Choosing Your Career

1. Could This Be You? Career Quiz2. Career Family Tree…week 13. Have students create folder for each class…focus

on Personal Finance. Show students how to save.4. Self-Evaluation Inventory (email)5. Take career quiz (options)• Quizopolis…need email (Choice #1 but need

email.)

Initial Activities

1. Professional Jobs◦ One of the highest paying◦ Being knowledgeable is key job skill◦ Involves creating, processing, storing, retrieving,

and transmitting information◦ Ex. Lawyers, teachers, economists…

Major Occupational Groups

2. Service Jobs◦ Dominated by information and technology needs◦ Use highly sophisticated information storage and

retrieval devices, from point-of-sale computers to optical scanners for inventory management & customer databases

◦ Large and increasing sector of the market

◦ Occupational Handbook◦ Possible Assignment: Create a job analysis detailing positives/negatives. Use p.9

for sample.

Major Occupational Groups

Salary: monthly or annual salary Benefits: company provided supplements

such as vacation, sick pay, health insurance, etc.

Promotion: the ability to advance to positions of more responsibility and higher pay

Others: commuting distance, parking, work hours and flexibility, etc.

Positive Features??

Maybe look at these as CHALLENGES Employee expenses: costs of working that are

not reimbursed by employer◦Parking and transportation◦Gasoline or bus fare◦Uniforms (maintaining and cleaning)

Work characteristics: daily activities of the job and work environment◦Working indoors v. outdoors◦Working alone v. working with a team◦Level of stress◦Time between breaks

Negative Features??

Entrepreneur: organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a new business

Possibilities:◦ Continue a family business◦ Purchase an existing business or franchise◦ Start a new business from scratch

Requires…◦ Large amount of planning◦ Work long hours◦ Large investment of money

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Stay Informed Be a Lifelong learner Take classes Complete a Self-Assessment

◦ List strengths, weaknesses, and plan of action(Prepare Self-Assessment Inventory…put on wikispace.)

Networking: ◦ “It’s not what you know, but who you know”.◦ Networks are informal groups of people with common interests

who interact for mutual assistance.

Coping with Change