Lesson 3 PSHECareers Education

Learning Intentions

• You are going to consider where you can get help / support / information from when making option choice decisions

• Make you think about thinking…help your ability to make decisions

• Further explore ‘JOBS’ from the past and present

So far….• We have considered the options process

• We have thought about the importance of careers education in relation to choosing your curricular subjects

• We have thought about how well we are getting on in each of our subjects this session

• We have identified the subjects we are good at

• We have identified links between activities and careers

• We have identified what we like

• We have linked our interests and qualities to careers

• We have found out how to use the planITplus website

Help and Advice

• Consider the following scenario

• After applying for a job as a shop assistant in a shop in town, you have been asked to attend an interview.

• In your group, write down all the things you should consider to help you prepare, as well as all the people you would get advice from

• What time you need to be there at• How you are going to get there• What you are going to wear• What kind of questions you might be asked and

what your answers would be• Help from

» Parents/carers» Friends» Friends of parents…neighbours» Relatives» Teachers

Help and Advice….some ideas

Now

• In your group, write down all the things you should consider, that would help you prepare to make your option choices.

• Who you would ask for help ?

• Who would you get advice from ?

I should…• Think about what I like and what I’m good at

• Make sure I know about the option process and its different stages

• Ask particular teachers for subject advice if I have any queries

• Make an appointment to meet the school connexions advisor ask your pupil support teacher

• Speak to others about my choices and listen to and consider their advice

» Others being parents/teachers/careers officer/friends/relatives

• By thinking about all of these things and preparing properly….you should be in a good position to choose suitable and relevant S3 subjects

Making Decisions

• What kind of skills do you need ?

Lateral Thinking…may help when making decisions

• Lateral thinking, is the ability to think creatively, or "outside the box" as it is sometimes referred to in business, to use your inspiration and imagination to solve problems by looking at them from unexpected perspectives. Lateral thinking involves discarding the obvious, leaving behind traditional modes of thought, and throwing away preconceptions.

• It's very important in careers such as advertising, marketing, the media and art and design where you may get questions in the selection process along the lines of "Write down one hundred ways to use a brick/paperclip", but it can also be of value in the job hunting process itself.

Lateral Thinking Quiz

• The following questions will test your ability to think laterally. If you get more than 50% of these right you're certainly strong on your lateral thinking skills (or maybe you're just good at quizzes!)

A graduate applying for pilot training with a major airline was asked what he would do if, after a long-haul flight to Sydney, he met the captain wearing a dress in the hotel bar. What would you do?

• Offer to buy her a drink! The captain was of course a woman. Many airlines are now hot on equal opportunities and a candidate who had difficulty envisaging that an airline captain might be female would not go very far!

What can you hold in your right hand,

but not in your left?

• Your left hand, forearm or elbow.

If you have two coins totaling 11p, and one of the coins is not a penny, what are the two coins?

• 10p and 1p - the other coin can be a penny!

What can you put in a wooden box that would make it lighter? The more of them you put in the lighter it becomes, yet the box stays empty.

• Holes

A woman lives on the tenth floor of a block of flats. Every morning she takes the lift down to the ground floor and goes to work. In the evening, she gets into the lift, and, if there is someone else in the lift she goes back to her floor directly. Otherwise, she goes to the

eighth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to her flat. How do you explain this?

• The woman is of small stature and couldn't reach the upper lift buttons.

How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, and make it stop and return to you, without hitting anything and with nothing attached to it?

• Go outside and throw it upwards.

Past and Present Jobs…what does it all mean?

• Play the following game to investigate jobs from the past and present

• modern and ancient jobs