Career Planning Process

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Career Planning Process

• Counseling Career Services
• Clayton College State University

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Why plan your career?

• Tell me a little about yourself?
• What kind of work interests you?
• What do you know about _______?
• How did you decide to get into ___?
• How have you prepared yourself for . . .?
• When are you anticipating that youll be ready
  for a job in _________ field?

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Career Planning Process

• Self Information
• Options Information
• Decision Making
• Planning
• Action

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Learning About Yourself

• Values Clarification
• Personality Traits
• Identifying Interests
• Skills Assessment
• Transferable skills
• Technical skills

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Learning About Yourself - Values

• Achievement
• Advancement
• Adventure
• Altruism
• Aesthetics
• Competition
• Creativity
• Early Entry
• Exhibition
• Fairness
• Friendships at work
• Health
• High Income
• Home and leisure life
• Independence

• Interesting work
• Leadership
• Lifestyle
• Location of work
• Mechanical and physical activity
• Moral and religious concerns
• Outdoor work
• People contact
• Physical appearance
• Predictable work
• Recognition
• Status/prestige
• Variety
• Work environment

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Learning About Yourself - The Party

• Realistic - People with mechanical and athletic
  abilities like working outdoors with tools and
  objects prefer dealing with things rather than
  people.
• Investigative - People with math and science
  abilities like working alone and solving complex
  problems like dealing with ideas rather than
  people or things.
• Artistic - People with artistic ability and
  imagination enjoy creating original work like
  dealing with ideas rather than things.
• Social - People with social skills interested in
  social relationships and helping others solve
  problems like dealing with people rather than
  things.
• Enterprising - People with leadership and
  speaking abilities like to be influential
  interested in politics and economics like to
  deal with people and ideas rather than things.
• Conventional - People with clerical and math
  ability prefer working indoors and organizing
  things like to deal with words and numbers
  rather than people and ideas.

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Learning About Yourself - Values

• Realistic - Material rewards for tangible
  accomplishments
• Investigative - Development or acquisition of
  knowledge
• Artistic - Creative expression of ideas,
  emotions, or sentiments
• Social - Fostering the welfare of others, social
  service
• Enterprising - Material accomplishment and social
  status
• Conventional - Material or financial
  accomplishment and power in social, business, or
  political arenas

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Learning About Yourself - PersonalityHow you see
yourself . . .

• Realistic
• Practical, conservative, and having manual and
  mechanical skills -- lacking social skills.
• Investigative
• Analytical, intelligent, skeptical and having
  academic talent -- lacking interpersonal skills.
• Artistic
• Open to experience, innovative, intellectual --
  lacking clerical or office skills.

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Learning About Yourself - PersonalityHow you see
yourself . . .

• Social
• Empathic, patient, and having interpersonal
  skills -- lacking mechanical ability.
• Enterprising
• Having sales and persuasive ability -- lacking
  scientific ability.
• Conventional
• Having technical skills in business or production
  -- lacking artistic competencies.

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Learning About Yourself - PersonalityHow others
see you . . .

• Realistic - Normal, frank
• Investigative - Asocial, intellectual
• Artistic - Unconventional, disorderly, creative
• Social - Nurturing, agreeable, extroverted
• Enterprising - Energetic, gregarious
• Conventional - Careful, conforming

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Learning About Yourself - Skills

• Physical and Mechanical Skills
• Thinking and Reasoning Skills
• Creative and Judgement Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Self-Management Skills
• Detail Skills
• Quantitative Skills
• Other

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Learning About Yourself - Transferable Skills

• Communication Skills
• Thinking Skills
• Human Relations Skills
• Valuing Skills
• Research Skills
• Interviewing Skills
• Planning Skills

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Researching Your Options

• Research possible majors and careers
• Counseling Career Services
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)
• Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
• Georgia Career Information System (GCIS)

OOH -- stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm GCIS --
www.usg.edu/ga-easy/
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Deciding and Planning Acting

• Making and implementing your decision
• Gaining the necessary skills
• Gaining the education
• Gaining experience through
• Volunteer work
• School projects
• Internships
• Jobs

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Marketing Yourself to Employers

• Write professional resumes and cover letters
• Plan your interviewing wardrobe
• Brush up on interviewing skills
• Network
• Set up interviews
• STAY MOTIVATED

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Connecting Students to Employers

• Employment Opportunities
• PT and FT job announcements in Job Library and
  Career Connections web account
• Email Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
• Employment-related announcements
• On-campus recruitment
• On-campus interviews

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Connecting Students to Employers

• Employment Opportunities, cont.
• Career Days
• The Career Expo at CCSU
• Career Opportunities
• Part-Time Seasonal Job Fair

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Connecting Students to Employers

• Student Graduate Job Search Assistance
• Resume referral to employers through Career
  Connections
• Web posting of resumes
• Career Connections
• GeorgiaHire.com

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Connecting Students to Employers

• Student Graduate Job Search Assistance
• The Career Achievement Series
• Resumes Cover Letters
• Interviewing Techniques
• Professional Dress
• Resource Library
• Counseling Career Services Web Site
• Internet Job Search
• Atlanta Employers

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Job Connections Professional Organizations

• Accounting
• www.accountingnet.com
• www.accounting.com
• www.accountantschoice.com
• www.aicpa.org

FOR MORE INFO...
American Institute of CPAs Harborside Financial
Center 201 Plaza III Jersey City, NJ 07311-3881
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Job Connections Professional Organizations

• Management (including technical and
  administrative)
• www.managementjobs.com
• www.nationaljob.com/management
• www.usajobs.opm.gov/index.htm
• www.infogoal.com/pmc/pmcjob.htm
• www.jobs-career-com/human

FOR MORE INFO...
Institute of Certified Professional
Managers James Madison University College of
Business Harrisonburg, PA 22807
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Job Connections Professional Organizations

• Marketing
• www.marketingjobs.com
• www.atlant.marketingjobs.com
• www.ama.org
• www.swan.ac.uk/ebms/market/mkjobs.htm

FOR MORE INFO...
American Marketing Association 250 S. Walker
Drive 1101 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite
500 Washington. DC 20005
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FOR MORE INFO VISIT
Counseling Career Services 223 Student
Center 770-961-3518 adminservices.clayton.edu/ccs/