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Career Exploration &Plan Development Workshop
Day Three
Questions?
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Day Three Agenda
• Achievement Story #1 p. 28-31 Activity Words• Where Am I Going?– Labor Market Information– Occupational Exploration
• Achievement Story #2 Preparation• Prepare for Meeting with VRC• Day Three Thoughts
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My Achievement Story
• Achievement Story #1• Telling your achievement story– Eventually you could use the skills from
your story for your resume.
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Group Process• Group Process Steps–You will have a storyteller and listeners–the Storyteller has responsibilities–The Listener has responsibilities
• Goal is to have more of an awareness and comfort level identifying and discussing skills .
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Storyteller’s Responsibilities
• You will read, show or tell your achievement story. • When you have finished your story, the group
will share the skills they heard from your achievement.• Answer any questions that group members
may ask about your story – remember, they’re helping you discover all of your skills.
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Listener’s ResponsibilitiesThe Listeners:• As the story is being told, each listener will list all of
the skills that he/she hears from the story.• Listener’s may use the skill list to help identify the
skills from the story.• When the storyteller completes his/her story,
listeners may want to ask questions.– The idea is to help the storyteller identify their
skills by asking helpful questions.– Record any additional skills you discover.
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Listener’s Responsibilities (cont.)
• When the storyteller has finished answering questions from all listeners:
– Each listener, in turn, will tell the storyteller the list of skills they wrote.
– The Listener will then give the storyteller his/her skill card.
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Who Goes First?
• Could we have a volunteer to get things started?
• Listeners, you have your responsibilities – are you ready?
• Storyteller, are you ready?
The floor is yours ----
My Achievement Story #1
• What did you learn through the group process?
• How did it feel to get this feedback from the group?
Record your skills on Career Decision-Making Grid (Pg. 2, # 19) – record your Achievement Story skills.
Place your Achievement Story in your folder.
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Morning Break
• Be back at ___________
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Noon Lunch Break
• Back at __________
• Have a pleasant lunch.
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Where Am I Going?
• Labor Market Information – What is Labor Market Information?• Job Trends – growth or decline• Job Availability by state, area, etc.• Occupational Wages• Job Statistics
– Why do you need it?
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Labor Market Information Resources
• Maine Labor Market Information – Google = Maine Employment Information Guide• Click on Career Assistance• Go to Career Informer• Select Maine Statewide• Type in a job of interest• Click on Search• Explore!
Place any occupational information gathered in your binder.
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Occupational Exploration – Where Do I Find Information on Occupations?
OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION RESOURCES • Career Centers• Print Materials• Computer Resources– Career Center website– O*NET
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So, How Do I Explore Occupations?
CLUES?• Are there any occupations or groups of
occupations that have “matched” any of the self-assessment results that you completed?– Consider what is in your Career Decision-
Making Grid (Page 4).• How do your job choices compare to the Interests,
Values, Aptitudes, Skills you discovered from your assessments?
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What is O*NET?
• What is O*NET? P. 23-27 Activity–A Department of Labor public website
providing information about occupations–http://online.onetcenter.org–Accessible – 24/7–Has Job Accommodation links!
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How Do I Use O*NET?
• Using O*NET at home, in the Career Center or anywhere else that has internet access:– Type in http://online.onetcenter.org– Click on “Find Occupations” to get occupational
information.– You will want to find a Job Title to research; for
example – Rehabilitation Counselor
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How Do I Connect “ME” to Possible Occupations?
• Print lists and appropriate profiles from O*NET and other resources.
• Select job titles that seem to provide good possibilities, and compare the occupational characteristics with your characteristics through the Career Decision-Making Grid.
Career Decision-Making Grid (Pg. 3, item 11): Explore those job titles. Place any occupational profiles you have printed in your binder.
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Other O*Net Information• Start with O*NET occupational profile page.– Scroll down to end of any occupational profile.
• Under “Wages & Employment Trends”, see “State & National.”
• Select Maine: click on “Go.”– You are now on the Career One-Stop Maine
Profile for your occupation of interest– Review occupational information for State of
Maine.
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Other Occupational Resources
• At the top of the Career One-Stop page, look on the right-side for “More Resources.”
• Click on arrow and select “Occupational Outlook Handbook” (OOH); click on “Go.”
• You are now on Bureau of Labor Statistics OOH main page.
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Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
• You can search by occupational groups or by 5 different areas:– Median Pay; Entry Level; On the Job; # of New
Jobs; Growth Rate
• Begin by typing in an occupation of interest• Click on “GO.”– find the appropriate profile of information for
your career of interest.
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Afternoon Break
• Back by _________
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Achievement Story # 2
• Do you have a better idea of how to write a more complete Achievement Story?– Don’t forget or overlook the skills related to the
achievement story.
• Questions about writing your second Achievement Story?
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Meeting with your Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor (VRC)
• 2 Homework Assignments:1. Meet with your Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor before the
next workshop session next week. a. Bring your Notebook and your Career Decision-Making Grid.b. This is an opportunity to share the results of the workshop: self-assessments, activities, discussions, achievement stories, tentative employment ideas, questions that you may have.c. Be prepared to talk briefly and generally to the group on Day 4 about the topics/issues discussed with your VRC.
2. Write Achievement Story #2.
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Day Three Thoughts?
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