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Part 3 Rest Stop - What Factors Might Affect My Choices?

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    152611
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    Learning Outcomes
    • Apply a decision-making model
    • Demonstrate goal setting skills
    • Communicate realistic career, professional and educational goals

    Reflection on Your Career Research

    Please answer the following prompts with a five-paragraph essay. Devote one paragraph each to numbers 1 and 2 below with supporting details addressing the bullet points then one paragraph each for numbers 3 and 4 below. Finally, end with a conclusion paragraph.

    1. Reflect on your research of the three careers from the Part 2 Rest Stop:

    • Explain what made you choose each career/occupation to research (give your reasoning).
    • Compare your own career priorities with each occupation you are researching using the information obtained from various chapters in your textbook and the assessments.
    • How does each occupation fit with your career priorities?
    • How do you feel about each career after gathering this information?
    • Provide three reasons why or why not each career would fit with you.

    2. Describe how your mindset affects your decision-making process.

    • Are you moving forward using a self-empowering decision-making strategy (planning or intuitive)? Why or why not?
    • Are you using self-victimizing decision-making strategies (impulsive, compliant, delaying, fatalistic, agonizing, paralytic, or defaulting)? How does or would those decision-making strategies impact your career decision now?

    3. What are your next steps? Write a SMART goal for your next steps in your career decision-making.

    4. What is the level of education you want to obtain and how does that affect your decision?

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    Part 3 Rest Stop - What Factors Might Affect My Choices? is shared under a CC BY 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Heather Burns & Elfi Hoskins.

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