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Career Exploration Workshop

Day One

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Facilitators

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Day One Agenda• Day One– Introductions– Expectations for the workshop– The Bureau of Rehabilitation Services– Career Center Services – Collaboration with VRC– The Career Decision-Making Grid


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Day One Agenda - continued

• Opening Exercise• Employment Readiness Scale (ERS)• Life/Work Balance – Part 1• O*NET Interest Inventory• Memory Net - Achievements• Day One Thoughts


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Housekeeping Issues

• Bathrooms• Workshop runs from 9:00 AM to Noon and

1:00 to 4:00 PM• Breaks – 10:30 AM & 2:30 PM• Comfort – feel free to get up and stretch, walk,

if needed– Back Issues - Need more comfortable chair??

• Lunch – on your own (1 hour)


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Welcome and Introductions

• Your Name - • Your most recent Job Title - • Name one Skill that you have demonstrated in

the past from work, learning, leisure or personal life -

• What is your current Goal?– It’s OK to be undecided.


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CEW Group Objectives

• To assist clients in exploring possible future employment options.

• Participants will have the opportunity to learn from each others’ experiences .

• Participants will work in a team environment in both small and large group activities in the process of developing a possible employment goal.

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Our Expectations• You will use this workshop as an opportunity for Career

Exploration and Planning.• You will develop a tentative Initial Plan for Employment .• Attend all five sessions.• Be on time for sessions and after breaks.• Participate.• Take turns speaking.• Use “I” statements when expressing opinion.• Respect others in the group and their views.• Turn off cell phones.• Have fun!


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Group Confidentiality

• As a member of this group, we ask that you respect other people’s privacy and keep what is said in the workshop confidential.

• You certainly can share your experience in the workshop but we ask that you not talk about what is said by others outside the room.

• We cannot guarantee that everything that is shared will stay in the room, so only share what you are comfortable discussing.

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What Are Your Expectations?

• What do you hope to learn?• What would you like to get from the

workshop?


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Collaboration with your VRC

• VRC - Do you know who your Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor is?

• Purpose of Career Exploration Workshop– To help you and VRC develop an employment plan

and to help you become employed in job that suits who you are as a worker


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Collaboration with your VRC• Process of CEW/PD– Session 1 - 3-day series of self-assessments and

group exercises to help you begin career exploration

– Planning Meeting between Sessions 1 & 2 – meeting with VRC to review workshop results

– Session 2 – 2-day series of activities to complete a tentative employment action plan

– Follow-up Meeting(s) with VRC - determine next steps in developing, completing & implementing plan


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Your Questions

What Are Your Questions or Comments?– Feel free to record your questions or comments on the flip

chart during breaks or during lunch.– We will discuss your comments and questions as they

arise.


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The Bureau of Rehabilitation Services

- The Bureau of Rehabilitation Services includes: – General Vocational Rehabilitation Services (DVR)– Division for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Late-

Deafened (DODHOHLD)– Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired (DBVI)


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Morning Break

• 15 minutes• Bathrooms?• Refreshments?• Smoke? – outside of Career Center in

designated areas only • Return by _______?


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Maine CareerCenters Offer: • Library with Labor Market Information• Computer Center with Internet Access• Special Services – Veterans, Seniors, Laid-off workers,

Youth Services and more

• Employment Assistance – Workshops – Resume writing and interviewing– Job Fairs onsite or online

• Training Programs• Job Bank – see handout • Or go to – mainecareercenter.com


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Career Decision-Making Grid• Documenting what you learn after each

activity Pages 2,3,4 Activity Book• Includes information from the assessments,

activities and discussions • This tool connects what you learn about YOU

and possible occupational goals.– Does this job “fit” my characteristics?

• Completing the grid helps you to determine your goal.


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Noon Lunch Break

• 1 hour• Can eat lunch here or go out • Lunch alternatives in the area• Return by______?


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Where Do I “Fit” in the World of Work?


WORLD OF

WORK

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Opening Exercise

• Barsch Learning Style Inventory– Review the instructions– Complete the exercise to the best of your ability

Be sure to record what you learned into the Career Decision-Making Grid.


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How Do I Learn Best• We gather and process information in a

variety of ways called - learning styles.• We usually have a preferred learning style:–AUDITORY – by hearing–VISUAL – by seeing–TACTILE – by feeling–KINESTHETIC – by moving


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Barsch Learning Style Inventory

• Take the Barsch Learning Style Inventory

• Once you have finished, follow the directions for scoring on the back of the inventory.

• Take a look at the suggestions for your preferred learning styles in the blue “Effective Study Tips” pamphlet.


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Visual Learning Style• If you have a high visual score –

You need to: • see study materials• practice visualizing what you are learning• use charts, maps, videos, written notes,

pictures, flashcards• use brightly colored markers• write things out


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Auditory Learning Style

• If you have a high auditory score –You need to:

• use tapes for the lectures and review them• sit where you can hear clearly without

distraction• read important points out loud to yourself• gather in study groups and learn together


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Tactile Learning Style

• If you have a high tactile scoreYou need to: • write as you learn• review by writing things down• combine strategies with another learning style• have paper handy to write things down


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Kinesthetic Learning Style• If you have a high kinesthetic score

You need to: • Involve your body as part of your learning–Walk while you review your notes–Stand up on occasion to shift your body

• Use physical objects to help you learn – flashcards, hold onto a pen or pencil • Use role-playing• Use hand gestures or “body language”


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Barsch Learning Style Inventory

• What are your two preferred learning styles?• Do those learning styles seem to make sense

for you?

Record your learning style on your Career Decision-Making Grid, page 1, item 1, in the section titled “Preferred Barsch Learning Style”


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Employment Readiness Scale• Purpose P.7 Activity Workbook– To give you a measure of your readiness for

employment at this point in your life– Looks at 3 areas:

1. Challenges to employment 2. Coping skills3. Employability

– Helps you understand what will increase your chances of being effective in your work life

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Employment Readiness Scale

• 3 Types of Challenges to Job Success – –Personal Challenges (found at the end of the

feedback report)

• the ones under your control–Need for more education?–Health issues?–Personal relationships?–Need for additional income


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Environmental challenges -

• Are outside responsibilities that could interfere with your success at work– Children– Parent– Pets


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Systemic Challenges• System or Community Challenges–Transportation–Housing–Work Credentials–Financial aid, if necessary


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• Look at “Type of Challenges” at bottom of page 3 or at the top of page 4.

• Your responses indicated either: – Low = not an area for you to focus on – Medium = could be an area that needs your focus– High = an area you need to focus on


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Employment Readiness Scale• Supports to Deal and Cope with Challenges – Self-Efficacy• Your belief in your ability to perform well

– Outcome Expectancy• Whether or not you feel you can succeed at what you

try

– Social Supports• Whether or not you know where to turn for help

– Work History• Your past experience with work


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• Bar Graph – it is a picture of the information you find in your feedback report.– The Line that goes up and down shows adequate

level of support for coping in this area– Left of that Line – shows the need to do some

work in this area– Right of that Line – shows that you have the

supports for coping in this area - a strength.


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Employment Readiness Scale• Self-Sufficiency in 5 Employment Areas

– Career Decision-Making• How do you decide what you want to do in your work life?

– Skills Enhancement• How do you decide if you have the skills you need to do the work?

– Job Search• How do you decide where to look to find a job?

– Job Maintenance• How do you decide how to keep a job, once you get it?

– Ongoing Career Management• How do you decide to manage your work life through promotion

or job change?


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Now it is time to enter information into your Career Decision-Making Grid, on page 1 –

– Item 2 – Employability Dimensions– Item 3 – Coping Skills– Item 4 – Challenges

* This will help you to remember to discuss this information with your VR Counselor.


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Life and Work Balance – Part 1

• We have been talking about being employment ready, so how will you manage your time once you have started to work, knowing the demands on your time will change. P. 8-9 Activity


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Life and Work Balance Discussion

• What does your current pie look like - what is the allocation for each piece?

• Why is your time allocated this way?• Are you satisfied with this allocation, or would

you like to make some changes?

Go to the Career Decision-Making Grid on Page 1, item 5, and record anything you want to change.


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Afternoon Break

• 15 minutes• Be back at ___________?


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Self-Assessment: Interest Inventory

• What do I like to do?• What is the connection between my interests

and my future job(s)?• What is the connection between my interests

and my personal characteristics?


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Interest Inventory

• Interest Profiler – Computer-Based– 180 activities– Choose: Like – Undecided – Dislike

• Try Not To Think About:– Whether you have enough education or training or

experience to perform the activity, or– How much money you would make performing the activity

• Just Think About Whether you like this activity?


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Holland-Based Interest Inventory

• Go to the computers and take either the O*NET or other Interest Inventory

• Be sure to respond whenever you are prompted to print a particular screen or report.– Once you have closed out of the system, we

cannot retrieve your report.


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Interest Inventory

• Interest Profiler Page 10• Based on the work of Dr. John Holland’s model

of six personality types and the work environments that are compatible with those personality types


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Six Holland Types


Realistic Investigative

Artistic

SocialEnterprising

Conventional

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Six Holland TypesCommon Names


Doers Thinkers

Creators

HelpersPersuaders

Organizers

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What Do the Different Holland Types Use to Do Their Jobs?


ThingsIdeas

People

Data

REALISTIC INVESTIGATIVE

CONVENTIONAL ARTISTIC

SOCIALENTERPRISING

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What is your Type?

What are your two highest interest preferences? P. 11 Activity

Do your interest preferences match what you know about yourself?


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Job Zones

• A Job Zone is– A group of occupations that are similar in• How most people get into the job• How much experience is needed to get the job• How much education is needed to do the job• How much on-the-job training is needed

So occupations in a Job Zone require similar amounts of preparation to do the job.


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Job ZonesWhat do they tell us?

• Job Zone 1 - Little/No preparation• Job Zone 2 - Some preparation• Job Zone 3 - Medium preparation• Job Zone 4 - Considerable

preparation• Job Zone 5 - Extensive preparation


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Record Interests

On the Career Decision-Making Grid on page 1, item 6, record your two highest scores.

On page 3, item7, record occupations of interest.


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Definition of an Achievement • A Different Source of Skill Information P. 12

Activity• A Chance to Recall Skills from Work, Leisure,

Learning and Personal Life• A Chance to Take Credit for Past

Accomplishments• A Chance to Share Your Accomplishments• A Process of Documenting Skills for Future

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Achievements and Accomplishments (as defined by Richard Bolles and Bernard Haldane)

• Activities in which YOU were the main character

• Activities which you felt good about or that gave you some satisfaction

• Activities that you enjoyed doing• Activities that possibly challenged you• Activities that were concrete and time-limited• Activities that had a beginning and an end


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Homework Activity

• Handout – P. 13 Activity “Acknowledging Your Accomplishments”

• Homework Assignment– Generate as many achievements as you can on the

following handout and a phrase to remind you of this achievement.

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Demonstration of an “Achievement Story”?

• What are you hearing from this story?


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Day One Thoughts

– Any Reactions to today’s exercises?

– Did the exercises trigger any ideas?

– Questions/Concerns for the group or VRC?

– Your evaluation of today’s activities
