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