Personal Assessment- the 1st step Examine your personal experiences Who you are right now Current stage of career and life

development Ability to deal with new information

Super’s Self Concept Theory 1. We differ in abilities, interests, and

personalities. 2. Every occupation requires a

characteristic pattern of abilities, interests, and personality traits. Within each occupation are workers with varying degrees of these characteristics.

Super’s Self Concept Theory 3. Each of us is qualified for a number of

occupations. 4. Vocational preferences and skills, the

situations in which we live and work, and our self-concepts change with time and experience. These factors make choice and adjustment a continual process based on our maturity and lifestyle.

Super’s Self Concept Theory 5. Selecting a career involves

the following stages: A. Growth: physical and

emotional as you form attitudes and behaviors.

Super’s Self Concept Theory B. Exploration: Divided into

fantasy, tentative, reality testing.

C. Establishment: work that may have started as “just a job” but offers growth.

Super’s Self Concept Theory D. Maintenance: maintain or

improve our career area. E. Disengagement: before

retirement or when we see no new challenges or chances for mobility.

Super’s Self Concept Theory 6. The nature of any career

pattern is influenced by parental socioeconomic level, mental ability, personality characteristics, and opportunities exposed.

Super’s Self Concept Theory 7. The process of career

development is essentially that of self-concept development and implementation.

Super’s Self Concept Theory 8. Work satisfactions and life

satisfactions depend on the extent to which our work and our life provide adequate outlets for our abilities, interests, personality traits and values.

Job or Career Job- a series of tasks or

activities that are performed within the scope of what we call work. Relate to a career in that a career is a series of jobs.

Job or Career Career:a sequence of attitudes

and behaviors that are associated with work and that relate toward total life experience.

New Employee Contract The expectation that once you

find a job, you are home free, secure, or set for life is no longer realistic.

Follow intuitions and not trends: It is important to give considerable

thought to what you want to do and structure your training and education to be relevant both to your interests and trends in the job market.

Be Prepared to Manage Your Career

Getting to know your self will help you identify careers that are best suited to your personality. People who are not prepared for change allow that change to make decisions for them.

Career Satisfaction

More than 50 percent are dissatisfied with their jobs.

2014 Gallup poll indicates 31.9 percent are engaged with their jobs.

Two-thirds said if they were starting over they would try to get more information about their career options.

Career Satisfaction We are looking, then, not for the one right

career but for the series of alternatives and career options that seem to make sense for each of us given our background, our personality, our career and life stages, and the changing world.

Life Stages 16-22 late adolescence: leaving parents’ world;

independence being established but not stable; unsure of ability to make it in the adult world; open to new ideas.

22-28 provisional adulthood: gaining independence; gathering relevant work skills and setting goals; testing and choosing which to retain. Still proving competence to peers and parents; more self-reliant, building for the future; adjusting to lifestyle preferences.

Life Stages 28-32 the thirties transition: questioning

commitments to traditional marriage in relationships, family and career; reassessments and changes may take place. A particularly vulnerable stage for continuity, although many choose to continue their earlier choices.

Life Stages 32-39 the time of rooting: involved in life decisions;

helping children grow, priority consideration to childbearing; recognizing parental messages; modifying personality; accepting choices; more attention to business matters; establishing reputation -- until about age 35 when the question “Will I have time to do it all?” begins to arise; more awareness of time and the important matter of “What do I really want to be?” May be the first time a woman experiences freedom from childbearing and begins to consider her options.

Life Stages 39-43 turning point years: a period of great

upheaval and midlife crisis; may appear that earlier dreams are not attainable; wondering “Why am I here, where am I going?”; additional lifestyle changes, often not planned; feeling there is something missing in life; possible further thoughts about raising a family; starting or changing a career.

Life Stages 43-50 re-stabilization/bearing fruit: more at

peace with questions of mortality, career and lifestyle transitions; children testing their independence; personal review of child raising patterns; career blossoming; attention to personal growth; activity in community; reevaluating relationship as one’s children become adults.

Life Stages

50-70 renewal: either a time of calm, acceptance and enjoyment of life or new challenges due to an abrupt career change; planning for retirement; energy and strength may decline; spouses/friends die; risk-taking seems less likely to occur; disengaging from concept of work, though some will start a new career at this time; dealing with care of aging parents; possible tension between the wife in the prime of her career after child-rearing and husband eager to retire and start a new phase of life.

Life Stages

70 and up - transition toward retirement: as life is extended and retirement is not mandatory, this period may become the true “golden years” of continued usefulness to society and growth for oneself.

Retirement: ending traditional work patterns; involved with hobbies and other interests; opportunities to increase social and civic activities; enjoying travel, family, and leisure.

Goals

We need to think about career or goals in the sense of their being both short-term and long-term.

Long-term you want to be a lawyer Short-term might be obtaining a job as a

legal secretary or paralegal.

Self-knowledge helps decision making

Know who you are, so that when you are listening, reading, watching, and experiencing, you’ll have a means of processing information through your consciousness, through your personality and preferences, and through your values and skills.

Self-knowledge helps decision-making Eventually, you’ll be able to recognize and

reject information that does not apply to you, and to internalize and add to your career plan information that does.

You then have the distinct advantage of being able to choose training for a career about which you are truly excited and enthusiastic.