Career Development

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Career Development

• Life time process involving growth and experience

• In relation to transition--
• Must be based on student strengths, needs,
  preferences and interests
• Must be sure that students have experiences to be
  able to identify preferences interests
• ADA has increased options

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Factors Contributing to Unemployment for Persons
with Disabilities

• Discrimination
• All aspects of life
• Practical difficulties
• Transportation
• Communication
• Limited access to hidden job market
• Employers presumptions toward qualified applicants

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Outcomes

• Twice as likely to drop out of school
• Difficulties in independent living/relationship
  building
• Less likely to enter into postsecondary education
• Low wages
• High rates of unemployment (whether they graduate
  or not)

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Stages of Career Development

• Career preparation
• Career decision making and skills acquisition by
  identifying specific interests and aptitudes
• Career assimilation
• Postschool movement into training/community
  settings
• Case study A Case Study B

• Career awareness
• Awareness of work how the will fit into a work
  oriented society
• Career exploration
• Explore interests and abilities in relation to
  interests and abilities including hands-on
  experiences

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Career Development

• Career Development Definition
• lifelong process of getting ready to choose,
  choosing, and typically continuing to make
  choices from occupations in our society (Brown
  Books, 1984)

• Combination of all life roles---
• child, student, volunteer, worker, person of
  leisure, parent, teacher, mentor
• ----that a person will assume at various stages
  of life (Wolffe, 1997)

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Career Development Theories

• Occupational Choice
• Assumes that a person will make one choice in
  early adulthood and remain in that career across
  his or her lifetime
• Work Adjustment
• Focuses on the work processes and tasks
  themselves and is slightly broader in its
  examination of related variable in a particular
  work setting
• Career Development
• Broadest in viewing multiple work and life factors

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Developmental Theories

• Lifespan divided into stages
• Occupational choice as one aspect of persons
  life
• Career development--result of lifelong variables
• Super--implementation of self-concepts that
  unfold across a lifetime (multiple roles)

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Developmental Theory

• Theory would view person as assuming multiple
  life roles
• Movement toward career maturity

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MN Work Adjustment Theory

• Developed by Voc Rehab the U of M
• Focus on work behavior work adjustment rather
  than occupational choice
• Focus on work personality
• Needs the worker expects to have filled
• Specific abilities to perform required duties
• Analysis of work place
• Satisfaction (work conditions) Satisfactoriness
  (meeting the work sites requirements)
• Case Studies (p. 96 97)

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Self-Determination Subcompetencies

• Identifying physical psychological needs
• Identify interests and abilities
• Identify emotions
• Demonstrate Knowledge of physical self

• Express feelings of self worth
• Describe others perception of self
• Accept give praise
• Develop confidence in oneself