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Do you understand yourself in
comparison to a career's requirements?
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Have you weighed the risks involved in each career
option?
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What is your decision making style?
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Career and employment decision making is a highly personal process. It involves
the integration of one’s academic background and desires, psychological and
external needs, work history and community, or family involvement with labor
market trends. Before you leap into a career, make sure you have taken the time
to evaluate yourself, your situation and researched career information thoroughly.
Making career decisions is exciting and beneficial in promoting personal happiness
and satisfaction. It can be a life decision that adds tremendously to one’s
purpose in life, or it can be a lifelong growth process, changing and evolving
with time. Today most people will make several career decisions and hold numerous
jobs with several companies, institutions or firms. The opportunities are enormous!
"Putting the Career Decision Pieces
Together"
Directions: Below is a list of questions
that you may find helpful in determining the essential factors that effect your
specific career decision. Print this
page or write in the spaces provided.
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Why are you making this career
decision? Have your priorities changed? Do you want to change jobs?
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Who or what circumstances are
influencing your decisions (i.e., physical, psychological, monetary,
parental, family, health, capabilities)?
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What is important for you to
pursue at this point in your life? What are your most important values?
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What do you want to accomplish
through career planning?
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What
type of environment or work circumstances would provide you with a satisfying
work life?
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What parts of your personality
are important to be expressed often in your work environment (i.e. imaginative,
energetic, persuasiveness, gentleness, decisiveness, explorer, etc.)?
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What adaptive strengths and marketable
skills can you rely on in the workplace?
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What role do you want to play
in your work environment (i.e., leadership, supportive, entrepreneur,
team orientation, independent)?
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What specific time frame do you
have for carrying out your career decisions?
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Are there some short-term skill
areas you could immediately improve? If so, how?
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Consider these preliminary questions and others in evaluating your career options.
The next step in the process includes a diagram to further help you "put the pieces together." This will
assist you in analyzing and comparing what you personally need from work against
the requirements of various job choices.
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