1. Chapter 2 Self Awareness
Who are You?
Values, Interests, Abilities

2. Values
Value – personal views or ideas that a person feels are important.
Health, Happiness, Wealth, Honesty
Value – rules you make for yourself and you want to live by them
Doing good in school, study, good behavior, no drugs (smoking, alcohol or other drugs)
Value – personal standard by which one lives

3. Life Values – Things that are important in your life such as family values and social values.
Good morals, lots of friends
Work Values – Represent what is important in work such as the money you earn, job security, and your work environment.

4. Listen to your own values
Learned many of them from your parents
Give you direction
Make you feel comfortable with your choices
Values affect career choices
Money – important for you to earn a lot of money?
Independence – work for yourself, make your own decisions
Security – regular salary
Education – curious, like to continue to learn, professional job
Being creative – give up security for creativity, need to create
Making changes in your community--cleaner, less crime
Regular schedule – same hours versus shifts
Being Recognized – famous
Putting Personal life ahead of job – stay close to family versus not enough time with family, too tired to do things with family
Being a leader – be the boss instead of taking orders, someone else make decisions and take responsibility

5. Conflict of Values – When you have one or more values that you can’t satisfy at the same time
Ex. – friends ask you to go some place your parents don’t want you to go
Family values conflict with social values
Interests
Hobby: photography – famous photographer
Fix bicycles – airplane mechanic
Getting paid for what you like to do
Best thing that can happen to you

6. Discovering your interests
Interest – positive feeling you have about something; what you like to do; something you enjoy doing or thinking about
Search inside yourself – fun, unwrap your skills
What do you like to watch or read:
Tv – police, animals, science, teachers
Books – hospitals, private detectives, boating
Movies – foreign countries, westerns
Magazines – race cars, woodworking, computers

7. What are your hobbies and dreams? Interest Inventories
What classes do you like? Which ones do you not have to worry about your grade?
What are your hobbies and dreams?
Interest Inventories
Interest inventory – a questionnaire that helps people to determine what their interests are
(Kuder inventory)
How to avoid a boring job
Choose a career in which you are interested
Find out what doesn’t interest you.

8. Discovering your Aptitudes
Aptitudes and Skills
Aptitude – potential or ability for learning new skills (natural ability to learn a skill more easily than others)
Ability – a skill that has been developed
Skills – abilities to do things
Discovering your Aptitudes
Grades are indication
Outside of school – singing, dancing, electronics
Family and friends – teacher, guidance counselor
Tests, Exercises

9. General – ability to learn; intelligence; understand instructions, facts, reasons, make good judgments
Verbal – understand meanings of words and ideas
Numerical – perform arithmetic operation easily and accurately (handout)
Spatial – ability to see how objects in flat picture would look like in 3 dimensions (handout)
Form perception – ability to notice detail in objects; see difference in shapes and shading of figures. (handout)

10. Clerical perception – observe detail and recognize errors in numbers, spelling, punctuation (handout)
Finger dexterity – ability to move the fingers to work with small objects rapidly or accurately
Manual dexterity – ability to move hands easily and skillfully
Motor coordination – coordinate eyes and hands or figures rapidly or accurately (assembling parts)
Hand-eye-feet-coordination – move hands and feet together when a signal indicates response needed.
Color discrimination – ability to see likenesses or differences in color or shades (match and select colors)

11. Discovering Your Skills
Not born with them but can learn
Skateboard, computer, saxophone, sew, shoot baskets, bake, dance, ride a horse, crossword puzzles
Tips to keep in mind about aptitudes and skills
Just because you may not have a certain skill now doesn’t mean you can’t learn to be good at it
Everyone is different; not everyone has the same skills
Just because you are strong in a skill doesn’t mean you don’t have to work at it anymore
Keep trying to learn skills you don’t have: read, write, balance checkbook, measure a room
Most people find it easier to develop skills in things they enjoy doing

12. Special talent TERMS Natural talent (music, art, sports)
Talent – a superior natural ability or skill (gift); still have to work very hard
TERMS
Career Portfolio – collection of information about one’s self
Identity – the personality or activity by which a person is known
Personality – the combination of attitude, values, interests and behaviors that identify a person
Group of traits that make us unique: intelligence, enthusiasm, honesty, happy, pleasant, kind, selfish, critical, jealous, lazy
Understanding your personality helps you choose a career you will like.
Talkative: Salesperson
Supportive: Customer service, health occupations
Having a pleasant personality helps you get jobs and do them well. Others react positively to pleasant personalities. Enjoy working with these people.
Learning style – natural method or way one thinks or learns
Lifestyle – typical way of life
Procrastinator – one who puts off doing thins or making decisions
Self-concept – the way in which a person views their own self-worth