CareerPlanning Hazards

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Hazards to beware of in career

planning:

Dont plan a career based on money.

Dont plan a career because you think you

should choose it.

Dont plan a career on a whim.


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Climbing steps to your career

These steps will help you:

Find out how to choose your career

How to reach your career goals.

How to remain marketable


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Career Planning

Steps to Planning a Career


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1 Self Assessment

Personality Values Skills Interests Knowledge&

Learning

Entrepreneurism

2 Research

Career Trends Information

Search

Information

Interviews

Job

Shadowing

Gaining

Experience

3 Decision Making

Career

Objectives

Personal

Objectives

Lifelong

Learning

Goal Setting

The first three steps toward finding a career thats right for you.


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Step One: Self Assessment

The first step in career planning process begins

with learning about yourself. Interestinventories, aptitude tests, and personality

indicators are some tools you may use to assess

yourself.


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Ask yourself some of the followingquestions:

What do I like to do?

What things do I do best?

What type of environment do I prefer?

Do I want to work with people, machines, or

data? What things are important to me on a job?


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Examine how you use your leisure time. Whatdoes it suggest about abilities? Interest?

Values? Strengths? And Weaknesses?

Talk with a friend or family member who is agood listener.

Talk with a career counselor and secure any

written material that will help you in your

analysis. Identify your skills, especially those you enjoy

using, your motivated skills.


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Take tests or inventories that measure your

abilities, interests, values and personality.

Write out your reactions to the results.

Look at your course work and other

achievements. Which subjects have you

done well in, or not so well in? What does

this tell you about your abilitiesmechanical

aptitude, verbal ability, numerical ability and

so on? Write your analysis down.


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Names of Inventories and aptitude test

may be obtained from the Counseling

office located on all campuses or on-line.

Most interest inventories are accessible online. The most familiar to our counseling

staff and office is the Discover Inventory

which is online and can be done in theprivacy of your own home by obtaining a

user ID from any counselor.


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Step 2 Research:

Information search

Research occupations to find out more

about the nature of the jobs that interestyou, educational requirements, salary,

working conditions, future outlook, and

anything else that will help you narrow

your focus.


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Research occupations on the internet, in

the career center and libraries.

Job information resources

Directories of employers

Company brochures and annual reports

Newspapers and journals

Government publications

Job Placement offices on GTCC JamestownCampus and other college campuses

Business magazines and TV programs


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Career Trends: Recent trends suggest aconnection between levels of education

and earning power. Pay can vary widely

between and within occupations.

Notice the trends and find out occupations

outlook for growth. Identify what trainingand education are needed to enter your

field of interest.


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Job Shadowing program involves

going to work for a day or several with

someone whose career interest you.

You observe tasks and skills required

for the job, experience the workenvironment and interact with people

who currently work in your potential

career field.


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Gaining experience while exploring career options,will give you a head start on your future career.

Take advantage of opportunities to try out acareer through work-based learning programs,summer or part-time jobs, or communityvolunteer.

Participating in worked-based learningopportunities will give you the edge whenapplying for new jobs. Work-based learningoffers a world of networking opportunities, the

best way to meet potential employers and otherpeople who can provide job referrals.


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Step 3 Decision Making

This section will help you establishobjectives in the areas of career, personal,and lifelong learning. You will be able toset goals and write a career plan.

Objectives in all steps are important in thedecision-making process. If you havecompleted steps 1 and 2 then you areready to continue the process of decision-making and planning.


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The Decision-making process can be used

for developing many types of career-

related decisions. For example, you can

determine:

Which occupational field to enter

Whether to start a small business

Which training/educational program to

take

Whether to change jobs

Whether to change an occupation


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Career Objectives

In order to establish your objectives youneed to have a sense of direction and somegeneral goals to work toward.

Organize your ideas into 3 groups; long-term,medium-term and short term.

Once you have developed your objectives

work backward taking one step at a timetoward your ultimate goal.


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Personal Objective

Once you have a sense of what you aretrying to accomplish you must look for

matches between your strengths and the

strengths that are required to do the

ultimate career goal you are considering.

Then think, what kinds of majors/

educational training fit the occupations I amthinking about?


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To be successful in visualizing

your work, you need to have astrong desirefor the goals to

be achieved, a belief that the

goal is possible to attain, and a

willingnessto live with the

outcome.


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Recent high school graduates will

have to include some education and

skill training when charting their careerpath. Also a need of ongoing

education or training in the future to

remain marketable.


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Education and training after High

School can be obtained by:

1. On the job

2. Private business or trade school

3. Community College

4. Apprenticeship

5. Fouryear institutions6. Military


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On the Job

You may go directly to work for a company orbusiness that will train you as you work. You can

inquire about programs for ongoing employee

training.

Private business or trade school

Short-term training ( one month to one year) is

available for some occupations, usually with nospecial entrance requirements. Cost and length

of programs vary and purchase of special tools

may increase cost.


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Community College

When considering technical, vocational programs, the N.C.Community College System offers a variety of programs (onesemester to two years) that lead to certificates, diplomas, or

associates degrees.

They also offer two-year transfer programs and specialized

training for industry. For more information, visit thecommunity college system website at

www.ncccs.nc.us
http://www.ncccs.nc.us/http://www.ncccs.nc.us/


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Apprenticeship

This is 3-4 year training program that

combines on-the-job training with relatedtechnical and educational instruction for

skilled occupations, supervised by a

master in the craft, trade, or occupationalarea. Apprentice occupations are

registered with the Division of

Apprenticeship, North Carolina Departmentof Labor. For more information visit

www.dol.state.nc.us/appren/appindex.htm
http://www.dol.state.nc.us/appren/appindex.htmhttp://www.dol.state.nc.us/appren/appindex.htm


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Four-year college

There are many public, private collegesand universities in North Carolina. Thelocal library, school counseling office, orcareer center are good sources of collegeinformation. Requirements are basedprimarily on high school grades andcollege entrance test scores. For more

information you can visit CollegeFoundation of N.C. at

www.cfnc.org
http://www.cfnc.org/http://www.cfnc.org/


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Military

An individual can work for Uncle Sam ad

get training, pay, room and board, and

benefits. You must be a high school

graduate. For more information contactyour local recruiter at the branch of service

preferred.

Lif l L i


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Lifelong Learning

Individuals will need to change to keep pace.

So that means continuous learning and updatingand ongoing adjustment to your portfolio of

skills and knowledge.

Learning can come from:

On the job training

Home through audio/video tapes, internet and

print materials Day or Evening courses in a community or

educational institution

Goal Setting


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Goal SettingA goal is the results of an aim or the end towards

which efforts are directed. A goal is where you

want to be.When developing your goals you must use SMART

Specific, Measurable,Attainable,

Realistic and TimelySpecific means detailed, particular or focused. A goal

should have the answerto who, where, what, when,and how?

Measurablegoals should be quantitative. Think of waysthe achievement can be readily observed.

Achievablegoals are self-maintained, the achievement

of the goal is up to you.


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Realisticgoals that are practical and possible.Realistic goals are practical and possible.

Timely goals are scheduled. There is a set specified

time of completion, a deadline.

A goal is where you want to be, but a plan is the strategy

you use to get there. Planning turns goals into tangible

small steps of action. As your interests and expertisechange you can adjust your plans and goals.


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4 Networks & Contacts

Work Search Resumes &

Letters

Interviews

5 Work

Work Offers &Acceptance

6 Life/Work

Planning

Re-evaluation

Second Set of Steps:


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Approximately 80% of all job openings are

never advertised.

The best approach to finding the most job

openings is through networking.

Networking is a systematic method ofgetting someone you know to introduce

you to someone you dont know.

Share your job interests and qualificationswith people you know and let them know

what type of job you want to pursue.


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Step Four: Network & Contact

Once you have decided on your career

field and completed the education and /or

training needed for obtaining a job, you are

ready for the hunt. Search for the right jobrequires you to use all process information

obtained from steps one thru three.


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Work Search

1. Get ready for your work search

2. Use traditional methods to find job

openings

3. Use creative methods to find employment

4. Research employers

5. Network: develop leads and make contacts


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Job Search Tips

Send e-mail to networking contacts

Search for job openings

Submit resumes to electronic resume

banks

E-mail resumes to interested managers

Post e-portfolios with digital samples of your

work

Research companies, industries and agencies


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Job sites

GTCC Career Center-Jamestown Campus

Employment Kiosk-Jamestown Campus, First Level

The RileyGuide-www.rileyguide.com N.C. Job Bankwww.ncesc.com

Americas Job and Talent Bankwww.ajb.com

Career Builder- www.careerbuilder.com

Career magazinewww.careermag.com

Career Resource Center- www.careers.org

Hot Jobs- www.hotjobs.com

Job Bank USA- www.jobbankusa.com

Monster.comwww.monster.com

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http://www.rileyguide.com/http://www.ncesc.com/http://www.ajb.com/http://www.careerbuilder.com/http://www.careermag.com/http://www.careers.org/http://www.hotjobs.com/http://www.jobbankusa.com/http://www.monster.com/http://www.monster.com/http://www.jobbankusa.com/http://www.hotjobs.com/http://www.careers.org/http://www.careermag.com/http://www.careerbuilder.com/http://www.ajb.com/http://www.ncesc.com/http://www.rileyguide.com/


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Resume

A good resume is an important marketing

tool that you can send to employers.

Steps to developing a resume:

1. Define your career job and objective

2. List all your past work

3. List all your education and training

4. Organize this information

5. Proofread and revise

Assistance for writing a resume maybe obtained from GTCC

Career Center, Career Choice in North Carolina and online at

different job websites.


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Letters

Effective letter writing is an essentialaspect of your job search

1. Cover letter

2. Thank-you letters 3. letters in response to being decline for

a job

4. Withdrawing from consideration anddeclining job offer letters

5. Acceptance letter


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Interview

Interview is a mutual exchange of informationbetween employer and a candidate for a

position.


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Supply information about yourself that is not contained in

resume

Show that you understand yourself and have a sense of

direction in your career

Enable the employer to evaluate your personality and

attitudes in terms of the demands of the organization and

position

Allow you to gain information about the organization andthe job, which is not available through other resources


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SUCCESS AT WORK

UNDERSTANDING WORKENVIRONMENT

Having confidence

Competence Dependability Time Management

Compatibility


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Work

Work Offers and Acceptance

ELEMENTS TO CONSIDER IN YOUR DECISION:

Company/organization

Management and co-workers

Potential for promotion

CompensationJob

Organization culture

Community


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LIFE / WORK PLANNING

Re-assess interest, the job

Ask reflecting questions of self

Ask that will answer how, what, where andwent

Does my chosen work fit with my life style

If your answer to most of the reflectingquestions is no then the planning cycle

begins again.


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Repeat

Steps :

1and 2

Repeat

Steps:

3 and 4

Repeat

Steps:

5 and 6P

laPlanning for your future isAn on-going process and will

Change as your needs do.

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