1. Planning Your Career Lesson 9-2 Goals
Describe factors of a personal assessment for career planning.
Discuss methods for obtaining career experience.
Identify information sources for available jobs.

2. Key Terms Values – Things that are important to you.
Talent – Natural, inborn aptitude to do certain things.
Ability – the quality of being able to perform a mental or physical task.

3. PERSONAL ASSESSMENT
Your planning career should start with a self-assessment of the following:
Interests
Values
Talents and abilities
Provide a basis for your employment goals and possible career paths.

4. PERSONAL ASSESSMENT Values
Can be learned through exercises and activities.
Exercises can show how you rank items such as money, power, achievement, independence, security, belonging, or serving others.
You can begin to look at your values by answering the following questions:
Is it important for me to earn a lot of money?
Am I mainly interested in work that provides a services for others?
Is it important for me to have an occupation that others think is important even if I do not really care for it?
Do I want an occupation that is very challenging and may require additional schooling?
Would I be willing to start in a job that pays a lower salary than another if that job was more challenging and offered better opportunities for future advancement?
Do I consider investing money in education or occupational training as important as spending for other things?

5. PERSONAL ASSESSMENT Talents and abilities
Talent – Natural, inborn aptitude to do certain things.
Ability – the quality of being able to perform a mental or physical task.
You can learn about your abilities through courses you have taken and grades that you have received in school.
Abilities can be developed.
Work to strengthen your weak areas before you go into full-time work.

6. Checkpoint >>
What is the difference between an interest and a talent?

7. Complete Your Personal Assessment
Go to
If you have an account, sign in. If not click Create an Account in the top right corner of the page. Create your account. Write down your username and password and put in a secure area.
Click on Career Exploration at the top of the page. Then on the top middle of the page click Learn About Yourself.
Then click Interest Profiler to figure out what interests you have and match them to careers. Answer the 60 questions about yourself. View your results.
Complete the worksheet.

8. EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Work-study programs
Part-time employment
Volunteer activities
School activities

9. EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Work-study programs
Combines school with work-related experience.
Provides an occasion to develop a variety of on-the-job skills.
You will learn to interact in work settings.
Ex. Internship
Part-time employment
Allows the chance to see if you enjoy a particular career field.
Will help to make contacts.
Contacts will be able to guide you and offer support throughout your working life.
Ex. Summer and part-time work
Volunteer activities
Helps to develop organizational skills while making future career contacts.
School activities
Working on team projects offers a change to interact with others.
School clubs and organizations can results in valuable skills such as goal-setting, planning, supervising, and delegating responsibility.

10. Checkpoint >>
What are methods for obtaining employment experience?

11. SOURCES OF AVAILABLE JOBS
The media
Personal contacts
Business contacts
Career fairs
Government employment offices

12. SOURCES OF AVAILABLE JOBS
The media
Newspaper ads, career web sites
Personal contacts
Let as many people possible know that you are looking for a job.
Ex. School counselors, business teachers, relatives, friends, neighbors.
Business contacts
Visit businesses, use phonebooks, business directories , and websites to find names of organization that may have unadvertised jobs.

13. SOURCES OF AVAILABLE JOBS
Career fairs
Held at schools or community centers.
Allow a chance contact prospective employers
Know something about the company will set you apart from other applicants.
Government employment offices
Help people find jobs and provide career information and work with employers to find qualified workers.
Provide up-to-date information about the job market area.
Ex. Local and state employment offices

14. Checkpoint >>
What are the main sources of information about available jobs?