Its Your Life

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Its Your Life
What are you gonna do with it?
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Its Your Life

• Focus today
• What does a high school student need to do NOW
  to be successful
• later?

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Its Their Life

• Are they ready?
• Most career decision-making is unintentional and
  uninformed.
• 65 of 11th and 12th graders never had a
  one-on-one meeting with their school counselor to
  discuss post-secondary and career opportunities.
• 10 of high school students say they have
  received meaningful career guidance at school.
• 65 of working adults do not believe they are in
  the right job (NCDA/Gallup,
  1999)

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What really happens after high school?

• 60 of high school graduates go to post-secondary
  by the age of 24
• 40 change programs or quit in the first year
• 50 NOT in jobs related to their major two years
  after graduation
• 50 drop out rate after 1st year

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What can we do?

• Encourage experiences
• Be a support system
• Affirm who they are
• Share information

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Its Your Life
What are you gonna do with it?
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Its Your Life

• The average lifetime includes

100,000
hours at work!
Youd Better LOVE what you do!
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100,000hours _at_ work
Gallup Polls indicate 65 of working adults do
not believe they are in the right job.

• (NCDA/Gallup, 1999)

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Life After High School
Where are you in the process of deciding?

• 1. Dont Care I dont want to think about it.
• 2. Unsure Ive given it some thought.
• 3. Curious Im aware of some good career
  choices for me.
• 4. Confident I know all my options

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Education
Is a college degree your only ticket to success?

• Knowledge is power. Education is paramount to
  anything youre going to end up wanting to do.
  The person that knows the knowledge is the person
  that is going to get paid.

How else can youget the knowledge ???
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Options
There are many options after high school

• 2 and 4 year colleges
• Technical Colleges
• Corporate training programs
• Apprenticeship training
• Adult education

• On-the-job training
• Workplace experience
• Intern/Apprenticeship
• Military
• Volunteer/Community Work
• Entrepreneurship
• Self-employment

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Take a look_at_ Yourself

• How do I know where to start?

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Natural Intelligences
Every career requires different skills. One way
to find a career that suits you is to consider

• Bodily/Kinesthetic body smart
• Linguistic word smart
• Logical/Mathematical number smart
• Musical music smart
• Naturalist nature smart
• Interpersonal people smart
• Visual/Spatial picture smart

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Focus on your strengths!The secret to achievement
Ask yourself

• What kind of activities have you loved to do
  since childhood?
• What can you do thats as easy as breathing?
• What sort of thing really excites you?
• Imagine you were famous in your lifetime, what
  would it be for?

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What Interests You?(work should be identical to
play)
Can you identify your top 3 interests?

• Realistic work with your hands, tools, machinery
• Investigative work with ideas with an emphasis
  on the scientific or technical
• Artistic creative self-expression
• Social people-helping occupations (teacher,
  counselor, social, religious)
• Enterprising group leadership, management,
  entrepreneurship
• Conventional emphasize precision and accuracy in
  management of details (accountant, financial
  analyst, secretary)

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Your personality_at_ work

• Which color describes your personality?

Trademarked under name True Colors
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prepare

• How do I

for the future workplace?
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Look to the Future

• How about 3 to 5 radical career shifts in your
  lifetime?

How do you prepare for that?
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Have Skills, will travel

• Your best defense against the futures lack of
  job security is
• Know your best skills
• Get better and better at them
• Reshuffle your skills deck to fit various job
  opportunities (remember 9 to 13 job changes?)
• Consider this yourtransition survival kit!

Marlowe Embree UWMC 2004
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Diversify

• Pick several skills (3 to 5) that are different
  yet related(i.e. web development and teaching)
• Pick skills that represent your natural
  gifts(what were you good at when you were 8
  years old?)

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Think Like an Entrepreneur

• You are not entitled to a paycheck!
• Is your benefit to your employer(as a
  problem-solver, profit-generator, etc.) greater
  than your cost (the paycheck)?
• More simply, what are you offering and why would
  anyone want it?

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Do you have a Plan B ???

• Can you bounce back from hard times?
• Can you see the possibility instead of the threat
  in change?
• Things in life rarely go as planned.
• How many times have you been disappointed but
  things worked out better than you thought?

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Out of bed

• What will get you

in the morning?
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Experience is not what happens to you its what
you do with what happens to you.

• Aldous Huxley

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Balance

• Work is about three things
• Making a Living
• Making a Life
• Making a Difference
• What do those three things mean to you?

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Connections Matter

• because
• You cant do everything(need to swap favors with
  others who are weak where youre strong)
• People hire people they know trust (or who are
  known trusted by people they know trust)
• People who need people are the luckiest people in
  the world.

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Motivators
Choose which two of these things are your most
motivating andleast motivating

• Security Stability
• Technical Competence
• Management Responsibility
• Autonomy (do it your own way)
• Entrepreneurship (run your own show)
• Service to Others
• Pure Challenge
• Lifestyle Balance

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Survive

• Will you

in todayswork world?
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• When we hirewe look for someone committed.
  They have to have a spark for life, they have to
  get on well with everyone and then have the
  education, skills and qualifications.

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Checklist

• Check off the words that describe you
• DEPENDABLE I keep my promises.
• ADAPTABLE I dont freak out when things change.
• PREPARED I show up ready as well as able.
• PROFESSIONAL I look as well as act the part.
• SELF-DIRECTED I get things done on my own.
• POSITIVE I pitch in without complaining.
• CURIOUS I like to learn more about whatever Im
  doing.
• PROUD I am courteous to others.
• AMBITIOUS I work hard to reach my goals.
• ____ Total ?s

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