Career Development
UNIT 4: HOW DO I GET WHERE I WANT TO
GO?
How Do I Get Where I Want to Go?
 Feedback:
 Tyler: Drive
 Kyle: Where the streets are made of gold let me tell you how to
get there because thats where I want to go
 Megan: Believe in yourself
 Jordan: Self-motivation, Set goals, Hard work, determination
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Kelsey: On-da 12 elan.
Kyra: My Dreams
Ryan: Walk
Dylan: Conga line………….. Follow the path you pave for
yourself
How do I get where I Want to Go: Overview
 Career planning holds the possibility of many new
experiences, people and challenges.
 These new experiences can be scary, but it is
important to explore many opportunities to find
happiness
Making Good Decisions
 Making good decisions can be challenging in a
changing world
 How do you set goals?
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Jot down some words that relate to the idea of goal setting for
your career.
Motivation
 Skills
 Organization
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Determination
Interests
Cooperative
Adaptability
Planning
Education
Balanced Decision Making
 Remember logical thinking and intuition from Unit 1
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Good job Megan…. Cheater….
 To make a balanced decision it is often beneficial to
follow a decision making model.
 The decision making model has five steps
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Setting Goals
Gaining Knowledge
Analyzing options
Planning
Reflection
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For a more detailed graphic on how logical thinking and intuition
work go to page 171-172
Redefining Goals
 Up to this point we have used a very broad definition
of what a goal is
 We will need to have a more concrete definition, or
set of definitions.
 Different types of goals
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Personal Goals: Goals concerning yourself, your family,
friends, and other people you consider important
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To leave Newfoundland….  To stay in Newfoundland… 
Work Goals: Goals concerning your job or career.
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To establish a life long, satisfying, enjoyable, lovely career where it
doesn’t even feel like I’m going to work in the morning.
Different kinds of goals ctd.
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Learning Goals: Goals concerning school, or out of school
achievement.
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Graduate high school on the honour roll.
Community Goals: Goals concerning contributions to your
community, and what you can receive from contribution to
your community.
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Volunteering, helping others, creating a good environment.
Different Kinds of Goals
 It is also helpful to think of goals in terms of their
duration
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Short-Term Goals: Things you want to accomplish next week
or next month
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Medium-Term Goals: Things you want to do in the future three
months to a year.
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Do my Biology homework
Raise my mark in World Geography
Long-Term Goals: Things you want to do in the next ten years.
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Go to college and get a certificate in digital video editing because
that’s what's important to me… not writing notes…. Watching
videos…..
Four Keys to Practical Goals
 Measurable: So you can see your progress.
 Achievable: So you can take each step with
confidence.
 Concrete: so it is clear what you will do.
 Scheduled: So it is clear when you will do each task.
Setting My Own Goals
 When setting your own goals it is important to match
them to your own characteristics and needs
 It is also important to make sure that your goal
statements include the four keys to practical goals
 Four Keys to Practical Goals
 Measurable
 Achievable
 Concrete
 Scheduled
Section 2: Making Good Plans
 Plan: An outline of a course of action designed to
achieve a series of goals.
 Achieving goals often requires making an organized
plan that will help you get to where you want to go.
 How will you become what you want to be?
 What is your goal?
 Do you have a plan?
Creating a Plan of Action
 Starting Out
 In creating a Three-Year Plan you need to start thinking about
what you want to achieve.
 Good planning means you do what needs to be done
 When goal are achieved you have the freedom to be
spontaneous and free of worry
Planning Questions
 Planning questions help you achieve your goals
 After answering the questions review and reconsider the plan.
 If you are flexible then changes should be easy to make
 Planning questions?
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What goal do I want to achieve?
What tasks need to be done?
What steps do I need to take?
What do I need to learn in order to take those steps?
Who could help me do what needs to be done?
What possible obstacles or barriers could get in the way?
What are the Timelines? Dates?
Do I need to change the list of tasks due to answers to 3,4 and 5?
If in a group:
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9. Who is responsible for each task?
10. How will we communicate with each other?
Barriers
 Barrier: Anything that gets in the way of your career
goals and plans.
 Examples of Barriers:
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Shyness, lack of money, having children early, personal injury,
fear, location, people (Dylan),
 If you are flexible and able to plan to meet your
barriers many of them can be conquored.
Planning My Education
 Graduation Requirements: A list of achievements
including kind and number of courses completed that a
person needs to earn a senior high graduation diploma.
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You received this list in grade nine.
 In planning your education you need to think about your
life after school.
 In forming your three year plan you need to consider
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What do I want to do after high school?
Do I want to go to university?
 Do I want to go to college?
 Do I want to make it on my own?
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Part 3: Using Good Tools And Strategies
 The Job Market:
 Open and Hidden
Open Job Market: those emploument positions that are
advertised.
 This is only 15% of all jobs!!
 Hidden Job Market: Jobs that are never advertised but are usually
filled through word of mouth.
 THIS IS HOW 85% OF JOBS ARE FILLED!!!!!
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The Four Stages of a Job Opening
 First Stage: No opening, but good managers are
always looking for good people
 Second Stage: Managers are beginning to think they
need someone but have not done
anything about it.
 Third Stage: Job opening exists. The company starts
looking for people through word of
mouth.
 Fourth Stage: An ad is placed to try to fill the
position.
Finding Summer and Part-Time Work
 The Job Market for Young People
 Most summer jobs for young people never get advertised
85%........
 This means you need to take a aggressive approach to finding your
own part time or summer employment
 You will need to NETWORK!!!
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 Networking: The process of connecting with other
people, often for the purpose of information
exchange and support, when searching for work or
advancing or changing career.
Why Networks Work!
 “It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know?
 Who you know can often get you through the door
 But your education, skills and experience have to fit the job
you are trying to get.
 By networking you develop a large group of people who can
help you get into many different areas.
 NETWORKING IS EXTREMLY IMPORTANT
Applying for a Job
 Some practical advice:
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Read the advertisement thoroughly and take note of
details
Ask people who may know about the job for details
Research the employer
Make sure you know who to send the resume to, call to
get correct spelling of the name
Network, use your contacts to help you
See how well your qualifications match the position,
even if its not a perfect match you may get the job.
Filling Out the Application Form
 Important things to do:
 Follow the instructions: if you can take it home to fill out do so
 Be careful and thorough: Follow directions make sure you
write neatly, use a black pen.
 Never leave a blank space: Use N/A to answer questions that
do not apply to you
 Provide your full name
 Be specific
 Be neat
 Be Clear
 Double check
References
 References: The name of the person who will vouch
for someone else’s character, job performance, and
record. On an application form a reference is a name
with a telephone number that the employer can
contact to ask about the potential employee.
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People you can use a references
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Teachers, principals, coaches, volunteer supervisors, previous
employers.
You should keep at least three current references.
Telephoning
 It is important to call employers to check on the
status of the job you are applying for
The Resume
 Resume: A personal information document that outlines
experience, education, credentials, and references.
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Two types of resume:
 Chronological Resume: A resume that groups
education, work, and volunteer experiences into lists in
reverse chronological order (Starting with most recent
 Functional Resume: Resume that highlights special
skills, awards, and achievements to target a specific
job.
 Different jobs require different resumes, you will make
many resumes in your lifetime
The Cover Letter
 Cover Letter: A letter an applicant writes in response to a
job opening. It outlines interests in and qualifications for
the position; accompanies a resume
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Short
Personal
Focused
Researched
Interesting
A request for action
Perfect
Appealing to the eye.
Essential Skills
 Essential Skills: Skills that provide a foundation for learning all
other skills.
 These skills are useful tools to highlight on resumes.
 HRDC sites 9 important essential skills:
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Reading Text
Document Use
Numeracy
Writing
Oral Communication
Working with others
Thinking Skills
Computer Use
Continuous learning.
 These skills show employers that you can be an asset in any
company
The Interview
 Job Interview: A meeting between an employer and a
prospective employee in which the employer hopes
to learn more about the suitability of the candidate.
 Interviews can make people nervous and
uncomfortable.
 Practice can often help people overcome these
feelings.
Tips for Interviews
 Here are some tips for taking interviews.
 Research the company.
 Know what employability skills and experience you offer
 Write down questions that might be asked
 Prepare some questions for the interviewer
 Prepare a portfolio to take with you
Extra copies of resume
 List of references, and letters of reference
 School transcripts and certificates
 Pen and notepad
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Plan and write down what you will wear
Be early