1. Self-Assessment, Occupational Research, Goal Setting
Career Development Training Program
California Conservation Corps
Module 1
Self-Assessment, Occupational Research, Goal Setting

2. Career Development Cycle
Self Assessment/ Research/Goals
Application/ Resume/Cover Letter
Job Search
Interview & Succeed at Work
Students will experience the full career development process.
The first step involves: self-assessment, exploring occupations, and creating goals.
The second step involves learning how to properly fill out an application, create an effective resume and cover letter, and how to get references.
The third step focuses on the job search. This includes how to research employers, tailoring your resume and cover letter, and networking.
The final step includes interview strategies and how to be a successful new employee.

3. Self-Assessment and Occupational Exploration

4. Why is it necessary to do a self- assessment?
Self- Assessments
Why is it necessary to do a self- assessment?
Discovery
Represent Yourself
Find A Good Fit
{DISCOVERY} Assessments help you discover what your strengths & weaknesses are including characteristics that are specific to you.
{REPRESENT Yourself} The information you attain is also necessary for later when representing yourself in your resume, cover letter, and interview.
[FIND A GOOD FIT] It is important to explore what careers and jobs would be a good fit for you based on assessments. Assessments help you discover types of careers that you might excel in and enjoy the most.

5. 3 types of self- assessments
Skills Inventory
California CareerZone Skills Profiler
O*Net Skills Profiler
Work Importance
California CareerZone Work Importance Locator
Interests/RIASEC
California CareerZone Interest Inventory

6. California CareerZone Portfolio
Self- Assessments
California CareerZone Portfolio
Creating an account will allow you to save your assessment results and favorite occupations.

7. California CareerZone Skills Profiler
Self- Assessments
California CareerZone Skills Profiler
Start a new Skills Profiler: Go
Begin Assessment
Skills Profiler

8. Self- Assessments
Read through the instructions out loud.
Emphasize that the 1-7 scale is the DEGREE of the skill you have. Level of expertise.
THIS IS NOT A TEST. THERE ARE NO RIGHT OR WRONG ANSWERS. YOU CAN TAKE ALL THE TIME YOU NEED.

9. Self- Assessments
Go over the first question in detail and make sure the students understand how the scale works.
Go to the next slides after the students have completed the assessment and are at the results page.

10. Self- Assessments
Ask for volunteers to share their top 4 or 5 skills. Students can update their Skills Profiler Worksheets with this information.

11. California CareerZone Work Importance
Self- Assessments
California CareerZone Work Importance
Work Values
Which of these are most important to you in your ideal job?
Go over each of the work values.

12. California CareerZone Work Importance
Self- Assessments
California CareerZone Work Importance
Go to Assess Yourself and select Work Importance Profiler.
Click on Go next to Start a new Work Importance Profiler.

13. California CareerZone Work Importance
Self- Assessments
California CareerZone Work Importance
For each of the 21 questions, you will rank order the phrases to reflect what is most and least important for your ideal job. You can drag each statement using the rectangle in between the number and the statement.

14. California CareerZone Work Importance
Self- Assessments
California CareerZone Work Importance
What do you think your results will be?
Make sure to update your actual results in the Work Importance Locator worksheet.
Ask students to write down their results in the Work Importance Locator Worksheet.

15. RIASEC RIASEC= Interests Self- Assessments Top Choices
__ __ __
Investigative (Analytic)
Artistic (Creative)
Social (Helping)
Enterprising (Influencing)
Conventional (Organizing)
Realistic (Adventuring/ Producing)
RIASEC= Interests
When your job matches your interests, you are more likely to be happy and successful at work.
When your job matches your interests and your personality, you are more likely to be happy and successful in your work.
The Holland Code, or RIASEC, is based on the work of John Holland, a career theorist who looked at the relationship between interests and occupational fit. As you complete the exercise, you will be identifying your top interest categories based on Holland’s Schema.

16. RIASEC Self- Assessments Realistic Investigative Artistic
Interested in Athletics; good with hands; prefer to work with objects, machines, plants or animals rather than people. Prefer to do the job without a lot of talk or debate.
Investigative
Likes to observe, learn, evaluate, or solve problems. This type is associated with scientific/academic pursuits. Prefer to analyze problems, evaluate options/data, set action, and analyze results.
When your job matches your interests, you are more likely to be happy and successful in your work.
RIASEC was created by John Holland, a career theorist who looked at the relationship between interests and occupational fit. As you complete the exercise, you will be identifying your top interest categories based on Holland’s Schema.
- Go through each definition.
Artistic
Interested in Artistic expression. Likes to work in unstructured situations using imagination and creativity. Relies heavily on intuition and imagination.

17. RIASEC Self- Assessments Social Enterprising Conventional
Likes to work in some helping capacity: informing, teaching, developing, curing people. Will try to find solutions equitable for all concerned. Good at networking with people.
Enterprising
Likes to work with people in leadership capacity- managing, performing, influencing. Prefer to investigate a direct plan of action to be carried out by others. Focused on achieving the goal, not concerned with minor details.
When your job matches your interests, you are more likely to be happy and successful in your work.
RIASEC was created by John Holland, a career theorist who looked at the relationship between interests and occupational fit. As you complete the exercise, you will be identifying your top interest categories based on Holland’s Schema.
- Go through each definition.
Conventional
Likes to work with data and numbers, more than people. Likes following instructions rather than being in charge. Prefers a defined structured plan of action. Attention to detail. Enjoys putting all pieces of a plan together.

18. RIASEC Code Self- Assessments Top Choices Social (Helping) S A R
Investigative
(Analytic)
Artistic
(Creative)
Social (Helping)
Enterprising (Influencing)
Conventional (Organizing)
Realistic (Adventuring/ Producing)
To make sure students grasp the concept of RIASEC, ask a student to tell you what they think their code is. What are the top three traits that they prefer? Explain what is it about the traits that they identify with.
Instruct students to go to

19. California CareerZone Interest Profiler
Self- Assessments
California CareerZone Interest Profiler
On the assessments page click on Interest Profiler
Click on Go next to Start a new Interest Profiler

20. California CareerZone
Self- Assessments
California CareerZone
Interest Profiler
For each activity indicate whether you think you would Like or Dislike doing it. If you are absolutely not sure about it, click on the question mark. Take your best guess, though. The more ‘Likes’ and ‘Dislikes’ you select will give you a truer result. This is not asking if you have ever done the activity before.

21. California CareerZone Interest Profiler
Self- Assessments
California CareerZone
Interest Profiler
What do the results say about you?
Do you agree?
Make sure to record your results in the Interest Profiler worksheet.

22. Exploring Occupations
900 occupations to explore
Assessments serve as a filter for you. Only explore occupations that are relevant to your results.
Occupational Profiles include:
Summary of job duties
Job titles
Educational requirements
Things they need to know and be able to do
Average wage (not a starting wage)
Occupational outlook
Similar occupations
Where to explore occupational profiles:
California CareerZone
O*Net

23. Exploring Occupations
Sign in to your California CareerZone account.
At the welcome page for each of the assessments, click on ‘Go’ next to ‘View Results’. Click on ‘View Occupations’.
Explore the list of occupations provided and bookmark any that interest you.
Update your Occupational Research worksheet with occupations that interest you from each assessment.

24. Exploring Occupations
The occupations list can be filtered by:
Job Zone- 1 is little education; 5 is a high level of education
Salary
Clicking on an occupation will take the student to a full description page.

25. Exploring Occupations
O*Net provides Occupational Profiles as well.
On the Skills Search click all the same categories from your Skills Profiler results.
Explore the occupations and update your Occupational Research Worksheet with occupations that interest you.

26. Exploring Occupations
Informational Interviews
An interview that you initiate; you ask the questions.
Purpose: to obtain information about an occupation or an industry. NOT to get a job.
Here are some ways to find people to interview:
Make a list of people you know and what they do for work. The person you need to interview may be a family member or close friend.
If you don’t know someone in that specific occupation, ask people you know if they know someone.
If that doesn’t work, look online for someone local that is in that occupation.
How to contact someone for an Informational Interview:
Tell the person who you are and you are looking for someone to conduct an informational interview with.
Ask them if they can meet with you for at most 30 minutes.
If they can’t meet with you, ask them if they know someone who might be willing to be interviewed.

27. Goals: Setting Your Course Toward the Stars

28. Goals: Setting Your Course Toward the Stars
What is a goal?
A goal is an outcome
Setting a goal helps you to achieve and plan the necessary steps
Types of goals:
Short term
Long term

29. Goals: Setting Your Course Toward the Stars
Short-Term Goals
Finishing C.O.M.E.T
Keeping up uniform appearance
Showing up on time
Coming to work everyday
Going to school everyday
Keeping up with volunteer hours
Receiving good evaluation with C1
Getting to know staff and other corpsmembers

30. Goals: Setting Your Course Toward the Stars
Long-Term Goals
Receiving John Muir Charter Diploma
Receiving CCC and AmeriCorps Scholarships
Receiving Class C License
Receiving Class B License
Promoting to Conservationist 1 position
Obtaining better Job/Career

31. Goals: Setting Your Course Toward the Stars
Question: What is the purpose of goal setting?

32. Goals: Setting Your Course Toward the Stars
Goal Setting:
Gives me guidance to things I would like to accomplish.
Helps me see where I have been and where I want to go.
Opens the opportunity to actively take control of my life.
Helps me make better choices and stay focused on a positive, high-quality pathway.
Can you think of other reasons to set goals?

33. Classroom Presentation

34. Classroom Presentation
10 minute presentation including:
Ideal occupation(s)
Informational interview overview
SMART Goal
Presentation format suggestions:
Powerpoint
Activity
Handouts

35. What is Next?

36. What is next?
Module 2: Application, Resume, Cover Letter, References and Electronic Storage
Employee History Template
State Application
CCC Resume
CCC Cover Letter
Professional References