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What Is Career
Exploration?
Career exploration is learning
about various occupations and 05
their “fit” with your unique
career preferences, e.g. the
skills, interests, and values

Exploration?
What Is Career
you want satisfied by your
career.

Ideally, you engage in career

exploration during or after
identifying your career
preferences.
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WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF
CAREER EXPLORATION?

• Fosters a coherent sense of self

or identity.
• Make informed career decisions.
• Make choices that are realistic
based on their personal skills,
traits, and interests.
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HOW DO WE EXPLORE CAREERS?
• Know Yourself – Determine what is
important to you and what you really
want in your life.
• Explore Possibilities- Research,
explore, and select a few options that
fit your interests.
• Make a Choice – Develop goals and make
a plan.
• Make it Happen – Put your plan into
action.
• Repeat – Learn from your experience and
do it all over again.
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Self-Reflection Questions for
Exploring Careers
A. SKILLS

Review your past accomplishments to uncover your

strengths, skills, and talents.

• What are your greatest strengths and unique

abilities?
• What technical skills have you developed?
• Do you prefer to communicate verbally or in writing?
How about editing documents?
• Do you enjoy analyzing complex issues, problems or
data?
• Are you good at multitasking? Making decisions
quickly and effectively?
• Do you enjoy coordinating projects, supervising
others, and/or working on teams?
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Self-Reflection Questions for
Exploring Careers
B. INTERESTS

Job satisfaction and success is closely linked to being

interested in what you do.

• What have you received praise or recognition for in

the past?
• What do you enjoy most: activities related to
people, things, or data?
• What do you do in your spare time?
• What courses or assignments have you found the most
interesting and were excited to work on?
• What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
• What problems in the world would you like to solve?
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Self-Reflection Questions for
Exploring Careers
C. VALUES

• What is more important: direct service to others

or service to benefit the “greater good”?
• How important is work-life balance? Do you want
flexible work hours?
• Where do you want to live?
• How long of a distance are you willing to commute?
• How do you feel about competition? Job pressure?
• How important is job security? Career advancement?
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Self-Reflection Questions for
Exploring Careers
D. PERSONALITY

Assessing your personality can offer insight into the

type of work responsibilities or environment you will
enjoy most.

• Do you prefer to lead or follow?

• Do you prefer to work as part of a team or alone?
• Do you prefer a regular routine or an ever-changing
schedule?
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Answer the following Activities 1-3 in a 1 whole yellow paper.

Submit them on Friday, February 23.

Please label the Activities 1-3 properly to avoid confusion when I’m
checking.
Activity 1: Parable of Talents
List your soft skills and hard skills in the table. Draw a table in
your yellow paper. The definitions below can guide you.
Soft Skills
What are soft skills?
Soft skills are personal strengths that help you
collaborate, lead, create, and grow in your role.
They're the perspectives, reactions, and mental
frameworks you use that aren't exclusive to your job.
Don't confuse the word "soft" with weak: you can
lead with empathy and curiosity instead of ego and
cruelty.
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Hard Skills
While hard skills refer to the technical abilities
you've acquired through some sort of training,
education, or experience, soft skills are the less
tangible personal qualities that help you succeed on
the job. If hard skills are the base of your career
pizza, soft skills are all the delicious toppings
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DISCOVERING YOUR CAREER SELF

Instructions: Learners will identify a couple of interests that they
would like to have in their future career. On a blank sheet of paper,
learners will record their thoughts into four quadrants labeled:

(1) Dream Jobs & Careers,

(2) Dream Activities,
(3) Dream Destinations, and
(4) Nightmares (include jobs, destinations, and activities that would
not interest them).
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Your quadrants can look like this

Dream Job and Careers Dream Activities

Dream Destinations Nightmares

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After answering the quadrants, answer the following journal questions.

Write the answers below the table

1. What are your thoughts about the activity?

2. How do you feel about the dreams you have written? How about the
nightmares?
3. Were you able to notice some pattern in terms while discovering
your career self? If yes, what is it?
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CAREER EXPLORATION WORKSHEET

Instructions:

List some careers you know about that sound interesting to you. Write
as many as you can think of in the space below. Then, briefly explain
why you like these careers.

Do this in your journal notebook.

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YOU CAN USE THIS TEMPLATE WORKSHEET
Have you thought about careers that interest you? Whether you have or
haven’t, it’s okay. Even people already in the workforce change their minds,
jobs, and careers. List some careers you know about that sound interesting
to you. Write as many as you can think of in the space below.
1. __________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________
5. __________________________________________________
What is it about these jobs that you like?
____________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
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Career exploration and pathway (no date) KSS Capstone 12. Available at:
http://kssgradtransitions.weebly.com/career-exploration-and-pathway.html (Accessed: January 6, 2023).

Career Services (no date) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Available at:
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/offices-and-services/office-of-student-affairs/career-services (Accessed:
January 6, 2023).

Explore career fields (2022) Career Center. Available at:

https://career.berkeley.edu/Plan/Explore#:~:text=Career%20Exploration%20is%20simply%20learning,career%20
preferences%20through%20self%2Dassessment. (Accessed: January 6, 2023).

Vien, V. (2019) Importance of career exploration for high-school students: Why?, CSEstack. Available at:
https://www.csestack.org/importance-career-exploration/ (Accessed: January 6, 2023)
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