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Read to Learn
How to determine your values, interests, aptitudes, and abilities
The importance of good self-concept in choosing a career
How to identify your personality and learning styles and match them to career choices
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Main Idea
Developing a good self-concept and using it to guide your career decisions will help you lead a rewarding, enjoyable life.
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Key Concepts
Your Lifestyle Goals
Your Values
Your Interests
Your Aptitudes and Abilities
Your Personality and Learning Styles
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Key Terms
lifestyle goals
values
data
aptitude
ability
personality
self-concept
learning styles
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Your Lifestyle Goals
Considering your lifestyle goals will help you plan your future and choose a career.
lifestyle goals
the ways you want to spend your time, energy, and resources in the future
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Your Lifestyle Goals
Questions to Ask Yourself
• What do you want to accomplish in life?
• Where would you like to live?
• How do you want to spend your free time?
• Do you want a lot of money or just enough to be comfortable?
• Do you plan to have a family?
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Your Values
Your values define who you are, shape your attitudes and choices, and help you set priorities.
values
your beliefs and principles
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Six General Values
Choosing a career that matches your values can help ensure that you will enjoy work.
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Your Values
Influences on Your Values
People in Your Life
SpiritualBeliefs
SocietyPersonalExperience
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Six General Values
Six GeneralValues
Responsibility Relationships
Compassion
CourageAchievement
Recognition
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Putting Your Values into Practice
If you decide that helping others is one of your values, your career choices may include librarian, teacher, and nurse’s aid.
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Your Interests
Your interests are the things you enjoy doing.
You can discover what your interests are by trying new activities.
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Favorite Activities
Make a list of your ten favorite activities and rank them in order of preference.
You can add this list to your Personal Academic and Career Portfolio.
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Data, People, or Things?
Identifying your interests can help you recognize whether you would prefer to work with data, people, or things.
data
information, knowledge, ideas, facts, words, symbols, figures, and statistics
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Data, People, or Things?
Data
People
Things
Accountants, librarians, physicists, proofreaders
Teaching, counseling, training rescue dogs and their handlers
Working with tools, plants, machinery, equipment, raw materials, and vehicles
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Interest and Aptitude Assessment
An interest and aptitude assessment matches your interests and aptitudes to possible careers.
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Your Aptitudes and Abilities
Think of an aptitude and an ability as the “before” and “after” of learning a skill.
aptitudea potential for learning a certain skill
abilitya skill you have already developed
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Identifying Your Aptitudes and Abilities
Make a three-column chart with the headings Mental, Physical, and Social.
Ask friends or family members what they think your aptitudes and abilities are.
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Matching Your Aptitudes and Abilities to Careers
Try to think of at least one career that requires each of your skills.
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Your Personality and Learning Styles
Your personality should also influence your career choice.
personality
your unique combination of attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics
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Your Self-Concept
Your self-concept is the kind of person you think you are.
self-concept
the way you see yourself
For example, you may feel shy in new situations, but outgoing in familiar surroundings.
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Different Learning Styles
Being aware of your own learning styles helps you to determine the best way to learn something.
learning styles
the different ways in which people naturally think and learn
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Figure 2.2 Eight Learning Styles
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Different Learning Styles
You will do well in a career that suits your strongest learning style.
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Determining Your Personality Type
No personality is better than another, but some personality characteristics may help you succeed in a certain profession.
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Determining Your Personality Type
Personality tests can help you understand your personality type and how you behave in social situations.
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When the game is finished, close the Quick Quiz window andclick here for the next slide >>
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Section 2.2 After You Read
1. List the differences between an aptitude and an ability.
An aptitude is a potential for learning a certain skill; an ability is a skill that has already been developed.
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Section 2.2 After You Read
2. Explain how your values can influence the career choice you might make.
Knowing your values can help you select a career that is fulfilling, with goals that are important to you.
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Section 2.2 After You Read
3. Explain how knowing your learning style can help you select a career.
Knowing your learning style can help you select a career that suits your strongest learning style.
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