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© 2010 South-Western, Cengage Learning
Chapter
© 2010 South-Western, Cengage Learning
Choosing Your Career
1.1 Jobs and Careers1.2 Coping with Change andReinventing Yourself
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Lesson 1.1Jobs and Careers
GOALS■ Discuss 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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Taking Notes
■Together we will outline the chapter as practice
■Always pay close attention to the terms in green
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Careers of the Future
■ What careers are considered professionals? Why?
■ What careers are considered service jobs? Why?
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OOH Job Description Categories
■ Management■ Professional■ Service■ Sales■ Administrative■ Farming
■ Construction■ Installation■ Production■ Transportati
on ■ 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 business■ Purchase an existing business or franchise■ Start a new business from scratch
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■ Entrepreneur or not?
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Advantages of Owning Your Own Business
■ Make the decisions■ Be your own boss ■ Feel in control of your
own future ■ Keep the profits■ Is anyone interested
in opening their own business? What type?
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Disadvantages of Owning Your Own Business
■ Large investment of planning and money
■ High risk of failure■ Statistics show that most
new small businesses do not succeed.
■ Two most common reasons for failure:
■ Lack of financing■ Lack of skills
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Lesson 1.2Coping with Change and Reinventing Yourself
■ Explain 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.
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To Do:■Make a poster ■On one side put your career
■On the other your personality analysis
■Carousel
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Closure:
■Do you think your interest inventory was correct?
■Why or why not?
