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CAREER~LIFE~WORK
PLANNING
Horry-Georgetown Technical College
Career Services, Counseling & Placement
JUSTIFICATION
“The
reality is that people will seek jobs in an economy that will require
virtually all workers to think flexibly and creatively as only an elite
few were required, and educated to do in the past.” Carnegie
Council on Adolescent Development.
A career is more than just a job, or working, or one’s occupation.
Generally, it is one’s progress through life, one’s growth and
development in vocational and avocation areas of life. The average
35-year-old has changed jobs between six and seven times since they
began working. Many of these changes are caused by worker
dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction in a career is mostly a result of
unawareness of the many factors that affect occupational
happiness. Awareness involves understanding that, you, as a
consumer of a career, have choices about the outcome of your life and
your occupation. The secret is to identify those occupations in
which you have a high probability for success and happiness.
Because human beings are complex, each of us has his/her own
aspirations, goals, potential for development and limitations.
Therefore, Career~Life~Work Planning outcomes must be unique, and have
considered variables such as family, religion, leisure, retirement
options, finances, etc. This will ensure greater chances of
success in productivity in all aspects of life.
PURPOSE AND GOALS
Career~Life~Work Planning is a
life-long process. You can avoid joining the ranks of people who
are dissatisfied with their work by making a conscious effort to assess
yourself. Assessment of one’s self involves exploring values,
interests, and capabilities; understanding opportunities available in
the world of work; and developing, evaluating and implementing career
and life plans. Our goal at Horry-Georgetown Technical College,
using Career~Life~Work Planning, is to help you begin this journey of
developing the know-how to be able to help yourself to a more fulfilling
life and career.
The goals of Career/Life/Work Planning
are to help students:
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Become pro-active about the career/life planning
process.
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Identify and evaluate interests, values,
abilities, and personality type, as they relate to career
decision-making.
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Gather and analyze pertinent information about
career fields.
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Develop and begin implementation of personal
career/life/work plan.
FORMAT
Career~Life~Work Planning counseling sessions will
meet for one hour each week for five weeks. Activities will
include completion of career-oriented assessment instruments;
face-to-face interpretation, activities and discussions; and on-your-own
exercises.
First Session: Introduction to the process
of career/life/work planning. Overview and instruction of the
assessment instruments chosen for student, which will be taken home,
completed, and returned before the next session.
Second Session: Interpretation of completed career assessments.
Exploration of the concept of interests, values, abilities and
personality type, as it relates to career/life planning.
Third Session: Continuation of Interpretation.
Develop individual career/life/work plan with student. Discussion
of long/short-term goal setting, and CLWP as a life-long process.
Exercise: Individual CLWP.
Fourth
Session: Gather and analyze pertinent information about career
fields. Introduce informational interviewing procedures and
research career fields on Discover (Counselor will provide an
introduction to Discover – it is basically an on-your-own exercise.)
Pro-active exercise for the next session: Informational Interview
Guide.
Fifth
Session: Homework exercise discussion.
Introduction of resume writing and interview techniques, or college
selection, uniquely designed using personal assessments. Closure.
MATERIALS/FEES
Handouts and worksheets will be supplied by the Counseling Center.
The Counseling Center Career Resource library will be available for
individual use. Each student will receive a packet of assessment
materials. A $10.00 fee is charged for HGTC students and a $50.00
fee is charged for non-HGTC students to partially offset the cost of
purchasing and scoring the assessment instruments. This fee
must be paid to the business office prior to the first session.
You may pick up a registration form in the Career Services, Counseling &
Placement Office.
CAREER~LIFE~WORK PLANNING
Horry-Georgetown Technical College
Career Services, Counseling & Placement
Planning Outline per Session
Meeting One
Introduction and Distribution of Assessment Instruments
1. Introduce Concept of
Career/Life/Work Planning
2. Introduction of
Session Format(s)
3. Explanation of
assessment instruments
What is an assessment?
Discuss time involved with each
Review individually
4. Complete Caps portion
of COPES system
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Assessments must be turned in before second session! –
Meeting Two
1. Interpretation of
completed career assessments
Explore concept of interests, values, abilities, personality type,
as they relate to career choice
2. Give hand-outs
relating to assessment interpretation.
Meeting Three
1. Continuation
of Interpretation
2. Develop Individual CLWP with student,
including short and long-term goals. Use Informational
Interview guide or use your own.
3.
Discussion of CLWP as a life-long process.
Meeting Four
1. Gather and
analyze pertinent information about career fields
(Career Resource Room, Internet, Inf. Int., Library, Newspapers, etc.)
2.
Introduce informational interviewing procedures and research career
fields on Discover.
3. Assign pro-active exercise: Informational Interview, using guide
and worksheet for investigating a career.
Meeting Five
1.
Information Interview discussion.
2. Introduction of Resume Writing and Interview Skills and
college selection using personal career assessments.
3. Closure.
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