Careers Unit 1 Study Notes GLC2O1
Topics Covered
Career
Job and Occupation
High Five
Myths
Trends**
SMART Goals
Values
MI
Learning Styles
PDT
Holland’s Code
Career
Your career is you total sum of your life experiences.
Job
A job is a position of paid employment in a single organization that includes specific duties and responsibilities.
Occupation
A group of similar jobs found in various organizations.
High Five
1) Focus on the journey – Focus on your goals and how to get there. – The end justifies the means
2) Follow your heart – Never be afraid of pursuing a dream
3) Access your allies – Seek the advice and help of others when needed
4) Change is constant – Always be ready to adapt to the changing world
5) Learning is ongoing – Never stop learning
Myths
- Be prepared to defend whether you believe some myths about careers are true or not
Trends
*Fad: a popular craze that lasts for a short time*
*Futurists predict emerging trends*
- Characteristics: pattern or tendency in society that lasts a number of years, represent significant change, could lead to new opportunities, and can impact the workplace and our lives
- Megatrend – lasts more than 20 years
- Youth have more choices than parents/grandparents because of quick access to information and better education
- A baby boomer is someone born in 1947 – 1966
- More occupations with service will become available because of the aging baby boomer society
- Service sector of the economy includes knowledge and info-based jobs as well as education and health
- As the knowledge-based economy grows, low skilled jobs will disappear and regular jobs will require more training
- Skills required in an information economy: gather, organize, assess, conclude, and communicate
- Entrepreneur: someone who owns their own business
- More entrepreneurs in the future because of more technology and fields of work
- Changes in the workplace: contract work rather than steady employment, entrepreneurship, multi-tasking, work done in self-pacing terms, lifelong learning/upgrading, small companies offer faster growth (for the individual, not the company), flexible hours, skills increase job security, newer occupations are more appealing, more education, multicultural work force and clients, non-traditional jobs, greener workplace, and more computers and IT
- Essential skills in the future workplace: communication skills, computer technology skills, life-long learning, problem solving, flexibility, adaptability, team player, team leader, preparing for change, keeping up to date with news
- Knowledge will allow us to adapt to new situations and understanding trends will give us more opportunity to find better jobs
- Changes in the Workplace – many changes in how work is done in time and space
- Globalization – an economic trend toward international trade and competition, denationalization of some markets, politics, and legal systems occurs
- Technology – pattern or tendency in the overall society relating to technological changes or developments (faster, stronger, cheaper)
- Demographics – changes in human patterns and population
SMART Goals
- Specific
- Measurable
- Action Plan
- Realistic
- Timeline
Different types of goals: personal, work, learning, and community
Barriers: emotional, physical, knowledge based
Values
- Understand what your top values represent and how they can affect your career
MI
- Verbal/Linguistic – using language to present your feelings or to persuade others
- Logical/Mathematical – reasoning, logical thinking, handling mathematical problems
- Visual/Spatial – creating and interpreting visual images, thinking in three dimensions
- Body/Kinaesthetic – feeling and expressing things physically, doing hands-on work
- Musical/Rhythmic – creating and feeling a rhythm to express a mood, detecting and analyzing musical themes
- Intrapersonal – understanding your own interior thoughts and feelings in a very dear way
- Interpersonal – understanding the feelings, needs, and purposes of others
- Naturalist – understanding nature, seeing patterns in the way nature works, classifying things
Learning Styles
- Kinaesthetic/Tactual Learners – 5% of the population – fine and gross motor skills
- Auditory Learners – 30% of the population – listening, talking, and discussions
- Visual Learners – 65% of the population – reading, seeing, writing, diagrams/visuals
PDT
- People – the way you see yourself working with people and animals
- Data – the way you see yourself working with knowledge and concepts, facts, figures, words, and ideas
- Things – the way you see yourself working with substances and materials, machines, tools, and equipment products
- Understand which you are most comfortable with
Holland’s Code
- Understand your top 3 letters and what each of them mean as well as how they are put together to give you your Holland’s Code
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