Objective 5.01  Competency 5.00: Create a career plan that leads to the achievement of career goals.  Objective 5.01: Understand the decision-making process as a component of career planning.  Essential Question: What are my educational and career decisions?

Vocabulary - Objective 5.01 Attainable: To achieve especially by effort. Career ladder: A sequence or related jobs – from entry-level to advanced – available at different education/training levels. Career plan: A list of steps including activities, work experience, and education/training needed to reach a career goal; step-by-step plan of action including career information influenced by the ultimate career goal Compromise: Something that combines qualities or elements of different things; to give up something to reach a decision. Consequences: Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition; the relation of a result to its cause. Culture: Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group. Decision: A choice or judgment; helps to meet goals; the question that needs to be answered in the decision making process.

Vocabulary (continued)  Decision making process: The process of choosing between two or more alternatives or options; most logical way to make a decision.  Decision making style: The typical manner in which a person makes a decision.  Environment: The circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded.  Evaluation: Comparing and contrasting sets of data to rank them and make a choice to develop a plan.  Flextime: A schedule that allows workers to choose work hours that fit their particular needs.  Human resource: That skill, knowledge, experience, and/or time that a person has inside himself or herself that can be used to help reach a goal.  Impulsive decision: Choices you make quickly.  Intuitive: Using a hunch to help make a decision.

Essential Question  What are my educational and career decisions?  Assignment:  #1: Write down 2 educational decisions you will have to make (within the next 3- 4 years). (college, major, career, etc.)  #2: Write down 2 career decisions someone you know has had to make (it needs to be only one person). (example, moved because of better pay)

Types of Decisions  1. Importance  a. Routine  b. Major  2. Categories  a. Personal  b. Work  c. Career  d. Consumer  e. Lifestyle

Decision Making Styles  1. Agonizer  2. Mystic  3. Fatalist  4. Evader  5. Plunger  6. Submissive  7. Planner

Which one are you?  1. Agonizer (Spends a lot of time making decisions)  2. Mystic (Makes decision based on intuition)  3. Fatalist (Feels that he/she has no control over decisions)  4. Evader (“ostrich style” – Ignores the decision)  5. Plunger (Makes “impulsive” decisions)  6. Submissive (Lets an authority figure make a decision)  7. Planner (Thoughtful decision maker – Makes decisions using the Decision Making Process)

The Decision Making Process

1. Determine Needs/Wants

2. Analyze Personal Resources

3. Identify Career Choices

4. Gather Information

5. Evaluate Options/Make a Decision

6. Plan to Reach Your Goal

The Decision Making Process  1. Determine needs/wants.  2. Analyze personal resources.  3. Identify your choices.  4. Gather information.  5. Evaluate options  6. Make a decision  7. Plan to reach goals

Benefits (of using the Decision Making Process)  1. Increases chance of reaching personal and career goals.  2. Increases opportunity to gain related knowledge and experience.  3. Increases chance of personal satisfaction/fulfillment  4. Affirms the difference between a series of jobs versus the career development process.  5. Can easily recognize the need to redirect goals as needed.  6. Provides a direct course of action for reaching personal and career goals.

Question…  Give me a few examples of dangers of making decisions without using the decision making process.

The importance of the Career Development Process in making career decisions.  1. Steps of the career development cycle.  a. Awareness  b. Exploration  c. Planning

Career decision-making  a. Determine needs/wants.  1). Options for career  2). Options for educational experiences

Personal Resources  1). Time  2). Money  3). Material  4). Information  5). Facilities  6). People

Gather Information  1). Self information  a.) Lifestyle goals  b.) Personality  c.) Family/Marriage  d.) Roles  e.) Structure for living  1.) Geographic location  2.) Rural vs. urban  3.) Housing  4.) Neighborhood  f.) Preference for meeting educational requirements

Career Information  a.) Environment  b.) Education/training requirements  c.) Salary (benefits)  d.) Work values  e.) Duties (responsibilities)  f.) Aptitude (skill, ability) requirements  g.) Career outlook  h.) Working schedule  i.) Lifestyle goals  j.) Interests  k.) Values

Evaluate options/make a decision  1). Options for career  2). Options for education - College/training - program/major

Examples?  Understand the importance of flexibility and contingency (incident, possibility, emergency) planning.  What are some examples?

Factors that affect decision making  1. Personal priorities  a. Lifestyle considerations  b. Health  c. Relationships  d. Family upbringing  e. Resources – assets, funds, property, wealth  f. Education  g. Religion  2. Culture  3. Beliefs – idea, thinking, way of life  4. Values – moral, ethics  5. Biases/Stereotypes  6. Environment  a. Home  b. School  c. Community

The impact of education, work, and family on career decision-making  1. Trade-offs/Compromises  2. Impact of Education a. Pre-requisite acquisition b. Financial aid c. Location of programs d. Time  3. Impact of Work a. Overtime hours b. Schedule c. Travel d. Benefits e. Location

Continued… Impact of Family  a. Family work history  b. Influence of parents on career development  c. Family issues impacted by career decisions 1.) Childcare 2.) Eldercare  d. Impact of family friendly programs 1.) On-site childcare 2.) On-site services (banking, uniforms, etc.) 3.) Schedule a.) Flex time b.) Job sharing c.) Telecommuting 4.) Flexible spending accounts 5.) Counseling/Employee assistance program e. Stay at home vs. working parents f. Family Medical Leave Act

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Individual Writing Assignment  Identify the trade-offs/compromises in various situations and discuss. More than 125 words! Being a stay at home mom/dad. Living in one county and working in another. (commuting) Working at home. Working shift work.

Group Activity  Divide into groups of 3-4 students.  Plan and present a decision-making skit depicting someone making a major decision using one of the various decision-making styles.  As a class, try to identify the style of decision making being demonstrated.  Discuss the possible consequences/benefits of each method.

Symbols  Analyze the various decision- making styles through choosing a symbol or graphic representing each style. Use the symbols to create a bulletin board/visual display for educating peers about the importance of decision making.

Family Job Tree Essay  Draw your family job tree and write a one page essay.  Your essay can either be handwritten using ink or word processed with a computer.  The essay should answer the following question: In what ways do you think your family history of jobs/careers might affect your career choices?

Journal Entry  Imagine you have just won $10,000 in a contest. You can buy anything you want with the money. Using each step in the decision-making process, write a summary explaining your purchases.