1. The Career Planning Process

2. What’s My First Step?
Seinfeld - Costanza ponders about potential jobs

3. Step 1: Self Information
Exploring your values, beliefs, interests, personality and skills

4. Step 2: Identifying Alternatives
What jobs are right for me?
Finding out what careers are available in the current/future market and which ones will complement your “self information”.

5. Step 3: Researching
Finding out specific information about each of the careers. For example: salary, work environment, skills needed, education/training needed.

6. Step 4: Decision Making
Narrowing down your career choices to one or two careers

7. Step 5: Action Planning
Applying for school/courses, making a resume, applying for jobs

8. Employability Skills

9. Hard Employability Skills
These skills are job specific. One may develop these skills through training for a specific area
With your partner, identify a career choice and discuss some example of skills that may be job specific for that career.

10. Hard Employability Skills
Welding
Typing
Metal fabricating
Hairdressing
Chef
Seamstress
Athlete
Pilot

11. Soft Employability Skills
Soft employability skills are transferrable skills
Generic skills, attitudes, & behaviour that employers look for in potential employees.
There are 3 kinds of soft employability skills:

12. Academic Skills Problem solving skills Learning Communication skills
Analytical and Critical thinking
Learning
Communication skills
Manage information
Use number

13. Personal Management Skills
Positive attitude and behaviour
Being responsible
Keeping track of your own progress
Organized
Time management
Being adaptable
Continuously learning
Work Safely

14. Teamwork Skills How well you work with others
Participates in projects and tasks

15. FYI
Employers rate “soft skills” as very desirable when looking to recruit new employees. Excellent communication skills, team-working, creativity, problem-solving, and organizational skills are highly sought after by employers from across all sectors.