1. Evaluating Career Choices
Section 5.1
Evaluating Career Choices
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2. How to evaluate career possibilities
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
How to evaluate career possibilities

3. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
After choosing a career that seems right for you, you can begin planning the steps you will take to achieve that goal.

4. personal career profile form
KEY TERMS
evaluation
personal career profile form

5. Evaluate Your Choices
Evaluation usually involves comparing and contrasting sets of data to rank them and determine winners.
Evaluation can also involve weighing possible outcomes.
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6. Evaluate Your Choices
Evaluation can also involve thinking about your choices in light of your values.

7. Evaluate Your Choices
A personal career profile form is a chart in which you compare what you have learned about yourself with what you have learned about a career possibility.

8. Evaluate Your Choices
In a personal career profile form, you use a 1-to-10 rating system to express how closely your personal and career information match.

9. Evaluate Your Choices Values
Does this career match up well with my values?
Interests Versus Responsibilities
Will the day-to-day responsibilities interest me? Will I be good at them?

10. Evaluate Your Choices Personality
Will I be happy with the work environment and hours?
Data-People-Things
Do the data-people-things requirements match up well with my own preferences?

11. Evaluate Your Choices Skills and Aptitudes
Do I have the skills I need for this career—or the aptitudes to develop them?

12. Evaluate Your Choices Education/Training
Am I willing to get the education and training necessary for this career?

13. Evaluate Your Choices
You should complete a personal career profile form for each career choice you have identified for yourself.

14. Make Your Decision Have confidence in your research and evaluations.
Unless you define a goal, you are unlikely to reach it.

15. Make Your Decision Your choice is flexible.
Your choice will probably change as your life develops.

16. Evaluating Possible Careers
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Evaluating Possible Careers
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Chapter 5 • Developing an Individual Career Plan
Succeeding in the World of Work

17. ETHICS in Action Change of Plans
Your parents own a flower shop. Because you are an only child, they assume that you will take over the family business. They have offered to pay for your college tuition so that you can earn a management degree that will help you run the shop.
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18. ETHICS in Action Change of Plans
You have decided that you aren’t interested in business and have been taking courses in early childhood education so that you can one day be a teacher.
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19. ETHICS in Action Change of Plans THINK ABOUT IT
How will you tell your parents about your future plans? Do you think you should offer to help pay your tuition now that you have decided to major in education?

20. Key Concept Checkpoint
SECTION 5.1 REVIEW
Key Concept Checkpoint
Comprehension
Your uncle has been urging you to pursue a career as a real estate broker.
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21. Key Concept Checkpoint
SECTION 5.1 REVIEW
Key Concept Checkpoint
Comprehension
However, you feel you’d prefer working as a sales representative for a sporting goods manufacturer.
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22. Key Concept Checkpoint
SECTION 5.1 REVIEW
Key Concept Checkpoint
Comprehension
How would you go about evaluating these two career possibilities to see which one might be better for you?
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23. Key Concept Checkpoint
SECTION 5.1 REVIEW
Key Concept Checkpoint
Critical Thinking
Why is it important to evaluate and determine the career that suits you best?

24. Evaluating Career Choices
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Evaluating Career Choices
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