INFLUENCES ON CAREER CHOICES CHAPTER 2

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INFLUENCES ON CAREER CHOICESCHAPTER 2

• DISCOVERING YOUR CAREER

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People Who Influence Career Decisions

• Parents Other Family Members
• Expectations
• Encouragement
• Teachers
• Peers
• Employers
• Counselors
• You are in charge of your own attitudewhatever
  others do or circumstances you face. The only
  person you can control is yourself. Marian
  Wright Edelman

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Environmental Influences

• Work Environment
• Social Environment

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QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF.

• Do you want to stay where you live now? Rural,
  urban ,or suburban setting?
• How important is the outdoors in influencing your
  choice of career?
• Is climate important to you? Change of seasons or
  a consistent climate?
• Work around people or isolation?
• Write your responses to each of these questions
  on a separate sheet of paper.
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TYPES OF VALUES

• Personal Family Values
• Cultural Expectations and Values
• Economic Values
• Intrinsic--internal
• Extrinsic--external

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Write Down on PaperSelect SixRecord your
results on the same paper as slide 4

• Good Pay
• Career Advancement
• Respect of Others
• Being the top performer
• A nice Work Space
• Freedom to do projects my own way
• Rewards or bonuses
• Job Security
• Ability to do a good project
• Approval of the boss

• Great coworkers
• More Money
• The chance to plan what I do
• Feelings of importance
• Nice working conditions
• Giving support to others
• Recognition from others
• Opportunity to do new things
• The chance to talk to other people
• Being interested in what I am doing

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RESULTSIf you selected

• Items
• 1,2,7,8,12
• 5,11,15,16,19
• 3,4,10,14,17
• 6,9,13,18,20

• Then you may be motivated by
• Security
• Working with other people in nice surroundings
• Prestige and achievement
• Independence Personal Satisfactions

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Read Page 35 and decide

• 1. Charles
• 2. Alana
• 3. Bobek
• 4. Shelly

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ASSIGNMENT

• INTERVIEW TWO (2) INDIVIDUALS IN YOUR FAMILY AND
  OUTSIDE YOUR FAMILY THAT ARE IN YOUR
  PARENT/GRANDPARENTS GENERATION---DUE 2/7/08