Name: Yunseo Jung
Career Life Connections 12
Transition Planning Part One: Career Choice
Post – Secondary Life PLAN A:
My Plan A:
Consider:
● What do you enjoy?
● What sort of lifestyle do you want?
● What are you good at?
Career Info that I have discovered
Consider:
● Upsides/downsides of job
● Job duties/ responsibilities
● Salary range
● Future outlook
● Lifestyle factors
● Advancement opportunities
Block: B
MY PLAN A: DENTIST
● Help and support others
● Learning about our bodies
● Staying in dental office
● Love to go see dentist
● Use critical thinking to help people
come up with solutions based on my
experience and knowledge
● Upsides of dentist:
○ Able to help patients
○ Independent in careers
○ Earn good salary
○ Could have flexible life
○ Could help the community
● Downsides of dentist:
○ Many years of school
○ Cost of school and practice
○ In charge of someone’s oral
health
○ Various patients
○ Focusing on small space for
long period of time (physical
health)
● Responsibilities
○ Serve with best care
○ For someone’s oral health
● Salary range
○ About $140000 to $250000
in Vancouver annually
● Future Outlook
○ Employment and dental
industry is keep on growing
● Lifestyle factors
○ Work long hours
○ Meeting various patients
○ Working with groups
● Advancement opportunities
○ Oral and maxillofacial
radiology
○ Oral and maxillofacial
 surgery
○ Oral medicine

Three employability skills I possess that ● Soft Skills

will support my plan:
Consider:
● Soft and hard Skills required for
position
● Personal attributes
○ Communication skills
○ Socialising skills
○ Attention to detail
○ Working independently
○ Working with people
● Hard Skills
○ Knowledge for oral health
○ Visual for patients
○ Physical health for
performing service
● Personal attributes
○ Knowledgeable as possible
○ Good hand skills
○ Being expert in what your
doing

Education needed to pursue my plan: ● Three to four years to complete

bachelor’s degree (related program;
Consider: biology or chemistry)
● Courses/training/certificates needed ○ Biochemistry
● Post-secondary requirements ○ Statistics
○ Physiology
○ Microbiology
● The dental aptitude examination
(DAT)
● Four years in dental school
○ Doctor of Dental Surgery
(DDS)
○ Doctor of Medicine in
Dentistry (DMD)
● One or years of supervised practice
○ Dental anesthesiology
○ Dental public health
○ Endodontics
○ Oral and Maxillofacial
pathology
○ Oral and maxillofacial
radiology
○ Oral and maxillofacial
surgery
○ Orthodontics and dentofacial
orthopaedics
○ Paediatric dentistry
○ Periodontics
○ Prosthodontics
Post-Secondary Life PLAN B:

MY BACKUP PLAN: MATH TEACHER

My Plan B: ● Help and support others
● Learning about new things
Consider: ● Teach others
● What do you enjoy? ● Love working with people
● What sort of lifestyle do you want? ● Spreading out and teaching my
● What are you good at? experience and knowledge

Career Info that I have discovered ● Upsides of Math teacher:

○ Bonding with teenagers
Consider: ○ Vacations and holidays
● Upsides/downsides of job ○ Clear path for future
● Job duties/ responsibilities ○ Internal opportunities
● Salary range ● Downsides of Math teacher:
● Future outlook ○ Bonding with teemagers
● Lifestyle factors ○ Salary
● Advancement opportunities ○ No flexible work hours
● Responsibilities
○ Teaching with best
knowledge
○ Students
○ Feedback
○ Assignments
○ Lecture
○ Test
● Salary range
○ About $45000 to $94000 in
Canada annually
● Future Outlook
○ Education industry is keep on
growing
● Lifestyle factors
○ Working hours
○ Meeting students and parents
○ Teachers meeting
○ Test and Lecture Preparation
● Advancement opportunities
○ Getting promotion
○ Could work internationally

Three employability skills I possess that ● Soft Skills

will support my plan: ○ Communication skills
○ Socialising skills
○ Problem solving
Consider: ○ Reasoning
 ● Soft and hard Skills required for ● Hard Skills
position ○ Knowledge for Math
● Personal attributes ○ Cooperative skills
○ Assessment
○ Analysis
○ Critical thinking
○ Problem solving
● Personal attributes
○ Positive
○ Open minded
○ Encouraging
○ Engaging
○ Collaborative
○ Resourceful

Education needed to pursue my plan: ● One or two years of Bachelor degree

in Math or subfield of Math includes
Consider:
● Courses/training/certificates needed state-approved teacher preparation
● Post-secondary requirements program
● Student teaching internship
● Teaching Certificate