This document provides information about career guidance, including its objectives, steps, and topics covered. The objectives of career guidance are to help students understand and develop skills for their career path and provide opportunities to understand their competencies, aspirations, and options. The main steps are to learn about yourself, learn about careers, and make a plan. Key topics covered include self-assessment to understand interests, talents, values and goals; exploring career options that match skills; and identifying education and training needs to achieve career goals.
2. • It is an inclusive, developmental program aimed to assist individuals in
making and applying informed educational and occupational choices. A
career guidance and counselling program develops an individual's
capabilities in self-knowledge, educational and occupational exploration,
and career planning
What is career guidance ?
3. Objectives
• To help students and graduates understand and develop the necessary
skills to equip them for whatever career path they choose.
• To provide opportunities for students and graduates to understand their
competencies, aspirations and options through a variety of means,
including personal discussion with professional advisers.
4. 1. Learn about yourself
2. Learn about careers
3.Make a plan
Steps
5. What do you want to be when
you grow up ?
It is never too early to start to start
thinking about the future.
What you are doing in school now will
have an impact in what you do in the
future
1. learn about yourself
Life after high school
6. • What do I like doing? What activity I don’t like ?
• What are my interests?
• What area my interests?
• What values are important to me?
• What is my talent?
• What am I good at?
Who are you
7. • what are my goals?
• What are different jobs that
match my skills?
• What kind of Jobs are available?
What are you going
8. You are mechanical
You like: working with mechanical
or electric equipment; building things using tools.
You can be a
• Engineer Officer
• Architect Craft person
• Forester Fish and game warden
• Pilot
• Military
2. Learn about careers
Realistic
9. • Surgeon
• Psychologist
• Research or system analyst
• Engineer
You can be:
• Chemist
• Economist
• physician
• Dentist
• Physicist
• Biologist
Investigative
You are: curious and science- oriented
You like: science, technology, research investigating or
studying natural science
10. • Interpreter
• Orchestra Conductor
• Advertising Executive
• Public Relations Specialist
• Writer
• Reporter
Career Path
• Artist
• Musician
• Singer
• Actor
• Interior Designer
Artistic
You are: creative and artistic
You like : painting, designing , singing , dancing ,
writing, reading and listening to music
11. • Personal recruiter
• Insurance underwriter
• Salary Administrator
Career Path
• Manager
• Salesperson
• Market analysis
• Broker
• Contractor
Enterprising
You are: business- orientated
You like : Selling, persuading, directing, influencing ,
supervising, managing a business.
12. • Therapist
• Training Director
• Researcher leader
• Educational Administrator
Career Path
• Counselor
• Social service director
• Interviewer
• Teacher
• Nurse
Social
You are : service oriented
You like : teaching helping , counselling
13. • Office manager
• Secretary
• Data Processor
• Creditor Manager
Career Path
• CPA
• Banker
• Business teacher
• Clerk
• Financial Expert
Conventional
You are: Highly organized
You like: maintaining orderly files/ records, designing
systematic procedures
14. • Communication skills
• Problem solving
• Responsibility
• Eagerness to learn
• Creative thinking
• People skills (or social skills)
• Personal Skills
• Self management
Skills you need
15. • It is very important to understand what
What the workplace is like
• Each workplace is unique and different.
• If you work more , you can make better choices
for your future
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