1. Careers and career choices

2. Self knowledge for career choices
There are 3 steps which will be discussed in this this unit that will help you make a career choice.
Self knowledge means knowing who you are, what interests you, what your strengths and weaknesses are.

3. STEP 1: Know your own interests, abilities, talents and strengths.
What are your interests?
What do you like to spend your time doing?
About what would you like to learn more?
What are your abilities?
What can you do well?
These include skills you can work on to improve
What are your talents?
These are your natural abilities you were born with

4. What are your strengths?
The things that you are always good at
What are your weaknesses?
What are you not so good at?
What do you not enjoy doing?
Interests, strengths and abilities can be grouped together into personality types…

5. Personality types
Realistic- prefers working with hands, tools or objects
Investigative- likes to know, learn, and analyse
Artistic- likes to use imagination and creativity
Social- concerned about others and their needs
Enterprising- enjoys influencing and leading others
Conventional- likes routine and rules

7. STEP 2: Know more about jobs, occupations, careers and career fields

8. STEP 2: Know more about jobs, occupations, careers and career fields
If you have a job, you are employed and get paid for working
Requires basic training
Occupations
This is the work that you do
Usually requires special education, training or skill
Careers
This is an occupation that you have for a larger part of your life
Gives you opportunities to progress and be promoted
Career fields
This is a grouping of occupations
The occupations have common skills, knowledge and work settings

9. Career field

10. STEP 3: Know the requirements for the National Curriculum Statement (NCS)
CHOOSE THE RIGHT SUBJECTS….
Requirements for the NCS:
The NCS is the policy on curriculum and assessment at school
It explains what knowledge, skills and values you should learn
It provides access to larger education and helps with the move from school to work

11. Subjects and career options
From Grades 10 to 12 you need
Two official languages (At least one must be on th home language level)
Mathematics or Mathematical Literacy
Life Orientation
Plus three other subjects (that can be chosen from a list of subjects)

12. Life domains Domain = an area
Quality of life = how well you live/ satisfied with who you are.
If you want to know your quality of life = look at you life domains.
Knowing your domains will help you choose a career.
Domains will help you see what is important to you.
3 Areas:
Being
Becoming
Community belonging

13. 1. Being Who you are : 3 Aspects:
Physical: health, nutrition, exercise, hygiene, clothing, physical appearance.
Psychological: mental health, thinking, feelings, self-awareness, self-control.
Spiritual: values, rules on how to act and behave, morals, spiritual and religious beliefs

14. 2. Becoming Is what you do to achieve your goals, hopes and wishes.
Includes: becoming who you want to be, what you want to have and what you wish to do.
3 Aspects in becoming domain:
Practical becoming: everyday actions you take to live.
Leisure becoming: activities that promote relaxation and lessen your stress
Growth becoming: activities to promote, improve/ keep the standard of your knowledge and skills.

15. 3. Community belonging Includes:
Fitting in with your physical environment and
Being accepted by your social environment/people around you.
3 Aspects in domain:
Physical belonging: link with your physical environment: home, school, workplace, neighbourhood, community.
Social belonging: links with social environment: family, friends, teachers, co-workers, neighbourhood, community.
Community belonging: Your access to resources and services available to community members:
clinics, health services, employment, income to live comfortably,
education, recreational and sport community activities.

16. Life domain:
Being
Physical being
Jogging, how I look, clothes I wear.
Psychological being
Self-control, being in charge of my feelings, self-knowledge.
Spiritual
Values, beliefs, praying, my ideas of good and bad behaviour.
Becoming
Practical becoming
Schoolwork, having a Saturday job at the library.
Leisure becoming
PE, hikes, jogging, dancing, TV, music, talking to friends.
Growth becoming
Getting fit, living healthily, coping with being a teenager.

17. Homework: Activity 3 Belonging Physical belonging
Where I live, my neighbourhood.
Social belonging
My friends and family.
Community belonging
Going to the clinic, taking part in community activities, having enough money to live well.
Homework: Activity 3