5.01: Understand the decision-making process as a component of career planning.

1. 5.01: Understand the decision-making process as a component of career planning. Career Management

2. The career decision process is:...A process that takes time. • You cannot make a good decision until you have adequate information about yourself and the world of work of self knowledge and information gathering, as well as having experiences that point you in a direction that is right for you.

3. A proactive process. • No one can tell you what you should do, and career decisions will not appear through thin air. • You must take the time and the effort to engage in actions that will help you to make decisions. • You must also be self-reflective about these activities.

4. You cannot just take in information, you must reflect on how this information fits with your own interests, values and skills.

5. Essential Questions • How does my personal decision making style predict the likelihood of me being able to reach personal and career goals? • What are my educational and career decisions? • How can I be sure that I have made sound decisions for career and educational planning? • How have internal and external forces impacted my career and educational decisions? • How am I prepared to make and accept trade-offs as I make career and educational decisions?

6. Web-Site Resources http://www.careertrain.com (Making Choices-Activity) http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_TED.htm (Decision making Techniques - How to Make Better Decisions) http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap13/chap13o.htm (Decision Making and Problem Solving) http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision (Decision Making Articles) http://www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/index2.asp (Career Development Manual Link – Decision Making)

7. Types of Decisions • Categories • Personal • Work • Career • Consumer • Lifestyle • Importance • Routine • Major

8. Compare decision making styles Agonizer (Spends a lot of time making decisions) Mystic (Makes decision based on intuition) Fatalist (Feels that he/she has no control over decisions) Evader (“ostrich style” – Ignores the decision) Plunger (Makes “impulsive” decisions) Submissive (Lets an authority figure make a decision) Planner (Thoughtful decision maker – Makes decisions using the Decision Making Process)

9. Activity • Analyze the various decision-making styles through choosing a symbol or graphic representing each style. • Create in Word • Label each including the definition • Title= CM5.01: Decision-making Styles

10. Steps of the career development cycle. 1. Awareness2. Exploration 3. Planning

11. The Decision Making Process

12. 1. Determine Needs/Wants • Options for career • Options for educational experiences

13. 2. Analyze Personal Resources • Time • Money • Material • Information • Facilities • People

14. 3. Identify Career Choices

15. 4. Gather Information • 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/ability requirements g.) Career outlook h.) Working schedule i.) Lifestyle goals j.) Interests k.) Values

16. 5. Evaluate Options/Make a Decision • Options for career • Options for education - College/training program/major

17. 6. Plan to Reach Your Goal Personal and Career Goals

18. 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. (in Journal) • See Steps on next slide!

19. Decision Making Process • Determine Needs/Wants • Analyze Personal Resources • Identify Career Choices • Gather Information • Evaluate Options/Make a Decision • Plan to Reach Your Goal

20. Benefits of using the decision making process to make personal and career decisions. • Increases chance of reaching personal and career goals. • Increases opportunity to gain related knowledge and experience. • Increases chance of personal satisfaction/fulfillment • Affirms the difference between a series of jobs versus the career development process. • Can easily recognize the need to redirect goals as needed. • Provides a direct course of action for reaching personal and career goals

21. Factors that affect decision making • Personal priorities • Lifestyle considerations • Health • Relationships • Family upbringing • Resources • Education • Religion • Culture • Beliefs • Values • Biases/Stereotypes • Environment • Home • School • Community

22. Journal Entry • Think of a situation when you made a decision only to change your mind at the last minute or later to wish that you could go back and do something different? • Write an essay explaining the decision, outcome and decision making approach used. • Also explain how the situation could have more effectively been handled with thoughtful decision making.

23. Impact of education, work, and family on career decision-making

24. Trade-offs/Compromises An exchange of one thing in return for another, especially relinquishment of one benefit or advantage for another regarded as more desirable "I faced a tradeoff between eating and buying my medicine"

25. Journal Entry • Identify the trade-offs/compromises in various situations • Being a stay at home mom. • Living in one county and working in another. (commuting) • Working at home. • Working shift work. • Discussion

26. Impact of Education • Pre-requisite acquisition •  acquiring: the act of acquiring something • new possession: something that has recently been bought or obtained • skill development: the development of a new skill, practice, or way of doing things"language acquisition" • Pre-requisite is something needed as prior condition: an object, quality, or condition that is required in order for something else to happen • "A degree is a prerequisite for entry into this profession." • Financial aid • Location of programs • Time

27. Impact of Work Overtime hours Schedule Travel Benefits Location

28. Impact of Family • Family work history • Influence of parents on career development • Family issues impacted by career decisions • Childcare • Eldercare • Impact of family friendly programs • On-site childcare • On-site services (banking, uniforms, etc.) • Schedule • Flex time • Job sharing • Telecommuting • 4.) Flexible spending accounts • 5.) Counseling/Employee assistance program • Stay at home vs. working parents • Family Medical Leave Act

29. Class Discussion • For the career of your choice, think of the various decision making “trade-offs” that may have to be made in regards to education, work and family. • Respond to the following prompts: • What trade-offs am I prepared to make in regards to family (marriage, childcare, eldercare, etc.) to pursue the career of my choice? • What trade-offs am I prepared to make in regards to work (schedule, travel, benefits, location, etc.) to pursue the career of my choice? • What trade-offs am I prepared to make in regards to Education (Pre-requisites, financial aid, location, time, etc.) to pursue the career of my choice?

30. Lifeline Exercise We make decisions every day. Some are small, while others have far-reaching ramifications. We make decisions in different ways. Sometimes we spend lots of time thinking and planning decisions, and other times we make “snap” decisions. Handout available

31. Decision-Making Styles – Appendix 5.01 (6) • Assume that high school graduation is coming up shortly. • What are you going to do after graduation? • Explain how someone would use the following decision-making styles to make this decision. • Then identify your decision-making style. • Handout available in netdocs

32. Family Job Tree Essay – Appendix 5.01 (7) • Create your family job tree • Do you see a relationship to your chosen career and the chosen careers of your family?

33. Activity • Complete Appendix 5.01 (9) - My Perfect Job. • As you complete the questions below, imagine yourself in the perfect job. • Handout available

34. Class Discussion/Journal Entry • Rate personal priorities in order of importance • lifestyle considerations • health • relationships • family upbringing • resources • education • religion • Select your top three (3) priorities

35. What kind of decision-maker do you think you are? And WHY?