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Chapter 11

DO NOW:

■ Why do people work?

■ What jobs do you have? Your friends have?

■ What jobs do your parents have?

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Chapter 12

T/P/S: Brainstorming

■ What careers are considered professionals? Why?

■ What careers are considered service jobs? Why?

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Choosing Your Career

1.1 Jobs and Careers

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Chapter 14

Lesson 1.1 Jobs and Careers

GOALS/Agenda■ Discuss career and job categories.■ Activity: Career Survey

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Chapter 15

Job Analysis

■ A job analysis is an evaluation of the positive and negative attributes of a given type of work.

■ This is what helps you decide what job is a good fit for you!!

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Chapter 16

Title and salary

Skills, education,and experience

Positive features Negative features

Job Analysis Form

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Chapter 17

OOH Job Description Categories

■ Management■ Professional■ Service■ Sales■ Administrative■ Farming

■ Construction■ Installation■ Production■ Transportation ■ Armed Forces

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Chapter 18

Positive Features of Employment■ Salary is the amount of

monthly or annual pay that you will earn for your labor.

■ Benefits are company-provided supplements to salary (sick pay, vacation time, health insurance).

■ Opportunity for promotion is the ability to advance to positions of greater responsibility and higher pay.

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Chapter 19

Negative Features of Employment

■ Employee expenses: costs of working paid by the employee that are NOT reimbursed by the employer.

■ Examples: costs of parking and transportation (gasoline or bus fare).

■ Work characteristics: daily activities of the job and the environment in which they must be performed.

■ Examples: working indoors vs. outdoors, working alone vs. working on a team, having a high or low degree of stress.

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Your Task■Step One - Go to: http://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

■Step Two: Take quiz and record your interest inventory.

■Step Three: Take information to OOHwww.bls.gov/ooh■Step Four: Complete Job Analysis

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Closure:

■ What are two pros and two cons of your profession?

■ HW: Outline 2.1

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Do Now

■ How can people find out about job opportunities?

■ How can a person build up their work history?

Agenda: -Notes on 2.2-Job Analysis (poster creation)Closure: Share/presentationsHow can we start preparing for our career now? (networking, programs, clubs/course)

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Sources of Job Opportunities■Word of mouth from personal contacts.

■Contact- Member of your network, family member, or former work associate.

■School counseling and placement services■Public and private employment agencies

(EX- Temp agencies)■Newspaper, the Internet

(Career Builder, Indeed, Monster.com)

-Also- sites like LinkedIn for networking!

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Gaining experience and contacts…

■Job shadowing- spending a morning or afternoon with a worker in the type of job that interests you.

■Placement Centers- Assist students in making career choices. Can help get students part-time or full-time work.

Cooperative education: students attend classes and complete work or a field experience.

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Public and Private Employment Agencies

-Employment agencies: help job seekers find a job for which they are qualified.

-A headhunter: type of employment agency that seeks out highly qualified people to fill important positions for an employer.

-Temporary agency or “temp agency”: provides part- or full-time temporary job placement.

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Building up a work history…

■A careful search can land you a job you will enjoy for many years.

■Your work history is a record of the jobs you have held and how long you stayed with each employer.

■Employers will evaluate your work history when you apply for a job.

■Take time to do what is necessary to find the job that is the right fit for you

■Networking, contacts■Experience, skills■Courses, programs

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Job Analysis Poster

Requirements:-Job title and brief description-Average Salary-Education and experience required(degree, programs, courses, etc)

-Skills needed to perform occupation-One picture or representation of the job**A few sentences on HOW you can buildup your work history

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Chapter 118

Entrepreneurship■ An entrepreneur is someone who

organizes, manages, and assumes the ownership risks of a new business.

■ Opportunities for business ownership ■ Continue a family business■ Purchase an existing business or franchise■ Start a new business from scratch■ EXAMPLES?!?!?!

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■ Entrepreneur or not?

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Activity

■ Research■ Find images■ Create■ Brief Paragraph description

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Closure:

With a partner:■Come up with a list of pros and cons of owning your own business?

■Would this be something you would want to do?

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Chapter 122

Advantages of Owning Your Own Business

■ Make the decisions■ Be your own boss ■ Feel in control of

your own future ■ Keep the profits■ Is anyone interested

in opening their own business? What type?

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Chapter 123

Disadvantages of Owning Your Own Business

■ Large investment of planning and money

■ High risk of failure■ Statistics show that most (75 %)

new small businesses do not succeed.

■ Two most common reasons for failure:

■ Lack of financing & Lack of skills