1. Choosing Your Career

2. Methods of Choosing a Career Interests Aptitude Skills Experience Values Lifestyle Status Money, Moola, Dinero, It’s all about the Benjamins!

3. What are my Choices? Diagnostic Medical Sonographers Say What?!?!? Career Resources: Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) http://online.onetcenter.org Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) www.bls.gov/oco Monthly Labor Review http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm

4. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Weighing my options Perform a Job Analysis Evaluates the positives and negatives of a job/field

5. Things to Consider Salary Incentive Pay Bonuses Commission Based Hourly Benefits Commute Work Environment Promotional Opportunities Work/Life Balance Autonomy Travel Quality of Company Compatibility With Company With Co-Workers Work Hours Daily Job Duties Is the work Rewarding?

6. Benefit Examples Health Care Vacation Time Sick Days Personal Days 401k Contributions— Match? Pension Child Care Tuition Reimbursement Gym Membership Bonuses Stock Options Transportation

7. Sample Job Analysis Pros Cons

8. Employee Expenses “I have to pay for WHAT?!?!?!?” Uniforms Supplies Travel Parking, Gas, Public Transportation Dry Cleaning Cell Phone Tools Union Dues

9. Self Assessment Inventory 1. Values Things that are important to you Ex: Achievement, Status, Autonomy, etc. 2. Interests What you enjoy Ex: Sports, Dancing, Numbers, etc. 3. Personality Individual Traits; Motivational Drives; Needs; Attitudes 4. Skills Activities you are good at Computers; Communication; Writing; Math; Artistic

10. Upgrading vs. Retraining What’s the Diff?!?! Upgrading Retraining Advancing to a higher level of skill to increase your usefulness to employers Enables you to be qualified for a promotion Increasing your knowledge of a skill you already have Learning a new or different skill to RETAIN SAME level of employment Ex: Learning new version of Microsoft Word

11. Advanced Degrees Non-Advanced Advanced High School Diploma Associates Degree Bachelor’s Degree Master’s Degree Doctorate Professional Degree

12. Does Education Pay? $81,172 $79,612 $64,116 $52,624 $39,364 $36,348 $32,136 $23,556 Yearly

14. Networking “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”