Choosing Your Career

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Choosing Your Career
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Careers of the Future

• Will be driven by technology
• Will be information-based, requiring
• Creation of information
• Use of information
• Storage of information

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Careers of the Future (cont.)

• Will change frequently, requiring
• Continual updating
• New skills
• Retraining
• Will be more global, requiring
• An international perspective
• A need to understand other cultures and languages
• Better, higher skills training and education

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Features of Employment

• POSITIVE FEATURES
• Salary
• Benefits
• Promotion Opportunities

• NEGATIVE FEATURES
• Employee Expenses
• Uniforms and special clothing
• Transportation
• Non-reimbursed expenses
• Work Characteristics
• Personalities and conditions
• Activities and environment
• Policies and rules

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COPING WITH CHANGE

• What you can do to be a part of the future
• Read widely know whats going on in the real
  world.
• Be a lifetime learner join professional
  organizations
• Take classes keep upgrading and retraining
• Complete self-assessment activities

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LONG-TERM CAREER PLANNING

• How will you keep up with changing technology?
• Continue your education
• Learn new technologies and skills
• Develop an acceptance of change
• Accept challenging assignments.

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LONG-TERM CAREER PLANNING

• How will you become part of the worlds economy?
• Try to understand other cultures
• Learn another language
• Be more productive in the workplace
• Recognize the need for international
  interdependence

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LONG-TERM CAREER PLANNING

• What can you do to adapt?
• Engage in long-range planning
• Understand our world economy
• Develop networks