1. Career Awareness and Interest Inventory Leonard Middle School Career Portals in Business 2015-2016

2. Objectives To encourage you to begin thinking about career choices/goals, and make good decisions about high school coursework Complete an Interest Inventory to help identify your high interest areas Explore careers that match your high interest areas – the selected careers do NOT have to be the only careers you explore

3. Career Bound – Future Found Your Future is Now! Interests & Skills What do I like and dislike? (Interests) What do I do well? (Skills) Life After High School There are a lot of “where’s” – apprenticeships, career/technical schools, employment, military opportunities, colleges and universities. It’s important to choose a “where” that fits you. Academic Plan (Classes) All good roads to your future go through high school. 1.Who Am I? 2. Where do I want to go? 3. How will I get there?

4. Vocational Technical School Junior college High School University (graduate) University (Doctorate) University (Undergraduate) Professional School Military Middle School

5. What is an interest inventory self assessment tool used in career planning assesses one's likes and dislikes of a variety of activities, objects, and types of persons The theory behind interest inventories: people in the same career (and satisfied in that career) have similar interests

6. World of Work Instructions For each item, answer the question: L = You would like to do that ? = You do not know if you would like to do that D = You would dislike doing that. Complete the entire inventory, then input your results in Twiducate.

7. World of Work

9. Next step Research careers. Make sure to review Description – What does a person do on this job? Training- How much education is needed on this job? Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities – What do you need to be able to do? Tasks – What will you have to do on the job? Work Values – What values are important? Labor Market – What does the job market look like? Will there be lots of jobs?

10. Using your Information Once you know the education requirements of your selected career, you can choose courses in high school that will help you achieve that goal Begin exploring other ways you can increase the skills needed for your selected career Talk to people already working in your selected career