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This is a Web site that can help you learn about careers
and about yourself. Before you start
exploring careers, take a moment to explore the CX Toolbar. Try clicking on the tools and check them
out.
Open up a Word document. Save as: Career Planning Guide. As you complete the
following assignment and you are asked to “copy and paste” information,
summarize, or reflect….make sure you put topic headings for each response.
Want
to learn about careers that fit your interests/abilities?
1.
Click
on the Planning Button the toolbar.
2.
Click
on the Career Finder button.
3.
Enter
a name…please do not use your own name.
4.
Answer
the questions for Interest
5.
Answer
the questions for Skills
6.
Copy (Highlight, Control & C) and paste (Control V) your results
into your Career Planning Guide
Your first
results from Career Finder are based on the ways you rated yourself in 14
different interests and skills categories.
Your Top 20 list shows you the
20 careers with interest and skill ratings closest to your responses! You may
want to print the list for future reference. When you click on a career title,
note that the bar graphs show how your interests and skills compare to that
career.
Pick at least three careers
on the list. For each, examine your scores and the scores of the career. In
your Career Planning Guide summarize how they match up. Is this a career
you might be interested in learning more about?
Next learn more about the three career you have chosen to look more closely
at…. just click on the link under the bar graph. You will see an article about
the career, including sources for more information. Read the three articles.
Copy and paste three interesting facts about the three careers that you
have chosen into your Career Planning Guide.
Let's fine tune your search by looking at the 20 careers most closely related to your interests.
Click on the Interest and Skills Fine Tune control and
change it from "Balance Both" to "Favor Interests." The top
few careers on your list may not change, but there should be some changes in
the list. Pick your favorite three careers on the list and record.
Fine-tune
your search again, this time to find the 20 careers most closely related to
your skill factors. Pick your favorite three careers on the list and record.
OK, now it gets really interesting! Restore your Fine Tune control to "Balance Both." Set the Careers to Display to "Top 50."
Look at the 30 new titles. Are there careers listed that you could like more than the ones you have selected so far? If there are, record your three favorite 'new' listed careers.
Now that you have searched in a variety of ways, adjust your interests and
skills scores to what you feel most closely fits you.
Remember, although you may have scored yourself fairly low
on a specific skill, through high school, college or other means of education,
you can develop those skills to a higher level. Interests also change over
time, as you take additional classes and have new experiences.
Click n View Careers. Now, adjust your Careers to Display
list to "Top 10." Remember, the Career Finder only knows 14 things
about you -- you know all of the other things that matter to you but were not
considered.
Now you be the "career finder." Record the Top
10 listed careers in the order they should be in, if the tool knew
everything about you.
ü How did the way you view your interests and skills change from your first search to the last? If they changed, which create a more accurate picture of you -- your interests or your skills?
ü Which list of suggested careers did you prefer -- ones that Favor Interests, ones that Favor Skills or ones that Balance Both? What does your answer tell you about yourself and your career preferences?
ü What is there about you that made you select the Top 10 careers you selected in your final search, Top 10 Thinking? Try to find at least five things your favorite careers have in common.