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 [email protected]