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Discovering Employment Themes: A Practical Guide to Career Exploration and Development

This lesson explores the concept of “themes” in employment, emphasizing the importance of personal interests and negotiation skills. Aimed at community engagement, it highlights broad categories of work opportunities and encourages the identification of general employment themes, allowing individuals to explore diverse job openings. Participants will develop personal employment themes, conduct informational interviews, and assess workplace interactions to uncover talents and interests, ultimately enhancing career adaptability and success.

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Discovering Employment Themes: A Practical Guide to Career Exploration and Development

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  1. CE Lesson 3 Stage 3 Vocational Themes* * Trademark of Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC

  2. “Themes”*Discovery Staging Record

  3. What Themes* Are NOT! • Job Descriptions • Business/Self-employment ideas • Compatible with job openings • Transferrable skills • Easy to apply without imagination!! Job Descriptions Businesses Job Openings

  4. What Themes* ARE • Broad categories of employment opportunities • Themes allow for weaving together several aspects of diverse employment opportunities as they apply to the person, community employers, and the environment • Follow me!

  5. Defining Values and Concepts • There are unlimited number of ways to make a living in the world • Jobs are created by profits (or probability of profit) • Personal negotiation skills play a significant role in employment development • CE differs from traditional employment approaches in that it relies exclusively upon the concept of community participation, community contribution and social capital Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC

  6. CE Turns on the Discovery of Personal Genius and: • People have value in the workplace • Highlight personal genius in the workplace • Negotiate work situations which allow people to utilize their own personal genius in the workplace • Determine broad Personal Employment Themes for employment derivation flexibility Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC

  7. Name That “Theme”

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  12. CE Exercise#1“Themes” • Develop 3 employment themes for a fellow group member • Employment themes must be very general in order to establish a large “umbrella” of employment possibilities • Examples: • Transportation rather than airplanes • Communications rather than television

  13. Identify 3 places for each “Theme” where people with similar “Themes” work: • Theme #1 • 3 places • Theme #2 • 3 places • Theme #3 • 3 places

  14. Select 2 places (for each “Theme”) and arrange Informational Interviews • 6 places in total • Make sure to name the person responsible and the dates of the site interviews • Take notes concerning the person’s interaction in the culture, specific areas of interest, shared values or attributes, employer questions, and jobseeker questions

  15. Which “Themes” Seem to Be theStrongest? • Strongest “Themes” require further exploration: • Arrange next level informational interviews and/or short work experiences to extend “Theme” • Person responsible, by this date information noted • Report to investigate reaction of work culture rank and file to the person, her interaction with them, task analysis, if appropriate, and the person’s reaction to the experience

  16. During Exploration • Were any new and stronger “Themes”, interests or talents revealed? • How to pursue these new areas in the same venue or a new venue that more fully utilizes the interest/talent?

  17. Lesson 3Goals to Be Accomplished • List and be able to report results of all “Theme” exercises

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