Essential Decision-Making Steps for Career Planning
Explore the seven-step decision-making process for career choices, starting from defining your hopes and dreams to evaluating and making a final decision. Learn how to identify realistic goals and make informed choices that align with your interests and resources. Utilize tools like the Occupational Outlook Handbook and career surveys to research potential career paths. Make proactive decisions and create a plan for a fulfilling career journey.
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Section 2.1 ~ Decision Making Section 2.2 ~ Setting Lifestyle Goals Section 2.3 ~ Are Your Goals Realistic?
Section 2.1 Decision Making Section 2.1 Decision Making
The Seven Steps of the decision-making process How to use the decision-making process to choose a career that is suitable for your interests
A decision making process is a logical series of steps used to identify and evaluate possibilities and arrive at a better choice. The more information you have, the better you can make an informed decision. The seven-step process is helpful to use when you have an important decision to make, not necessarily deciding what your going to do over the weekend!
Step 1 Consider your hopes and dreams for the future Step 1 Define your needs Consider your hopes and dreams for the future Define your needs Where do you want to live? Do you want a job that allows you to travel? Do you want to get married and have kids? Step 2 Step 2 Analyze your personal resources Analyze your personal resources This is who you are and what you have to offer; your resources include: values, interests, aptitudes and abilities, personality traits and your style of learning values, interests, aptitudes and abilities, personality traits and your style of learning
Step 3 Step 3 Identify your career choices Identify your career choices Select possible careers that match your personal goals and resources Pay Attention to What s out there. Step 4 Find out everything you can about the careers you selected in step 3. The following are helpful tools Step 4 Research your career choices Find out everything you can about the careers you selected in step 3. The following are helpful tools Research your career choices Occupational Outlook Handbook, Career Surveys, Talking with people in the field
Step 5 Step 5 Evaluate Your Career Choices Evaluate Your Career Choices Based on the research you did in step 4, see if your career choices match your personal goals and resources Step 6 Step 6 Make Your Decision! Make Your Decision! Once you make your decision you need a plan, even if you change your career goals later on If you discover (by research) that your career goal isn t realistic or you don t like it, use the dm process again to arrive at a new goal
Step 7 Step 7 Plan How to Reach your Goal Plan How to Reach your Goal Now that you have made your decision, begin planning on how to reach your goal.
1. Define your needs 2. Analyze your personal resources 3. Identify your career choices 4. Research your career choices 5. Evaluate your career choices 6. Make your decision 7. Plan how to reach your goals
Objectives: How to determine your goals and values Why your values and goals play an important role in making career decisions Whether you prefer to work with people, data or things
Your lifestyle goals are the way you want to spend your time, energy, and resources in the future Your lifestyle goals are the way you want to spend your time, energy, and resources in the future What kind of life do you want to lead? What do you want to accomplish in life? Do you want a family? Do you want a house, apartment, condo? City or suburbs? How do you want to spend your free time? Do you want a large income, or just enough to be comfortable?
Your values are the principles you live by and the beliefs that are important to you. Your values are the principles you live by and the beliefs that are important to you. Your values may also include concrete things like money and expensive clothing Choosing a career that matches your values can help ensure that you enjoy your work.
Your values may change as you go through life, however, you will probably keep a core set of basic values that you learned as a child. 1. Responsibility Being responsible means fulfilling obligations in a dependable and trustworthy way. 2. Relationships your family and friends are important to you if you value relationships.
3.Compassion Is caring deeply about people and their well-being. 4. Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair. 5. Achievement Valuing achievement means wanting to succeed in whatever you do.
6. Recognition You want other people to appreciate and respect your accomplishments. Through salary, job promotions, approval and praise Many people share the same values, however they may practice it in a different way
Your interests are the things you enjoy doing, you should pay attention to them when your considering a career.
Identifying your interests can help you recognize whether you would prefer to work with data, people, or things. Data- includes information, facts, symbols, figures, or statistics People include people and animals Things-Working with physical objects of any size, tools, machinery, equipment, cars, instruments, etc.
