Career and Financial Management

1. Career and Financial Management Exploring Your Interests

2. Objectives • Evaluate ways in which personal and work values can guide career choice • Assess personal interests • Identify aptitudes and abilities and determine how to develop new abilities

3. Lifestyle Goals • The way you want to spend your time, energy, and resources in the future • Imagine your life 5 to 10 years from now What careers would make your lifestyle possible? • Examine yourself and your wants

4. Examining Yourself • Values • Work Values • Interests • Aptitudes and abilities

5. Your Personal Values Values: beliefs and principles that define who you are, shape attitudes and choices, and help set priorities “What things are important to me?”

6. Sample Personal Values Recognition Personal Growth Courage Community Spirituality Values Family Leisure

7. Work Values Work values: Something people want to get out of a job or that brings them job satisfaction • Can be related to personal values

8. Work Values

9. Work Values & Career Choices • Consider careers that match your work values • Will lead to feelings of success because you are achieving something valued

10. The Bottom Line Personal Values Values Work Values Interests Lifestyle Goals Aptitude Ability

11. Examining Yourself • Values • Work Values • Interests • Aptitudes and abilities

12. Your Interests • Interests: things that you like or want to know more about • Usually something you do well • Explore interests to determine school and work plans

13. Areas of Interest The Arts Business Crafts Office Operations Scientific Social

14. The Arts • Activities • Music, painting, writing, entertaining others, visiting museums, reading books • Personality • Creative, independent • Careers • Actor/actress, artist, editor, fashion designer, musician, photographer, radio/TV announcer, reporter

15. Business • Activities • Coming up with new ideas • Personality • Leaders, good salespeople, persuasive • Careers • Bank manager, lawyer, salesperson, business executive

16. Crafts • Activities • Work with tools, build things, interested in mechanical activities, using physical strength • Personality • Enjoy seeing end results of work • Careers • Auto mechanic, cook, electrician, farmer, truck driver

17. Office Operations • Activities • Work with numbers and words, data, facts • Personality • Well organized • Careers • Accountant, administrative assistant, bank teller, computer operator, tax preparer

18. Scientific • Activities • Enjoy math and science, studying, think about ideas • Personality • Curious, creative, work alone • Careers • Architect, biologist, chemical engineer, economist, pharmacist, physician

19. Social • Activities • Help others, provide services • Personality • Good communication skills, get along with others • Careers • Counselor, nurse, police officer, social worker, teacher

20. The Bottom Line The Arts Business Values Crafts Interests Lifestyle Goals Office Operations Aptitude Scientific Ability Social

21. Examining Yourself • Values • Work Values • Interests • Aptitudes and abilities

22. Aptitudes & Abilities • Aptitude: natural talents a person has or the potential for learning a certain skill easily and quickly • Ability: a skill you have already developed • Average person has many different aptitudes and abilities

23. Identifying Aptitudes and Abilities ACTIVITY! • Brainstorm a list of your skills • Ask friends and family members • Create a three-column chart

24. Developing Abilities • Gain experience by getting involved • Join clubs and organizations • Volunteer • Play a sport • Feedback • How well you are performing • Identify what to work on

25. Stages of Ability Development

26. Aptitudes, Abilities, and Career Selection • Aptitude/Ability and interest in an area • Successful in a related career • No aptitude/Ability in an area • At a disadvantage

27. The Bottom Line Values Interests Lifestyle Goals Aptitude Natural Ability Develop