CAREERS

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CAREERS

• Lesson 3 Selecting a Career and Finding a Job

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Why do people work?

• Earn Money
• Social Satisfaction
• Positive Feelings
• Prestige
• Personal Development
• Contributions to Health
• Self-Expression

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Career Planning

• One of your most important life decisions.
• The more time you spend on planning the easier it
  will be to find the career of your choice.

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80,000 Hours at work

• 40 Years
• 50 Weeks / Year
• 40 Hours /Week
• 40 X 50 X 40 80,000 Hours

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Factors to Consider

• Standard of Living
• Personal Contact
• Formal Education Required
• Practical Experience Required
• Location of Employment
• Whether you will like or dislike your work
• Working Conditions

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Factors to Consider

• The amount of leisure time available
• Benefits
• Retirement Program
• Health Insurance
• Paid Vacation and Sick Leave

• Your Health and Happiness

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Steps in Choosing a Career

• Consider your interests, abilities and other
  characteristics.
• Narrow the field of jobs.
• Study the requirements of the job.

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Steps in Choosing a Career

• Plan for alternative occupations.
• Prepare a plan for career preparation.
• Be willing to pay the price for success.
• Get working experience.

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Choosing a Job

• How much money youll make.
• How much youll travel and where.
• The type of home youll be able to afford.
• If youll always be supervised by others or
  perhaps be your own boss someday.

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Choosing a Job

• How much leisure time youll have and how youll
  spend it.
• Where in the world youll live.
• Whether youll look forward to steady paydays, an
  uncertain future, commissions, etc.

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Self-Assessment

• The unique qualities of every individual must be
  matched to an occupation that will utilize those
  qualities.

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Finding Your Special Abilities

• Everyone is good at something.
• Do things you do best.
• More successful
• Happier
• More Satisfying

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CRITICAL SKILLS

• Accept Supervision
• Excellent Attendance Record
• Get Along With Co-Worker
• Hardworking
• Get Things Done In A Timely Manner
• Productive
• Punctual

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Occupational Groups

• The Body Workers
• enjoy physical activities and doing things with
  your hands.
• The Data Detail
• use numbers and words in very exact ways.
• The Persuaders
• like to work and talk to people

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Occupational Groups

• The Service Worker
• find job satisfaction in helping others
• The Creative Artist
• express themselves through music, dance, art
• The Investigators
• like to observe, learn, investigate an analyze

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Your Career Search

• Understanding Yourself
• Understanding the World of Work
• Action Steps

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Understanding Yourself

• Who do I admire?
• We tend to imitate those we admire the most by
  our Dress, Talk and Actions

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Understanding Yourself

• What are some of my personal characteristics?
• Some jobs are best suited for certain
  personalities.

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Understanding Yourself

• What do I like to do?
• Work success depends upon how happy we are with
  our job.

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Understanding Yourself

• What can I do?
• Our skills and abilities play an important role
  in career choices.

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The Holland Code

• People and Work environments can be loosely
  classified into six different groups.
• Different people may find different environments
  more to their liking
• Most people and most jobs are some combination of
  two or three of the Holland interest areas.

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Whats Your Code?

• Total up the four worksheets on the total sheet
  and come up with the top 2 or 3 letters in the
  Holland Code

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R is for Realistic

• People who have athletic or mechanical ability,
  prefer to work with objects, machines, tools,
  plants or animal, or to be outdoors.

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I is for Investigative

• People who like to observe, learn, investigate,
  analyze, evaluate, or solve problems.

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A is for Artistic

• People who have artistic, innovating, or
  intuitional abilities, and like to work in
  unstructured situations using their imagination
  and creativity.

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S is for Social

• People who like to work with people to enlighten,
  inform, help, train, or cure them, or are skilled
  with words.

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E is for Enterprising

• People who like to work with people, influencing,
  persuading, performing, or leading or managing
  for organization goals or economic gain.

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C is for Conventional

• People who like to work with data, have clerical,
  or numerical ability, carry out tasks in detail,
  or follow through on others instructions.

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What is considered a good wage?

• 15/ Hour Salary
• 15 X 40 Hours Week 600
• 600 /wk 4 wk 2400 per month

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COST OF LIVING

• Housing 400
• Prop Tax 50
• Utilities 200
• Food 250
• Car 300
• Gas 100
• Health Ins 300
• Clothing 50

• Auto Ins 100
• Household 100
• Cable/Inet 100
• Maint 100
• Furniture 100
• TOTAL 2150

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What do we have left?

• Income 2400
• Expense 2150
• Looks like we have 250 to play with each month.
  But WAIT!!

• Gross Earnings of 2400 is not the same as Net
  Earnings or Take Home Pay.
• Approximate Withholding
• FED Tax 15
• State Tax 5
• FICA 7.5
• Med 2.5
• 30 total or 720 Withheld
• Leaves us with a deficit of 470