Part 1 Rest Stop - Who Am I?
- Demonstrate acceptance of personal responsibility
- Identify personality preferences and interests and match these to educational and career paths
Prepare to Research Careers
- List your results from previous activities and assessments:
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Your top five Values
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- Your MBTI results ______________
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Your top three Multiple Intelligences
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Your three skills most well developed skills
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Your three skills you wish to develop
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- Reflect on what you have learned about yourself so far.
- What personality traits, characteristics or qualities do you possess that you are most proud of?
- What have others told you are your strongest traits, characteristics and qualities?
- What is something for which you have a deep concern or passion? How have you demonstrated that concern or passion so far in your life?
- Please explain a specific example from your life in which you demonstrated personal responsibility to initiate action toward a goal you had/have.
- Reflect on your answers above for both #1 and #2 and decide what is most important to you in your career.
List at least 5-10 career priorities you identified based on your needs, values, preferences, and strength (below are some examples of common career priorities):
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Sample of common career priorities:
- Salary
- Job location
- Job security/stability
- Setting (office, in/outside, hospital, school…)
- Availability of jobs
- Opportunity for advancement
- Interesting work
- Good benefits
- Pleasant work atmosphere
- Value to community
- Variety of tasks/duties involved
- Routine
- Flexibility
- Travel opportunities
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As you start researching careers in Part 2, you want to evaluate each career based on the list of priorities you established to help you quantify which career meets your expectations better.
- Identify careers that are of interest to you.
- What are careers you considered before starting this journey that you are still interested in?
- What careers are you interested in finding out more about based on the assessments and reading you have done so far?
Tip : As you start your research next, look at related careers. This will help you expand your list of career options by identifying careers that have something in common with ones you already are considering.
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