Career Planning Skills

Today we practiced writing down Smart Goals for different celebrities and then you wrote down your own Smart Goals. What do you think the benefits are of writing your Smart Goals down? Was the assignment helpful to you? Also, did it help you to visualize Smart Goals for someone else before writing your own?

Section III: Occupational Exploration

Now that you've researched the career that seems to suit you well, you have become somewhat of an expert in understanding all the aspects of that particular occupation. Pretend a friend of yours thought they might be interested in pursuing the same career. What would you say are the pros and cons of choosing that particular field?

The Self-Exploration Process

This morning you have had time to consider what things you have done, things you like, identifying your skills and things you are good at. Please reflect on your team activities and the answers you wrote down on your handouts and post about what you feel are your strongest skills and what skills you would like to improve on. These are some of the things that you will be taking into consideration when we start working with you on your career and educational planning worksheets next week.

Cultural Awareness Reflection

Today we learned a lot about the job histories in our lives, classmates and famous people. We also explored the types of jobs available in our area. Write about the part(s) of these lessons you found to be most interesting and why.

Introduction to career awareness

Now that you have had time to learn about each other's job experiences and to look through the classified section of different newspapers, post about which job(s) looked most interesting to you and why?