Knowing About Myself

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Chapter 2

• Knowing About Myself

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Whats Involved in Career Choice?
Thinking About My Decision Making
Knowing How I Make Decisions
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What do you need to know about yourself to assist
you in your career choices?
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Self-Knowledge

• Values
• Interests
• Skills

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Values

• Definition
• something that is important or desirable to you

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Class Question How many people surveyed reported
that they preferred money over leisure?
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7-Step Values Clarification Process

• Choosing A Value
• Freely and without pressure
• From among alternatives
• After thinking about the results

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7 Step Values Clarification Process (continued)

• Prizing Your Values
• 4. Being pleased with your choices
• 5. Being willing to state publicly
• Acting On Your Values
• 6. Doing something behavioral
• 7. Acting consistently repetitively

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SIGI3 Values

• High income
• Prestige
• Independence
• Helping others

• Security
• Variety
• Leadership
• Leisure

Used by permission of Valpar International
Corporation
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Self-Knowledge

• Interests

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Interests

• Definition
• Those things a person does for fun or enjoys.

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Interest Measurement

• Expressed Interests

• Assessed Interests

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Assessed vs. Expressed

• What do you think is the difference?

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Four Ideas in Hollands Theory

• Most persons can be categorized as one of six
  types.
• There are six kinds of environments.
• People search for environments where they can
  express their skills, abilities, values,
  attitudes, etc.
• Behavior is determined by interaction between
  personality and environment.

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Holland Types

• Realistic
• Investigative
• Artistic
• Social
• Enterprising
• Conventional

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Self-Knowledge

• Skills

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Skills

• Things we can do well
• Behaviors we have
  learned/acquired/developed
• Special talents and abilities

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Identifying Skills

• What Color is Your Parachute? (Bolles, 2008)
• FSU Online Career Portfolio, www.portfolio.fsu.ed
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Nine FSU Portfolio Skills

• Communication
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Leadership
• Life Management

• Research/Project Management
• Social Responsibility
• Teamwork
• Technical/Scientific

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Improving Self-Knowledge

• Thinking better about myself
• Dont over generalize from past experiences
• Dont rely too much on others opinions
• Avoid making decisions while in a crisis
• Make full and thoughtful use of available tools
• Use clear, complete self-knowledge

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Improving Self-Knowledge

• Seek out/acquire varied life experiences
• Process/talk about these experiences
• Connect life experiences and events to one
  another
• View this as a lifelong process