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Career
Career-total sum of life experiences
Aspects of a Career-academics, family/home life, community service, social, job, travel and extracurricular activities
Five Principles
Five Principles-
Focus on the Journey: have a destination and know how to get there
Follow your Heart: pursue a dream
Access your Allies: use friends, family, teachers and neighbours to help you throughout your journey
Change is Constant: be able to adapt to changes in the workplace
Learning is Ongoing: you will learn things everywhere, even outside of school
Job/Occupation/Career
Job-a position of unpaid or paid employment in a single organization and includes specific duties, skills and responsibilities
i.e math teacher
Occupation-a cluster of similar jobs
i.e Teacher-gym teacher, science teacher
Lawyer-criminal lawyer, bankruptcy lawyer, criminal defense lawyer
Career-everything you have done in your life
10 Mythes About Choosing a Career
- Choosing a career is simple
- multi step process involving learning about yourself and the occupations that you are interested in
- involved process
- A career counselor can tell me what occupation to pick
- they can’t tell you what is best for you
- I can’t make a living from a hobby
- you can choose an occupation based on your hobby if you are skilled enough in it
- I should choose a career from a “Best Careers” list
- just because they say the job is good, doesn’t mean that it is the job for them
- Making a lot of money will make me happy
- money doesn’t lead to job satisfaction
- Once I choose a career I’ll be stuck in it forever
- you can change your career if you are unsatisfied with it
- If I change careers my skills will go to waste
- you can take skills learned from one job to another
- If my best friend (or sister, brother, uncle, or neighbour) is happy in a particular field, I will be too
- everyone is different and what works with one person might not work with another
9. All I have to do is pick an occupation... things will fall into place after that
- after you pick an occupation you still need to actually get a job
10. There’s very little I can do to learn about an occupation without actually working in it
- you can also explore an occupation by reading print resources or online as well as by interviewing someone in the field
Trends
Characteristics
-lasts for a number of years
-represents significant change
-leads to new opportunities
-impact workplace
4 Trend Categories
Changes in the workplace-
Old | New |
-company loyalty -grade 12 education -9-5 hours -traditional jobs most appealing | -flexible hours -non-traditional jobs most appealing |
Globalization-
-an economic trend toward international trade and competition due to increased communications
i.e large corporation with a branch in another country
Technology-
-a pattern or tendency in the overall society relating to technological changes or development
-every era has experienced technological changes
-i.e computers, internet, and green technology
Demographics-
-changes of patterns in human population
i.e rising number of seniors
Megatrend- over 20 years
Future Jobs-in the future since there will be a lot of older people there will be more services that they require such as:
-healthcare
-cleaning services
-pet care
-personal services
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