1. Career Decision Making
Career Decision Making
Suddhodan Baidya
16 Mar 2011

2. Why do we need to make Career Decision Assessment?
Comparison between 80’s and 2011
One job Vs multiple jobs
Comparison between Asia and Canada
Education Vs Good Job
In 80’s people used to chose their career for life...and it was 100% certain if you are good in your education you will definitely get a good job.
What about now? Can people stay in one career for ever? Can higher education people definitely get a good job?
We dont know what are the occupations there are in the market?

3. Stages of Career Decision Making
Self assessment (Who You Are?)
Exploring career values, motivators, preferences, personal strengths, limitations
Career exploration (What Are There?)
Establishing options, alternatives and plan B’s, information gathering, networking, reality checking
Decision making (What I Do?)
Evaluating options, mapping skills and attributes against actual roles, considering options and preferences, clarifying personal factors, making choices
Plan implementation (When I Do)
Applicant research, CV update and applications, preparing for assessments and interviews

4. Career Decision-Making Style
The Procrastinating Decision Makers - “I’ll deal with it later,” or, “I just can’t decide.” The Intuitive Decision Makers - “I made that decision because it felt like the right thing to do,” or, "I just followed my heart in making this decision.” The Dependent Decision Makers - “What do YOU think I should do?,” or, “What would you do if you were me?”, The Educated Decision Makers - “I need to explore more options before I'm able to make a decision,” or, “I have gone over all the pros and cons and compared them to my other options.” The Recommended Career Decision-Making Style: The Combination Style Educated Decision Making style -Dependent Decision Making -Intuitive Decision-Making style

5. Factors of Career Decision Making
Interest
Values
Skills
Education
Physical Capability
Social and Economical Factor
Salary
Labour Market Information

6. Interests Assessment Holland Codes (Self Directed Search)
Myers Briggs Types Indicator
True Colors
Personality Dimension

7. Values Assessment
Values Cards
Values Questionnaire

8. Skills Assessment Technical Transferrable Self Management Surgical
Artistic
mechanical
Transferrable
Communication
Organizational
Problem solving
leadership
Self Management
Punctuality - Dependability
Motivation - Positive attitude
responsibility

9. Labour Market Information
Association websites
website

10. Education Phd? Masters? Bachelor? Certificate ? High School? Trades?
Engineering?
Science?
Sociology?
Advertising?
Medical?

11. Physical Capability Outdoor Indoor Lift heavy things
Standing up for long hours

12. Social and Economical Factor
Have to take care of kids and family
Religion
Need survival job

13. Dr. John L. Holland, 1919 – 2008

17.
Go to vpl and careercrusing

19. NOC (National Occupational Classification)
APTITUDE
INTERESTS
DATA/INFORMATION, PEOPLE, THINGS
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS

24. Action Plan
Plan A
Plan B

25. Useful websites http://www.self-directed-search.com/

26. Suddhodan Baidya 604-408-7274 ext 2046 Suddhodan.baidya@success.bc.ca