4 b-earthsoft-career guidance-part 2

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Career Guidance – Part 2

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IndexVisionDecision making & adviceCareer DevelopmentStages of DevelopmentLifestyle InterestsKids have dreamsLife pathExperience as a guideMedia based“Itch” for Occupational AdventureImportant Trends to NoticeTrend Tracking ContinuedThe Big Three Drivers of Change

DifficultiesWorkKeys is a SystemAlready connectedHalf-life of knowledgeFour paradoxical principlesAnd parent should?Traditional approachA shift in paradigmContext of Uncertainty & variablesFactors influencing career pathGuidance Impacts Student SuccessThe Need for Career/Life PlanningImprove quality of career planningAcademic Development Activities

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Decision making & advice



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Stages of Development• Fantasy (4-10)• Interest (11-12)• Capacity (13-14)–forming a own

picture

• Tentative (14-17)• Transition (18-21)• Trial (22-24)-exploring the world of

work

• Trial (24-30)• Advancement (31-44)• Establishing oneself in a work

institution

• Decline (65- ,Preserving what has achieved

• Deceleration (65-70)• Retirement (71-death)



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Identify Life

What are phases of life cycle?

Family

Employment

Identify Self

Schooling


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Lifestyle • While thinking about future, you

must consider what's important to you in your daily life.

• How about a career that requires –Job of your liking & satisfaction?–Amount of money?–The importance & recognition–Growth & knowledge gain–A great deal of travel?



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Work

Life work

Calling

Bliss

Purpose

Mission


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Weaknesses

Knowing yourself

Strengths

Personality

Interest

Talent


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Access your allies

A Changing Theme For Career Development

Keep learning

Follow your heart

Focus on the journey

Change is constant


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Interests

• Keep reviewing at every stage during higher education or while on a job, if you are progressing in right direction keeping interest aligned to education & career!

What are Your

Interests?


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Life path–Education & career Path

Birth Education Job Choice Education

Employment Retirement



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Media based

Joker

Inspector Smuggler Management

Artist

Just Learned..

Doctor



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The most successful people are those who are good at plan B

Failure’s hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you’re successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise, money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

Gems of Wisdom



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Conceptual Age (creators &

empathizers)

What is working

Information Age (knowledge workers)

Managerial Age (White collar jobs)

Industrial Age (factory workers)

Agriculture Age (farmers)


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The Big Three Drivers of Change

• Abundance – Analyse the situation if you see in abundance

• Asia – Becoming a hub, good GDP growth in Asian countries

• Automation – Watch it carefully, would results into better quality at less human efforts & reasonable cost!



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Difficulties

3 Factors prior & in decision making process

• Lack of readiness• Lack of information• Inconsistent information



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Employability : Employment applications,

resumes, appearance, compensation,

21st Century Skills in Workplace Readiness

Policies, performance, leadership, etiquette,

ethics, time management, responsibility

Communication, listening, problem solving, conflict

resolution

Remain updatedTraining, Programming,

Management

Career PlanningExplore data, Decision-

making, Career planning


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Sincere, honest & hard working,

Executor

Job demand of future – Welcome to Internet World

Quick Learner, Expert & efficient

Adapters, flexible to the

situation

Explainers, good

communicators

Collaborators, getting well

along with all


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Execute & review at every milestone

Most important summary

To Decide 3 options, Main and 2

fall-back Plans

Analyse, Map Yourself and

Situation

Know the situation - Explore, Search,

Trend, Compile Data

Know yourselfAbility, Aptitude, Attitude, SkillsInterest, Need


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Be the yin for the yang (paradoxical

parenting)

What Parent should do…

Share their own stories

Provide opportunities

Push for possibilities

Listen & encourage dreams & passions

Of kids


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If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less

Use goals to guide you, not govern youTreat goals as hypothesis

If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself you won’t get noticed, and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much either



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Four paradoxical principles

WHAT IS POSITIVE UNCERTAINTY?TWO ATTITUDES• Accept past, present, and future as uncertain• Be positive about the uncertainty

FOUR FACTORS• What you want• What you know• What you believe• What you do



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Four paradoxical principlesTraditional decision-making strategies• Be focused by setting clear goals• Be aware by collecting relevant facts• Be objective by predicting probable outcomes• Be practical by choosing actions rationallyPositive Uncertainty suggests creative, but rational procedures as modern principles:• Be focused and flexible• Be aware and wary• Be objective and optimistic• Be practical and magical http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-3/positive.htm



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Traditional approach

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• To follow career that of parentsParental

• Jobs offering huge & quicker money• Huge growth potentialMoney

• Jobs which are comfortable• Better environmentComfortable

• Jobs allowing continuous & new learningLearning

• Jobs offering challengesChallenging



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A shift in paradigm

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what’s wrong

what’s missing

a destination



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Context of Uncertainty & variables

Social Context

Family

Personal Identity

Globalisation Education System

Career



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Factors influencing career path

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Guidance Impacts Student Success

Research Supports following• Students earn higher grades• Education prepares them better for the

future• Their schools have a more positive

climate• Have positive relationships with

teachers• They feel safer in school• Counselors spend more time with

students, parents and teachers



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Quick…

Career development is not

One size fits all…

The answer to a test…

session with counselor

A one time thing


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Improve quality of career planning

To help & guide students • Meet personal goals• Transition through the educational system

smoothly and efficiently • Graduate successfully • Become employable with employability skills

and industry certifications• Successfully reach career goals• Take up few more goals• Plan & Enjoy further life



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For better career• Examples at the Elementary Level

– Listening skills– Following/ Choosing a directions– Accepting responsibility– Adjusting to the school environment– Decision making skills– Goal setting– Developing independence– Developing study habits– Learning about middle school



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• Examples at the Secondary Level- Assessing academic strengths- Working on Areas of improvement- Learning styles- Building self reliance- Smart and core curriculum- Learning about high school programs- Evaluating achievement & progress- Curriculum awareness- Data search & Course selection- Planning & Decision making skills

For better career



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