Jobs, Careers

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Jobs, Careers Education
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Objectives

• To understand the benefits of preparing early for
  a career
• To relate skills learned in school to skills
  applied in the work force
• To prepare for a career by considering
  alternative post-high school options
• To understand different lifestyles and cultures
• To realize personal interests and strengths
• To understand leisure and why it is necessary
• To recognize stereotypes
• To comprehend the impact of the economy
• To identify different career choices and
  various industries

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Educational Choices Skills

• Skills learned in school and extra-curricular
  activities relate to skills needed in the work
  force
• writing skills
• computer skills
• mathematical skills
• research skills
• team-work skills
• competitive skills

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Skills Training for the Workplace

• Employees may have to retrain or upgrade their
  skills in the following situations
• promotions
• new technology adopted by the company
• change in computer
  network, system or
  programs
• additional work added to
  an existing job

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Lifestyles

• Lifestyles? the way of life or conditions in
  which a person lives reflects a persons values,
  morals, financial situation and/or culture
• Can be determined by considering the following
• socioeconomic status? involving both social and
  economic factors some people live paycheck to
  paycheck while some are wealthy enough to never
  have to work

Work YOU
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Stereotypes and Gender Bias

• Glass ceiling? an unacknowledged discriminatory
  barrier which prevents women and minorities from
  rising to positions of power or responsibility,
  as within a corporation
• Can be based on several different characteristic
  of a person, such as
• gender
• age
• race
• education
• geographic or nationality
• physical attributes, such as hair or fitness

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Careers

• white-collar? describes a job relating to workers
  whose work usually does not involve manual labor
  and who are often expected to dress with a degree
  of formality, such as a professor or banker
• full-time? employed for or involving a standard
  number of hours of working time