1. Section 5.1 Evaluating Career Choices Back to Table of Contents

2. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN • How to evaluate career possibilities

3. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT After choosing a career that seems right for you, you can begin planning the steps you will take to achieve that goal.

4. KEY TERMS • evaluation • personal career profile form

5. Evaluate Your Choices Evaluation usually involves comparing and contrasting sets of data to rank them and determine winners. Evaluation can also involve weighing possible outcomes. continued

6. Evaluate Your Choices Evaluation can also involve thinking about your choices in light of your values.

7. Evaluate Your Choices A personal career profile form is a chart in which you compare what you have learned about yourself with what you have learned about a career possibility.

8. Evaluate Your Choices In a personal career profile form, you use a 1-to-10 rating system to express how closely your personal and career information match.

9. Evaluate Your Choices Values Does this career match up well with my values? Interests Versus Responsibilities Will the day-to-day responsibilities interest me? Will I be good at them?

10. Evaluate Your Choices Personality Will I be happy with the work environment and hours? Data-People-Things Do the data-people-things requirements match up well with my own preferences?

11. Evaluate Your Choices Skills and Aptitudes Do I have the skills I need for this career—or the aptitudes to develop them?

12. Evaluate Your Choices Education/Training Am I willing to get the education and training necessary for this career?

13. Evaluate Your Choices You should complete a personal career profile form for each career choice you have identified for yourself.

14. Make Your Decision Have confidence in your research and evaluations. Unless you define a goal, you are unlikely to reach it.

15. Make Your Decision Your choice is flexible. Your choice will probably change as your life develops.

16. Graphic Organizer 5.1 Evaluating Possible Careers Consider • Values • Interests vs. • Responsibilities • Personality • Data-People-Things • Skills and Aptitudes • Education and • Training Make Your Decision Compare Ratings Chapter 5 • Developing an Individual Career Plan Succeeding in the World of Work

17. ETHICSin Action Change of Plans Your parents own a flower shop. Because you are an only child, they assume that you will take over the family business. They have offered to pay for your college tuition so that you can earn a management degree that will help you run the shop. continued

18. ETHICSin Action Change of Plans You have decided that you aren’t interested in business and have been taking courses in early childhood education so that you can one day be a teacher. continued

19. ETHICSin Action Change of Plans THINK ABOUT IT How will you tell your parents about your future plans? Do you think you should offer to help pay your tuition now that you have decided to major in education?

20. SECTION 5.1 REVIEW Key Concept Checkpoint Comprehension Your uncle has been urging you to pursue a career as a real estate broker. continued

21. SECTION 5.1 REVIEW Key Concept Checkpoint Comprehension However, you feel you’d prefer working as a sales representative for a sporting goods manufacturer. continued

22. SECTION 5.1 REVIEW Key Concept Checkpoint Comprehension How would you go about evaluating these two career possibilities to see which one might be better for you? continued

23. SECTION 5.1 REVIEW Key Concept Checkpoint Critical Thinking Why is it important to evaluate and determine the career that suits you best?

24. End of Section 5.1 Evaluating Career Choices Back to Table of Contents