Career Decision Making

Career Decision Making

Suddhodan Baidya

16 Mar 2011

www.successbc.ca

Why do we need to make Career Decision Assessment?

Comparison between 80’s and 2011– One job Vs multiple jobs

Comparison between Asia and Canada– Education Vs Good Job

Stages of Career Decision Making

Self assessment (Who You Are?) Exploring career values, motivators, preferences,

personal strengths, limitations Career exploration (What Are There?) Establishing options, alternatives and plan B’s,

information gathering, networking, reality checking Decision making (What I Do?) Evaluating options, mapping skills and attributes against

actual roles, considering options and preferences, clarifying personal factors, making choices

Plan implementation (When I Do) Applicant research, CV update and applications,

preparing for assessments and interviews

Career Decision-Making Style

The Procrastinating Decision Makers

- “I’ll deal with it later,” or, “I just can’t decide.”

The Intuitive Decision Makers

- “I made that decision because it felt like the right thing to do,” or, "I just followed my heart in making this decision.”

The Dependent Decision Makers

- “What do YOU think I should do?,” or, “What would you do if you were me?”,

The Educated Decision Makers

- “I need to explore more options before I'm able to make a decision,” or, “I have gone over all the pros and cons and compared them to my other options.”

The Recommended Career Decision-Making Style: The Combination Style

Educated Decision Making style -Dependent Decision Making -Intuitive Decision-Making style

Factors of Career Decision Making

Interest Values Skills Education Physical Capability Social and Economical Factor Salary Labour Market Information

Interests Assessment

Holland Codes (Self Directed Search) Myers Briggs Types Indicator True Colors Personality Dimension

Values Assessment

Values Cards Values Questionnaire

Skills Assessment

Technical– Surgical– Artistic– mechanical

Transferrable– Communication– Organizational– Problem solving– leadership

Self Management– Punctuality - Dependability– Motivation - Positive attitude– responsibility

Labour Market Information

www.workingincanada.gc.cawww.statcan.gc.cawww.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/ www.craigslist.ca Association websites www.linkedin.com website

Education

Phd? Masters? Bachelor? Certificate ? High School? Trades?

Engineering? Science? Sociology? Advertising? Medical?

Physical Capability

Outdoor Indoor Lift heavy things Standing up for long hours

Social and Economical Factor

Have to take care of kids and family Religion Need survival job

Dr. John L. Holland, 1919 – 2008

http://www.chroniclecareerlibrary.com/CGP/CGP/Lists/all.html

http://www.roguecc.edu/Counseling/HollandCodes/test.asp

Go to vpl and careercrusing

http://cdminternet.com

NOC (National Occupational Classification)

APTITUDE INTERESTS DATA/INFORMATION, PEOPLE, THINGS PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS

http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/noc/english/noc/2006/welcome.aspx

Action Plan

Plan A Plan B

Useful websites

http://www.self-directed-search.com/ http://careerplanning.about.com/od/selfasses

sment/a/self_assessment.htm http://keirsey.com/ http://www.ipersonic.com/career/?gclid=CKS

_36nD1qYCFQpvbAod6xuTFw http://www.chroniclecareerlibrary.com/CGP/

CGP/Lists/all.html

Suddhodan Baidya

604-408-7274 ext 2046Suddhodan.baidya@success.bc.ca