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Chapter 11
DO NOW:
■ Why do people work?
■ What jobs do you have? Your friends have?
■ What jobs do your parents have?
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Chapter 12
T/P/S: Brainstorming
■ What careers are considered professionals? Why?
■ What careers are considered service jobs? Why?
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Chapter
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Choosing Your Career
1.1 Jobs and Careers
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Chapter 14
Lesson 1.1 Jobs and Careers
GOALS/Agenda■ Discuss career and job categories.■ Activity: Career Survey
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Chapter 15
Job Analysis
■ A job analysis is an evaluation of the positive and negative attributes of a given type of work.
■ This is what helps you decide what job is a good fit for you!!
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Chapter 16
Title and salary
Skills, education,and experience
Positive features Negative features
Job Analysis Form
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Chapter 17
OOH Job Description Categories
■ Management■ Professional■ Service■ Sales■ Administrative■ Farming
■ Construction■ Installation■ Production■ Transportation ■ Armed Forces
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Chapter 18
Positive Features of Employment■ Salary is the amount of
monthly or annual pay that you will earn for your labor.
■ Benefits are company-provided supplements to salary (sick pay, vacation time, health insurance).
■ Opportunity for promotion is the ability to advance to positions of greater responsibility and higher pay.
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Chapter 19
Negative Features of Employment
■ Employee expenses: costs of working paid by the employee that are NOT reimbursed by the employer.
■ Examples: costs of parking and transportation (gasoline or bus fare).
■ Work characteristics: daily activities of the job and the environment in which they must be performed.
■ Examples: working indoors vs. outdoors, working alone vs. working on a team, having a high or low degree of stress.
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Your Task■Step One - Go to: http://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip
■Step Two: Take quiz and record your interest inventory.
■Step Three: Take information to OOHwww.bls.gov/ooh■Step Four: Complete Job Analysis
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Closure:
■ What are two pros and two cons of your profession?
■ HW: Outline 2.1
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Do Now
■ How can people find out about job opportunities?
■ How can a person build up their work history?
Agenda: -Notes on 2.2-Job Analysis (poster creation)Closure: Share/presentationsHow can we start preparing for our career now? (networking, programs, clubs/course)
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Sources of Job Opportunities■Word of mouth from personal contacts.
■Contact- Member of your network, family member, or former work associate.
■School counseling and placement services■Public and private employment agencies
(EX- Temp agencies)■Newspaper, the Internet
(Career Builder, Indeed, Monster.com)
-Also- sites like LinkedIn for networking!
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Gaining experience and contacts…
■Job shadowing- spending a morning or afternoon with a worker in the type of job that interests you.
■Placement Centers- Assist students in making career choices. Can help get students part-time or full-time work.
Cooperative education: students attend classes and complete work or a field experience.
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Public and Private Employment Agencies
-Employment agencies: help job seekers find a job for which they are qualified.
-A headhunter: type of employment agency that seeks out highly qualified people to fill important positions for an employer.
-Temporary agency or “temp agency”: provides part- or full-time temporary job placement.
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Building up a work history…
■A careful search can land you a job you will enjoy for many years.
■Your work history is a record of the jobs you have held and how long you stayed with each employer.
■Employers will evaluate your work history when you apply for a job.
■Take time to do what is necessary to find the job that is the right fit for you
■Networking, contacts■Experience, skills■Courses, programs
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Job Analysis Poster
Requirements:-Job title and brief description-Average Salary-Education and experience required(degree, programs, courses, etc)
-Skills needed to perform occupation-One picture or representation of the job**A few sentences on HOW you can buildup your work history
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Chapter 118
Entrepreneurship■ An entrepreneur is someone who
organizes, manages, and assumes the ownership risks of a new business.
■ Opportunities for business ownership ■ Continue a family business■ Purchase an existing business or franchise■ Start a new business from scratch■ EXAMPLES?!?!?!
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■ Entrepreneur or not?
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Activity
■ Research■ Find images■ Create■ Brief Paragraph description
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Closure:
With a partner:■Come up with a list of pros and cons of owning your own business?
■Would this be something you would want to do?
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Chapter 122
Advantages of Owning Your Own Business
■ Make the decisions■ Be your own boss ■ Feel in control of
your own future ■ Keep the profits■ Is anyone interested
in opening their own business? What type?
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Chapter 123
Disadvantages of Owning Your Own Business
■ Large investment of planning and money
■ High risk of failure■ Statistics show that most (75 %)
new small businesses do not succeed.
■ Two most common reasons for failure:
■ Lack of financing & Lack of skills