The document provides instructions for creating a PowerPoint presentation about identifying one's ideal career. It involves completing 7 steps: 1) identifying values and goals, 2) special knowledge, 3) preferred work environments, 4) ideal working conditions, 5) desired responsibility level and salary, 6) preferred geographic location, and 7) career choice. Students are instructed to include title, intro, and closing slides and to add animations, clipart, and transitions. They should also print handouts. The document provides guidance and examples for completing each step.

1. PowerPoint Project
Microsoft Office Intro
Ms. Erdmann

2.  Like a flower, you will flourish in some job
environments and wither in others.
 The flower diagram of yourself is to help you
identify what kind of work environment you
will flourish in, and thus where you will do
your best work.
 Your goals should be to be as happy you can
be at your job, while at the same time doing
your most effective work.

3. Step 1- values-
goals-purposes:
1.
2.
Step 6- 3. Step 2- special
geography: 4. knowledges:
1. 5. 1.
2. 6. 2.
Favorite
3. 3.
Transferable Skills:
4. 4.
1st ____________
5. 5.
2nd ____________
3rd ____________
Step 5- level of 4th ____________ Step 3- people
responsibility and 5th ____________ environments:
salary: 6th ____________ 1.
1. 2.
2. Step 4: working 3.
3. conditions: 4.
4. 1. 5.
5. 2.
3.
4.
5.

4.  Identify Transferable Skills
 Step 1: Favorite Values
 Step 2: Favorite Special Knowledges
 Step 3: Favorite People-Environments
 Step 4: Favorite Working Conditions
 Step 5: Level of Responsibility
 Step 6: Favorite Geography
 Step 7: Your Career Choice

5.  Create a PowerPoint with all 7 Steps to
describe yourself and the job of your
dreams.
 Include a Title Slide, Introductory Slide, the
7 Steps, and a Closing Slide.
 Put in animations, clipart, and slide
transitions.
 Print handouts, 3 per page. Do not print if
you do not know how to print handouts!!

6. How do you want to be remembered?
 Served or helped others  Influenced people
 Mastered a skill  Fixed something broken
 Great listener  Began a new project
 Good decision maker  Was a good decision
 Worked to bring beauty to maker
world  Brought people closer to
 Developed or built God
something  Develop or build
 Able to acquire possessions something
or money  Able to acquire
 Began a new project or possessions or money
business  Began a new project or
 Improved something, made business
it better  Was in the spotlight
gained recognition.

7.  KNOWLEDGE OR SUBJECT SKILLS-Nouns
 Computers—digital design—dance—math—language—
drawing—fashion—tools—plants—animals
 FUNCTIONAL OR TRANSFERABLE SKILLS-Verbs
 Cooking—analyzing—planning—mentoring—gathering
info—inventing—organizing—problem solving—
adapting—evaluating—retrieving info
 SELF MANAGING SKILLS/TRAITS-Adjectives or
Adverbs
 Systematic—thorough—calm—persistent— creative—
resourceful—accurate—cooperative—dependable—
realistic—self-motivated—unique
Think of your life story…when you gained skills
Divide into: Physical, Mental, or Interpersonal Skills

8.  How do you deal with time and
promptness?
 How do you deal with people and
emotions?
 How do you deal with authority and being
told what to do?
 How do you deal with supervision and
being told how to do?
 How do you deal with crises or problems?
Traits describe how you perform your transferable skills…

9.  Accurate  Economical  Persistent
 Achievement-oriented  Effective  Practical
 Adaptable  Energetic  Professional
 Adept  Enthusiastic  Protective
 Adventurous  Exceptional  Punctual
 Alert  Expert  Quick
 Appreciative  Firm  Rational
 Assertive  Flexible  Realistic
 Calm  Fun-loving  Reliable
 Cautious  Impulsive  Resourceful
 Charismatic  Independent  Responsible
 Competent  Innovative  Self-motivated
 Consistent  Knowledgeable  Self-reliant
 Cooperative  Loyal  Sensitive
 Courageous  Open-minded  Strong
 Creative  Outgoing  Supportive
 Decisive  Outstanding  Thorough
 Deliberate  Patient  Unique
 Discreet  Perceptive  Versatile

10.  Studied in H.S.  Learned on Job
 Computers  Operate machines
 Spanish  Computer graphics
 Psychology  Vehicle Repair
 Wood  Learned in free time
 Learned @home  Camping
 History  Landscaping
 Gardening  Electrical
 Childcare  Sewing
 Cooking  Collecting
 Make-up/hair

11.  Subjects  People Problems
 Studied in high school  What problems or
 Learned@home needs do you like to
 Learned on job help people with?
 Clothing, food, housin
 Learned in free time
g, languages, personal
 Things,
Tools, or services, family and
Products consumer
economics, auto/retai
 Do you love to deal with l
handle, construct, opera sales, medicine/healt
te, market, or repair: h, physical
 Bicycles, clothing, comp fitness, child
uters, gardens, machine development, enterta
s, phones, toys, trains, inment, training, ani
planes, wood mals or plants

12.  Realistic  Investigative
R=like I= curious, like to
nature, athletics, or investigate or analyze
tools and machinery
 Artistic data or people or how
things work
A=
artistic, imaginative, an
d creative
 Social  Enterprising
S=bent on trying to E=start up projects or
help, teach, or serve organizations, and/or
people. be upfront as to
 Conventional entertain, influence, pe
C= detailed work, and like rsuade, or sell to people
to complete tasks or
projects

13. Under what circumstances do you do your most effective work?
 Distasteful working  Keys to my
conditions effectiveness
 Too noisy  Some noise, but not too
 Too much supervision quiet
 No windows  Moderate amount of
 Working at 6 am supervision
 Working at night  Outdoors part of the day
 Work from 9-5 am
 Earn commission
 No people around  Steady paycheck
 With sick people  People around sometimes
 Healthy people

14.  At
what level  What salary would
would you like to you like to be
work? aiming for?
 Boss, CEO, Owner  Minimum, barely
 Manager getting by
 Head of a team  Maximum
 Member of a team  Figure out expenses
 Work with a partner
from budget and
how much you need
 Works alone as an
to make to survive
employee or
consultant

15.  Adventure  Chance to exercise
 Challenge leadership
 Respect  Chance to be
 Influence
creative
 Chance to make
 Popularity
decisions
 Fame
 Chance to use my
 Power
expertise
 Intellectual
 Chance to help
stimulation others

16.  Where would you like to live and work, if you had a
choice (besides where you are now)?
 Geographical Factors important to you
 Compile a list of positive and negatives of places you’ve
lived in or visited in the past and where you live now.
 Google the city of your choice’s Chamber of Commerce
to find out more information.
 Include a picture of the place on your slide.

17. Take two career assessments and report results
 Myers-Briggs- http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
 Holland Code-
http://www.roguecc.edu/Counseling/HollandCodes/test.asp
 Career Test- http://123test.com/career-test/ (15 PICTURE
Questions)
 Keirsey Temperament Sorter-
http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/instruments2.aspx
 Self assessment on Coin3.com (40 Questions)
 User: Student ID#, PW: dob (052894), Site id: CA15275
 Take an IQ Test- http://www.123test.com/iq-test/ (10 Questions)
 Research careers on Coin3 or Occupational Outlook Handbook
 Pick A Career!!
 Include a picture of the career on this slide.