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Choosing Your Career
1.11.1 Jobs and Careers
1.21.2 Coping with Change andReinventing Yourself
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Lesson 1.1
Jobs and Careers
GOALSDiscuss career and job trends, and
describe sources of job information.Complete a job analysis, listing positive
and negative features of potential career choices.
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Careers of the Future
Major occupational groupsJob titles and descriptions
Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)Monthly Labor Review
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OOH Job Description Categories
Management Professional Service Sales Administrative Farming
Construction Installation Production Transportation Armed Forces
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Job Analysis
A job analysis is an evaluation of the positive and negative attributes of a given type of work.
A job analysis can help you identify types of work that would be a good fit for you.
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Title and salary
Skills, education,and experience
Positive features Negative features
Job Analysis Form
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Positive Features of Employment
Salary is the amount of monthly or annual pay that you will earn for your labor.
Benefits are company-provided supplements to salary, such as sick pay, vacation time, profit-sharing plans, and health insurance.
Opportunity for promotion is the ability to advance to positions of greater responsibility and higher pay.
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Negative Features of Employment
Employee expenses include any costs of working paid by the employee that are not reimbursed by the employer. Examples include the costs of parking and transportation, such
as gasoline or bus fare. The cost of these expenses can make a job less attractive.
Work characteristics are the daily activities of the job and the environment in which they must be performed. Examples include working indoors versus outdoors, working
alone versus working on a team, and having a high or low degree of stress.
Some work characteristics can make a job less attractive to some workers.
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Entrepreneurship
An entrepreneur is someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the ownership risks of a new business.
Opportunities for business ownership Continue a family businessPurchase an existing business or franchiseStart a new business from scratch
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Advantages of Owning Your Own Business
Make the decisionsBe your own boss Feel in control of your own future Keep the profits
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Disadvantages of Owning Your Own Business
Large investment of planning and moneyHigh risk of failure
Statistics show that most new small businesses do not succeed.
Two most common reasons for failure:Lack of financingLack of skills
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Lesson 1.2
Coping with Change and Reinventing YourselfExplain techniques for coping with
change and reinventing yourself.Discuss the need for job networking for
long-term career success.
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Coping with Change
Stay informed Be a lifelong learner—someone who actively seeks
new knowledge, skills, and experiences that will add to professional and personal growth throughout life.
Take classes Upgrading—advancing to a higher level of skill to increase
your usefulness to an employer. Retraining—learning new and different skills so that an
employee can retain the same level of employability. Advanced degrees—specialized, intensive programs (taken
after obtaining the first college degree) that prepare students for higher-level work responsibilities with more challenges and higher pay.
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Complete a Self-Assessment
Think about what you like doing, what you do well, and what skills and knowledge you want to enhance.
Self-assessment inventory lists your strong and weak points along with plans for improvement as you prepare for a career.
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Self-Assessment InventoryStrengths Weaknesses Plan of Action
Education
Experience
Aptitudes and Abilities
Appearance
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Placement Centers
Many schools, colleges, and technical training institutes have placement centers that offer services related to careers and employment.
Services offered Assisting with self-assessment inventories Advice and counseling to help you determine a
career direction Vocational, interest, and personal testing Notification of job openings and assistance with
applying and interviewing
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Changing Career Opportunities
Long-term sustainability A world economy Networking
Networks are informal groups of people with common interests who interact for mutual assistance.
Networking includes making phone calls, sharing lunch, and creating opportunities to share ideas with your group of acquaintances.
