Career

Coaching
Career Choices
Putting the Pieces Together
 Sections

Introduction Career
to Career Choices
Coaching

Tests &
Quizzes
 Objectives
• Understand career planning

• Have important information about career goals

• Determine their personality and career interest

• Explore different career options

• Understand in simple terms the trends of the labor

market
 Career Planning Quiz

True or False?
• Career choice is one of life’s
most important decisions. True

• Selecting a career that matches your

interests, skills and values increase
your chance for success and happiness. True

• Tools/resources are readily available

to make an informed career choice. True

• Today, most students/parents use

False
these tools.
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 Planning
• Steps:
– What are your interest?
– What do you want to be?
– What are your skills?
– What types of careers fit your
skills and interest?
– How do you prepare for the
career?
 Planning
• Steps:

1 Learn about yourself

2 Learn about careers

3 Make a plan
 Life After High School
• What do you want to be when you
grow up?
• It is never too early to start thinking
about the future!
• What you are doing in school now will
have an impact in what you do in the
future.
 Who Are You?

• What do I like doing?

• What are activities I don’t like?

• What are my interests?

• What values are important to me?

• What are my talents?

• What am I good at doing?

 Where Are You Going?

• What are my goals?

• What kind of jobs are available?

• What are the different jobs that match

my skills?
 Take Action!
• Set goals for yourself
• List down all the kinds of jobs that you
can do
• Find out more about the jobs that you
can do
• Find out what college courses you can
take to develop skills for these jobs
• What are other things you can do? 
 Definitions
• Task: activities that you accomplish each
day that comprise your job
• Job: position that you fulfill each day as a
Step in your Career Ladder
• Career: the progression of Jobs fulfilling
your goals within your Occupation…
• Occupation: the Area of Interest or Industry
within which you work
Where and How do I start?
WRONG QUESTIONS
• What jobs are in demand?

• What are the most high paying jobs?

• What jobs can I do abroad?

• What jobs require minimal effort for high salary?

• What jobs have the shortest hours?

• Which career can get me promoted faster?

• What jobs are expanding quickly?

 RIGHT QUESTIONS

• What will make me happy?

• What am I passionate about?

• What do I dream of doing?

• What do I really want to do?

Let’s start with finding out who you are.
 Career Goal
• What is your Career Goal?

 Generally, a career goal is based on your skills

and interests, career possibilities, and job
trends.
 A career goal can be a specific job you want to
do -- such as doctor or teacher -- or a career
goal can be a particular field you want to work
in, such as medicine or education.
 Career Goal
• What is your Career Goal?
help you discover career possibilities that
you wouldn't have thought of otherwise.
guide you into doing what you want with
your life -- rather than just drifting into a job.
helps you focus on what you want to do for
a living.
 Career Goal
• What is your Career Goal?
 Once you have chosen a career, think
strategically about the steps to accomplish your
goal.
 A career plan determines your skills and
interests, what career best suits your talents,
and what skills and training you need for your
chosen career.
 Interests
• Teenage is a perfect time to explore your
interests seriously and to begin
investigating your career choices.

What are Your

Interests?
 I nt e r e s t
• What are your interests?
– What do you like to do? Think about
experiences you have enjoyed.
– What kind of school, religious, social, or
sports activities do you like?
– Make a list of 10 activities you have enjoyed
doing in the past four years.
 I nt e r e s t
• What are your interests?
Evaluate those interests.
Think about what you liked about the
activities.
What challenges did the activities offer?

What skills do you need to develop

further to continue in those activities?
• Realistic
RIASEC
Mechanical Careers
• Investigative
Technical/Science Careers
• Artistic
Creative/Artistic Careers
• Social
Social Service/People-Oriented Careers
• Enterprising
Business and Sales-Oriented Careers
• Conventional
Office-based or Financial-oriented Careers
 Realistic
• You are: mechanical
• You like: working with mechanical or electric
equipment, building things, using tools
• You can be a: Engineer
– Architect
– Forester
– Pilot
– Military Officer
– Crafts Person
– Fish and Game Warden
– Industrial Arts Teacher
 Investigative
• You are: curious and science-oriented
• You like: science, technology, research,
investigating or studying natural science
• You can be a:
– Economist Physician
– Anthropologist Dentist
– Engineer Physicist
– Production Planner Biologist
– Psychologist Surgeon
– Research or system analyst Chemist
 Artistic
• You are: creative and artistic

• You like: painting, designing, singing, dancing,

writing, reading literature, listening to music
• Job Prospects:
Artist English Teacher
Musician Advertising Executive
Actor Interior Decorator
Interpreter Orchestra Conductor
Singer Reporter
Writer Public Relations Specialist
 Social
• You are: service-oriented

• You like: teaching, helping, counseling

• Job Prospects:
Counselor Social Service Director

Interviewer Teacher

Nurse Training Director

Therapist Recreation Leader

Educational Administrator
 Enterprising
• You are: business-oriented

• You like: selling, persuading, directing, influencing,

supervising, managing a business

• Job Prospects:
Manager Salary Administrator

Broker Market Analyst

Contractor Personnel Recruiter

Salesperson Insurance Underwriter

 Conventional
• You are: highly organized

• You like: maintaining orderly files/records, designing

systematic procedures
• Job Prospects:
Banker Business Teacher
Clerk Financial Expert
Secretary Office Manager
Proofreader Data Processor
Credit Manager
Personality

Your
Personality
Does Personality Matter?

• Yes! Your personality should fit your

career choice!
• Knowing your personality will help you
understand yourself better and will help
you in interacting with others.
What is your Personality
Type?

Let’s find out!

 Energy
Extroverts Introverts

• Outward looking • Inward looking

• Seek interaction with • Prefer to be by
other people themselves
• Likes group activities, • Likes working with
brainstorming, thoughts, ideas,
presentations imagination
 Information
Sensors Intuitives

• Details-oriented • Idea-oriented

• Likes clear • Likes to think big

instructions, plans, • Thinks of theories
timelines • Enjoys hands-on
• Enjoys working with experiments
data
 Decision-making
Thinkers Feelers

• Use facts & figures • Looks at people &

in making a decision circumstances in
• Logic and decision making

consistency • Looks for value in work

• Likes editing others’ • Likes building team

work work
 Learning Style
Judgers Feelers

• Highly structured • Prefers unstructured

• Very organized environments

• Free-flowing
 Skills
• What are your skills?
– Evaluate school, volunteer,
work, or leisure experiences.
 Ski l l s
• What are your skills?
– Make a list of your school activities
(clubs, organizations to which you
belonged).
– Make a list of any volunteer work you
have done (either through social, civic
or religious organizations).
 Ski l l s
Skills you Need
– Communication Skills
– Problem Solving
– Responsibility
– Eagerness to Learn
– Creative Thinking
– People Skills (or Social skills)
– Personal Skills
– Self-management
– Technical Skills
 Ski l l s
How to Develop These Skills
– School

– Social Activities

– Hobbies

– Volunteer Work

– House Chores

– Community Work
 C a r e e r + Ski l l s
• What types of careers fit your
skills and interest?
– Use the Occupational Handbook
below to locate a career.

Occupational
Handbook
 Preparation
• How do you prepare for the career?
 Selecting A School
 The courses you take in high school,
 the grades you make,
 your class rank,
 the results of your standardized tests
 the life experiences you have all play a
part in determining whether or not a
college will admit you.
 Preparation
• How do you prepare for the career?
Find out what characteristics to look for
when selecting a school.
College Religious
Public

Athletics
Private

Trade Academics
School
 Education
• What education is required for
your chosen career?

Education
Requirements
 Sa l a r y
• Explore the salary information at the
Career Journal by clicking the puzzle
piece below.

Salary
Information
 Wo r k W o r l d
• Activities designed to help you
understand how to succeed in the work
world.

Work
World
 Wo r k W o r l d
• It’s important to understand what
the workplace is like.
• Each workplace is different.

• If you know more, you can make

better choices for your future!
 Explore
Ask adults questions about their jobs.
They'll be happy you asked.
 Explore
• Have them tell you what they
enjoy most about their jobs…
and what they enjoy least!
Ask them what skills
someone must possess to be
successful in that occupation.
 Explore
• Find out what high
school and/or college
classes are important
to their field. Ask how
much education is
required for their
career.
 Jobs People Do
• Explore the Jobs People Do at the
site below. Work through
the text on the
left of this
webpage!

Jobs People
Do
 Jobs People Do
• Learn about what people do at
work and how they make our world
a better place.

What Do
They Do?
 C a r e e r C ho i c e s
• Work through units 1-3 at the site below and
find cool careers, income information, and
take the Work Quiz.

Explore
Careers
Wow Careers!

WOW
Careers!