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Title: Introduction and Learning Objectives


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Module 1 Career Decision- Making and Planning
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Introduction and Learning Objectives
  • Understand the career decision-making and
    planning process
  • Identify career planning needs
  • Develop an Individual Development Plan (IDP)
  • Learn how to use the Career Decision-Making
    Exercise
  • Understand the concepts of a career and life
    roles
  • Understand the importance of maintaining balance
    between life roles
  • Learn how different factors impact the career
    decision-making process

3
Career Planning Survey
  • Career Planning Survey
  • Makes you think about where you are and how you
    feel about your career plan if you have one
  • Helps you understand the emotional
  • impact of career planning and
  • transition
  • What do you need to do to resolve
  • career problems and concerns?

4
The Career Decision-Making and Planning Process
  • How have you organized an activity, such as
    planning a combat mission, a work project, or a
    party?
  • Did you follow specific steps in doing so?
  • What resources were used to manageyour efforts?
  • Making a successful career choice
    involves developing and
  • following a plan
  • See Discover Step-by-Step Instructions

5
Understanding Myself
  • Understanding myself is the first step in career
    decision-making
  • What is important to know about yourself when
    looking for a career?
  • Other resources
  • Talking with a CRMC staff member, family member,
    mentor, or trusted friend
  • Using the Discover program or other assessment
  • Envisioning an end state of success,
    satisfaction, or happiness in the worker role of
    your life
  • CPP and other local career assessment
    resources

6
Learning About Careers That Match My Personality
  • How do you go about buying shoes? A house? A car?
  • What is important to know about a career you are
    interested in?

7
Where and How to Obtain Career Information
  • The Discover program
  • MCCS Lifelong Learning resources
  • U.S. Department of Labor resources on the
    www.careerinfonet.org Web site
  • Occupational Network, or ONet, at
    www.online.onetcenter.org
  • Books and videos in the CRMC or base library
  • Professional Associations
  • Talking with people
  • in the career field

8
Making a Career Decision
  • Career Decision-Making Exercise
  • The Career Decision-Making Exercise can help you
  • Organize information
  • Prioritize what is important
  • Assign a weight to each priority
  • Evaluate each priority for each career option
  • Assign a score to each career
  • option accordingly

9
Life/Career Rainbow
10
Life Roles and Work-Life Balance
  • See Life Roles and Goals Exercise
  • Helps define current or future life roles
  • Helps you anticipate and plan for problems/
    challenges that may cause conflict/stress between
    roles

11
What Else Should I Consider?
  • Dont make decisions when you are
  • Tired or ill
  • Anxious or frustrated
  • Angry
  • Rushed or feeling pressured to make a decision
  • Unsure or doubtful
  • Did this have an effect
  • on the quality of your
  • decision?

12
One Last Thing...
  • Follow the Hip Pocket guide to making a career
    decision
  • Envision the end state of career success
  • Consider the obstacles financial, physical, and
    emotional
  • Get the resources you need to overcome the
    obstacles

13
Career Planning Developing a Training and
Education Plan
  • Identify skills to become qualified for a career
  • Identify skills you currently possess
  • Identify training to develop skills you do not
    have
  • Choose an appropriate college major, if required

14
Career Planning Developing a Training and
Education Plan (Cont.)
  • Find a college, school, university, or other
    training provider that offers required training
  • Locate all information needed to complete tasks
  • Get information on veterans and other financial
    aid information and
  • assistance programs available


15
Career Planning Job-Search Skill Development
  • See CRMC Job-Search Skill Development
    Workshops Schedule
  • Attend
  • Job-Search Strategies
  • Résumés and Cover Letters
  • Job Fair Strategies
  • Federal Government Job Search and Application
  • Interview Techniques
  • Job Offer Evaluation and Salary Negotiation

16
Benefits of DevelopingJob-Search Skills
  • More job offers
  • Better job offers to choose from
  • Better initial salary offers and benefits

17
Continuing Education and Professional Development
  • Lets consider
  • What happens to the resale value of a car the
    longer you own it?
  • What do you normally do to keep
  • this from happening?
  • What does all this have to do
  • with my new job?

18
Individual Development Plan (IDP)
  • See Individual Development Plan
  • A checklist to help keep you organized
  • Helps manage, organize, and add structure to your
    career decision-making and planning activities
  • Its your blueprint, recipe, or battle plan for
    career success!

19
Summary and Lessons Learned
  • Today we have
  • Learned about the career decision-making and
    planning process
  • Reviewed the Career-Planning Survey, Career
    Decision-Making Exercise, and the IDP
  • Examined the concepts of career and life roles
  • Stressed the importance of continuing education
    and professional development
  • Discussed the effects that certain factors have
    on the career decision-making process
  • Identified CRMC resources to help with the process
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