24. Examples?
Understand the importance of flexibility and contingency (incident, possibility, emergency) planning.
What are some examples?

25. Factors that affect decision making
1. Personal priorities
a. Lifestyle considerations
b. Health
c. Relationships
d. Family upbringing
e. Resources – assets, funds, property, wealth
f. Education
g. Religion
2. Culture
3. Beliefs – idea, thinking, way of life
4. Values – moral, ethics
5. Biases/Stereotypes
6. Environment
a. Home
b. School
c. Community

26. The impact of education, work, and family on career decision-making
1. Trade-offs/Compromises
2. Impact of Education
a. Pre-requisite acquisition
b. Financial aid
c. Location of programs
d. Time
3. Impact of Work
a. Overtime hours
b. Schedule
c. Travel
d. Benefits
e. Location

27. Continued… Impact of Family a. Family work history
b. Influence of parents on career development
c. Family issues impacted by career decisions
1.) Childcare
2.) Eldercare
d. Impact of family friendly programs
1.) On-site childcare
2.) On-site services (banking, uniforms, etc.)
3.) Schedule
a.) Flex time
b.) Job sharing
c.) Telecommuting
4.) Flexible spending accounts
5.) Counseling/Employee assistance program
e. Stay at home vs. working parents
f. Family Medical Leave Act

28. Any questions?

29. Individual Writing Assignment
Identify the trade-offs/compromises in various situations and discuss. More than 125 words! 
Being a stay at home mom/dad.
Living in one county and working in another. (commuting)
Working at home.
Working shift work.

30. Group Activity Divide into groups of 3-4 students.
Plan and present a decision-making skit depicting someone making a major decision using one of the various decision-making styles.
As a class, try to identify the style of decision making being demonstrated.
Discuss the possible consequences/benefits of each method.

31. Symbols
Analyze the various decision-making styles through choosing a symbol or graphic representing each style. Use the symbols to create a bulletin board/visual display for educating peers about the importance of decision making.

32. Family Job Tree Essay
Draw your family job tree and write a one page essay.
Your essay can either be handwritten using ink or word processed with a computer.
The essay should answer the following question: In what ways do you think your family history of jobs/careers might affect your career choices?

33. Journal Entry
Imagine you have just won $10,000 in a contest. You can buy anything you want with the money. Using each step in the decision-making process, write a summary explaining your purchases.