PRESENTED BY: Student Development and Testing

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PRESENTED BY Student Development and Testing
CAREER PLAN

• "By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you
  set in motion the process of becoming the person
  you most want to be. Put your future in good
  hands your own." --Mark Victor Hansen

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Upon completion of this exercise you will be
ready to identify your interests, strengths and
career goals!

• What is the best method to assure that you are on
  the right path for your career?
• How will you make sure that you are focused on
  the best choice?
• Which tools shall you use to make a decision that
  will impact all areas of your life?

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You've achieved success in your field when you
don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play." --Warren Beatty

• Think about your Daydreams, accomplishments and
  plans..
• What are three things YOU wish to achieve during
  your lifespan???

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Steps to complete your Career PlanI. Meet with
a Counselor

• Call the Student Development and Testing
  office
• [phone] Schedule an appointment
  with a
• Counselor to begin your Career exploration.
• Together you will
• Clarify your Interests, strengths and work
  values.

Tom BrokawFormer News Anchor and Managing
Editor, "NBC Nightly News" In pursuit of
passions, always be young. In your relationship
with others, always be a grown-up. Set a
standard and stay faithful to it.
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II. Follow these directions to complete the
Career Assessment

• Enter the site http//tn.kuder.com
• Register as a new user, complete the information
  and click on take an assessment.
• The Counselor should have given you a batch code
  for the Interest inventory.
• The Kuder Career Search with Person match
  Interest Inventory offers you choices of three
  related items. I suggest that you read all three
  of the choices then you must select from the
  three items one that you would most prefer, that
  will be your Choice 1. The next preference is
  Choice 2, and the activity you least prefer is
  Choice 3. Do not worry about your skill or
  ability focus on your interest only!
• Print your summary when you have completed this
  exercise. Look at the person match section under
  your two highest choices. Select at least three
  jobs that appeal to you based on the information
  you review. You can click on the icon and start
  a portfolio of your favorite job areas. If you
  are unsure of your career choice Look at Step
  III on the Assessment Results, review the sites
  identified.
• Job title 1 ____________________________________
  ________
• Job title 2 ____________________________________
  ____
• Job title 3______________________________________
  __
• Once you have listed your job titles, leave the
  kuder website and go to the following website
  www.tcids.utk.edu
• Select the area that says you already know what
  you want to do- search the career database-
• Type in your career choice and print each one
  notice the other links available.

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Call the Student Development and Testing office
[phone]. Schedule an appointment to
meet with a counselor Bring your career
information with you!!Ask for a code to take the
skills assessment!
Billy JoelSinger and Songwriter If you love
what you do, you'll always do what you love. And
if you're doing what you love, you're going to
become very good at it. And this is a country
that rewards excellence.
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III. Skills Assessment

• The counselor will give you a batch code for the
  Kuder Skills Assessment. You will then enter the
  kuder.com site as an existing user please use
  the same name and password to enter the site.
  Choose take an assessment and enter the batch
  code for the skills assessment.
• This assessment requires that you review each
  skill and choose from four items
• Choice 1 indicates that you do not have the
  skill and you dont think you could learn the
  skill. Choice 2 states that you can learn the
  skill with difficulty while choice 3 indicates
  that you could learn the skill easily. Choice 4
  would state that you already hold the skill
  identified, you need no training in this area.
  Upon completion of the assessment, return to your
  profile and compare the results with the interest
  area. PLEASE. print this page.
• READ Step III on your summary page of the
  Skills Assessment.
• Schedule an informational interview with someone
  that works in one of your three job titles. Use
  the attached questions to find out more
  information about the job, you may wish to add
  your own questions. If you need assistance in
  locating someone to interview, please contact a
  Counselor in Student Development and Testing.
• After your interview write a summary,
  highlighting the following areas
• What new information did you learn from the
  informational interview? Did the interview change
  your perception of the job, if so how? Can you
  visualize yourself working at a job like the one
  performed? List 2 positive and 2 negative areas
  you noticed. How will these attributes affect
  your career choice?

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IV. VALUES EXERCISE

• Many times we overlook our personal values during
  a career search. It is difficult to realize the
  relationship of values to career satisfaction,
  however clarifying our values will improve
  overall work experience and willingness to stay
  in a career field. When you complete the Work
  Values Profile offered on the kuder.com website
  you will note the values you rank related to
  work.
• You will rank the values items from 1-5, 1 not
  an important value and 5 most important.
• Please get the batch code number from a
  counselor.
• When you print your profile, note the rank order
  of your values.
• How does your job choice fit with your listed
  values?
• __________________________________________________
  __
• __________________________________________________
  _________
• Read Steps II and III of the Values assessment
  results, use the links identified to clarify that
  the values you hold are met with your career
  choice.

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V. Set Short and long term career goals

• Congratulations!! By now you should have some
  idea of the best career options for you.
  Clarify the following items
• Your career choice_______________________________
  ________
• What training and skills are required?
• __________________________________________________
  _____________________
• Explain how your values will fit with this
  job?____________________________
• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ____________________________________________
• How does the salary compare with your
  lifestyle?_______________________________________
• __________________________________________________
  ______________________
• Will jobs be available in an area that you wish
  to live? _________
• List the resources you chose to review
• __________________________________________________
  _____________________
• What is your next step? Lets write down a
  specific plan (goal) for achieving your career
  choice.

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of
transforming wishes into wants cant's into cans
dreams into plans and plans into reality. Don't
just think it - ink it!

• I will enroll in the following classes to meet my
  career goal
• I will plan to contact _______organization to
  find out additional information about my career
  choice by
• this date___________________
• A personal goal related to my career plan is
• (Note your goal needs to have a statement of how
  you will achieve this goal and when.)

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Additional information on career planning

• www.quintcareers.com
• www.3.dist214.k12.il.us/guidance/careerinfo.html
• www.jobscience.com
• www.careersandcolleges.com
• www.mapping-your-future.org
• http//careerplanning.about.com
• www.2h.com/personality-tests.html
• www.khake.com/page5/.html
• www.bls.gov
• www.jobbankusa.com
• www.cooljobs.com
• www.tcids.utk.edu
• www.ajb.org
• www.careerjournal.com
• www.jobs.careerbuilder.com
• www.career-edu.com
• www.assessment.com
• www.bgsu.edu/offices/sa/career/students/planning_p
  rocess.html