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Chapter 37 Identifying Career Opportunities 1
Marketing EssentialsMarketing Essentials
Chapter 37 Identifying Career Opportunities
Section 37.1 Important Career Decisions
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What You'll LearnWhat You'll Learn
Important Career DecisionsImportant Career Decisions
How to assess your values, lifestyle goals, interests, skills, and aptitudes
How to appraise your personality
How to visualize your work environment and relationship preferences
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Why It's ImportantWhy It's Important
Understanding yourself is the first step to finding a career you’ll enjoy. It is necessary to know your own attributes well when trying to select the most satisfying career for you. This section will help you begin to assess your attributes so you can match them with the right career.
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Key TermsKey Terms
values
lifestyle goals
aptitude
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A career is a series of progressively more responsible jobs in one field or in related fields. The following six-step procedure will help guide you in making career choices:1. Conduct a self-assessment.2. Identify possible career choices.3. Gather information on each choice.4. Evaluate your choices.5. Make your decision.6. Plan how you will reach your goal.
Choosing a Career
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The first step in your career search is to conduct a self-assessment. You can begin to do this by assessing your:
Assessing Yourself
values
lifestyle goals
interests
skills and aptitudes
personality
learning style
work environment
relationship preferences
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Values are beliefs that guide the way people live. When you have clear values, you know what you want out of life. You can then choose a career that is suited to your values.
Values
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The word lifestyle refers to the way you spend your time, energy, and money. Your career has a great effect on your lifestyle. If attaining a certain lifestyle is important to you, then choosing a career that will allow you to reach your lifestyle goal is essential.
Your Lifestyle Goals
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You will probably spend 30 to 40 years working, so you will want to choose work that interests you. To evaluate your interests:
Write down the things you like to do, including leisure activities, school activities, favorite classes, sports, and social activities.
Take a career interest survey.
Your Interests
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Your personality is the combination of all of the unique qualities that make you who you are. Understanding your personality characteristics will help you to determine what types of work situations will best suit you. To assess your personality, think of ways you would describe yourself.
Your Skills and Aptitudes
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Your work environment refers to where you work—the place and the working conditions. Working conditions include sights, sounds, and smells. Start thinking now about our preference for working conditions.
Your Work Environment
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All jobs require working with data, people, or things—alone or in some combination. These categories can form the basis for describing different kinds of careers. Since any career you choose will likely involve an overlapping of these categories, think about which category you are most interested in.
Your Relationship Preferences
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37.1 ASSESSMENTASSESSMENT
Reviewing Key Terms and Concepts
1. What should you consider when conducting a self-assessment?
2. What are values?
3. What are three influences on the lifestyle of an adult?
4. Why is it important to know what skills and aptitudes you have?
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Thinking Critically
Why is it important to set goals? What can happen to someone who does not set goals?