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The seven steps of the decisionmaking process
How to use the decision-making
process to choose a career
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Main Idea
Using a consistent decision-making
process will enable you to make sound
career decisions and other decisions
throughout your life.
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Key Concept
Making Decisions
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Key Term
decision-making process
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Making Decisions
Half of all employed people simply fall
into their jobs.
You do not have to be one of those
people because you can learn to make
good decisions.
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The Decision-Making Process
Your career choice
will be easier if you
follow a decisionmaking process.
decision-making
process
a series of steps that
can help you identify
and evaluate
possibilities and
make a good choice
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Figure 2.1
The Decision-Making Process
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Using the Decision-Making Process
to Choose a Career
You can use the seven-step decisionmaking process to choose a career that
is right for you.
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Step 1: Define Your Needs and Wants
Your Needs and Wants
What are my goals, hopes, dreams?
What kind of lifestyle do I want?
Where do I want to live?
Do I want to work full-time?
How much money do I need for my lifestyle?
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Step 2: Analyze Your Personal
Resources
Your Personal Resources
Values
Interests
Aptitudes
Talents
Personality traits
Learning styles
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Step 3: Identify Your Career Choices
Choosing a career and then changing
your mind is part of the learning
process.
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Step 4: Research Your Career Choices
You should learn more about your
chosen career options before making a
choice.
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Step 5: Evaluate Your Career Choices
Evaluating your career choices means
looking at each career choice and
thinking about whether it matches your
personal needs and resources.
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Step 6 and 7: Make Your Decision and
Plan How to Reach Your Goal
You may have to adapt your original
plan if your goal is unrealistic or
undesirable.
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Section 2.1 After You Read
1. List the seven steps in the
decision-making process.
The seven steps are: define your
needs and wants; analyze your
personal resources; identify your
choices; gather information; evaluate
your choices; make your decision; and
plan how to reach your goal.
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Section 2.1 After You Read
2. Explain how you would use the
seven-step decision-making
process to decide how to spend
$1,000.
Answers should demonstrate, through
relevant and concrete examples,
students’ understanding of the seven
steps in the decision-making model.
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Section 2.1 After You Read
3. Describe how to identify your
career choices.
You can identify your career choices
by considering several possible
careers that match your personal
goals and resources.
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