MAKING DECISIONS

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MAKING DECISIONS

• Careers Chapter 3

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Decisions, Decisions

• Decision choosing between two or more
  possibilities
• Anytime you have more than one choice
• Career decision One of the most important
  decisions you will ever make in your life.

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• How do you make only one choice?
• Making decisions is part of knowing yourself
• More you know about interests and personality,
  easier decisions become
• Why bother learning to make decisions better
• Many people are unhappy
• Didnt plan just fell into a job
• Decisions you make now effect the decisions you
  will make all your life

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The Decision Making Process

• Method you follow when you make a decision or
  choice
• Series of steps that lead you to a decision
• 7 steps
• Define what you need or want
• Needs things you must have to survive
• Wants things youd like to have
• Look carefully at your resources (everything you
  have available to get what you want any skill
  or advantage you have).
• Identify your choices
• Gather information on all your choices
• Advantage and disadvantage of each
• Effect each choice has on you

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• Evaluate and compare your choices
• Evaluate judge the value or worth of something
• Make your decision
• Make a plan to get started
• Plan a method for achieving something

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Applying the decision-making process to careers

• Its never too early to make a career decision
• Tentative the best decision you can decide on
  at a certain time, which can be changed later as
  you learn more.
• Planning and decision-making activities
• Education level needed hs, associate degree (2
  yrs.), 4 years of college, masters degree, etc.
• Classes needed in high school
• Seven tips about making better career decisions
• 1.Other people will pressure you to do what they
  want you to do
• 2.Dont be afraid of failure

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• 3. Pay attention to the decisions you make every
  day.
• 4. Remember that decisions have both good and bad
  outcomes.
• 5. Accept the outcome
• 6. Remember, you can change decisions