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Integrating Your Learning, Work, and Leisure: Decision-Making and Options Knowledge

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This chapter explores the interconnectedness of education, career, and leisure in our lives, emphasizing how to blend these aspects effectively. It introduces key concepts like options knowledge and self-knowledge as foundations for career decision-making. Essential resources and strategies for researching occupations, educational options, and leisure activities are discussed. This guide aims to improve your understanding of how to navigate these domains and make informed life choices that align with your personal and professional goals.

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Integrating Your Learning, Work, and Leisure: Decision-Making and Options Knowledge

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  1. Chapter 3 Knowing About My Options

  2. EXECUTIVE PROCESSING DOMAIN META-COGNITION DECISION-MAKING SKILLS DOMAINS CASVE KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS OPTIONS KNOWLEDGE SELF- KNOWLEDGE Pyramid of Information Processing

  3. Connecting Occupations, Education, and Leisure • Many believe these are three separate areas of life: school, career, retirement • They are becoming more interconnected • Blended throughout our lives • How are you blending learning, working, and playing into your life right now? • How will you do it in 20 years? • Consider all three areas of options knowledge

  4. Options Knowledge • Must connect to self knowledge • Forms the foundation of career decision making • Complex nature of options knowledge • Options knowledge is “out there” • Research skills needed • Labor market and occupational information • Govt. reports, websites, books, journals, etc. • Find, organize, and evaluate information

  5. Knowledge about Occupations • Occupation: group of similar jobs found in different organizations • Number of occupations • Schema: a meaningful way to categorize • Occupations are changing • Information is fluid and dynamic

  6. Sources of Information • O*NET • US Dept. of Labor • Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) • NAICS

  7. Other Sources of Occupational Information • Internet • Private Publishers • Trade & Professional Associations

  8. Career Information Delivery Systems (CIDS) • Florida – Choices® Planner • www.flchoices.org • eDiscover® • www.act.org/discover/login. • Sigi3® • www.career.fsu.edu/sigi

  9. Knowing About Educational Options • Departments andmajors • Connections between majors & occupations • Versatile vs. specific majors • Pros and cons of pursuing higher degrees • Should decide based on self knowledge

  10. Non-College Training Options • Vocational education • Apprenticeships • Continuing education • Military training

  11. Compare and Contrast • Accreditation • Designated by professional association to a training program • Ranking • Reputational analysis based on opinions of deans and faculty • Certification • Given to an individual after completeing a specified training program • Licensure • Provided by a governmental agency

  12. Knowledge About Leisure

  13. What is Leisure? • Desirable or wasteful? • History: Greeks vs.

  14. The Role of Leisure Activities • Complimentary • Supplementary • Compensatory

  15. Leisure Classifications • Overs, Taylor, & Adkins • Leisure Activities Finder (LAF) • Uses Holland Codes

  16. Sources of Leisure Information • Clubs/organizations • Magazines, newsletters, books • Newspapers/yellow pages • Internet • Resorts/recreation centers • Leisure counselors

  17. Improving occupational, educational, and leisure knowledge

  18. Thinking Better about Options • Develop a schema • Avoid being overly rigid or loose • Learn strategies for making distinctions • Increase the complexity of your thinking • Beware of bias, stereotypes, inaccuracies

  19. Apply your research skills Use different methods: Be a critical reader Invest the time Get help from a counselor or librarian Improving Information about Options read listen observe write talk visit

  20. Food for Thought • If you spend 86,000 hours in jobs (working for 43 years, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year), and you spend 100 hours in this course studying and researchinginformation related to your options, it would only be about 1/1000 of the time you will spend in those jobs. • Thoughts about this?

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