Career Decision Making Using the WISE CHOICE PROCESS Worksheet

What will you learn from this assignment?

SLO#2: By following the Wise Choice Process, you will be able to explain your rationale for choosing a particular major and career choice.

SLO#3: By following the Wise Choice Process, you will be able to evaluate 3 career choices by demonstrating effective decision-making skills.

To help you in making a wise choice, take the Kuder Assessment. Kuder will identify a number of career clusters that match your interests, skills, and work values. Investigate the career clusters. You may find careers you didn’t know existed!

Attach a copy of your Kuder results to this worksheet.

Fill in the worksheet blanks to answer the following questions related to the Wise Choice Process.

What’s my present situation?

Example: I am enrolled in college and need to choose a career.

How would I like my situation to be?

Example: I would like to have a career chosen which will help me to select my college major.

What are my possible choices?

After taking the Kuder, I selected the following career choices:

A. Career Choice #1:

B. Career Choice #2:

C. Career Choice #3:

What’s the likely outcome of each possible choice?

Briefly summarize the following information from Kuder for each of your career choices:

A. Career Choice #1:

Education

Skills

Salary

Outlook

B. Career Choice #2:

Education

Skills

Salary

Outlook

C. Career Choice #3

Education

Skills

Salary

Outlook

You also need to consider family obligations, your living, financial, personal and social commitments, health concerns and your motivation.

Which choice(s) will I commit to doing? Now that you’ve explored your 3 career choices, select the one you want to go into.

I will commit to (career you picked) _____________ because (why) ________ _______________________

_____ I have filed the correct degree plan.

When and how will I evaluate my plan (SLO#2)? Identify criteria you will use to determine if your choice was the correct choice. For example, to be eligible for a slot in a particular major, you must have a certain grade point average. Do your current grades reflect the necessary requirements? Are you completing all assignments on time if that is a requirement to be successful in a course? There may be a number of checkpoints in your plan if you included several short and long term goals. Check them

frequently to see if you are “on course”.

I will do the following _______________________ to help me to see if this is still the career I want to pursue.