1. Unit 3 Theme:
Career Crossroads
Objective 3.01
Students will be able to:
Classify strategies for making personal,
education, and job/career choices to
achieve lifestyle goals.

2. Career
Crossroads
PF Objective 3.01: Classify strategies for making
personal, education, and job/career choices to achieve lifestyle goals.

3. Career Crossroads
• How well do you handle
choices?
• Are you good at making
decisions?
• Have you chosen a career
for your future? If
so, what have you
chosen, and why did you
choose it?
• How many times in your
lifetime will you change
careers?

4. What turns will you take?
• This map contains many
roads one may travel to
reach destinations, so
there are many different
directions individual s
may take to do their life’s
work. There will be times
in each persons life when
crossroads will be
reached and one has to
decide which way to go.

5. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
• What strategies can be used
to make personal choices
that lead to achievement of
lifestyle goals?
• What strategies can be used
to make education choices
that lead to achievement of
lifestyle goals?
• What strategies can be used
to make job/career choices
that lead to achievement of
lifestyle goals?

6. Strategies
• Each young person needs to reflect about the
type of lifestyle he/she would like to lead as an
adult and use strategies to make appropriate
personal, education, and job/career choices to
achieve lifestyle goals.
• Strategies for personal choices
• Strategies for education choices
• Strategies for job/career choices

7. Apply
Strategies
to Making
Career
Choices

8. Strategies for Career Choices
• Individual interests
– Consider key questions
when identifying
interests
– Use career interest
inventories
– Research careers in
clusters based on
individual inventory
results
– Match career paths with
personal interests

9. Strategies for Career Choices
• Personality
– Identify personal qualities,
values, and goals
– Choose a career pathway
to match personal qualities
– Develop personal qualities
that employers seek
– Become involved in
informal experiences in
which qualities for success
are learned

10. Strategies for Career
Choices
• Personal priorities and
goals
– Analyze ideals and principles
that are important to you
– Identify types of work that
would make you feel you are
making a difference
– Identify types of work where
you have developed skills
– Identify specific achievements
you want to realize
– Find work that is enjoyable
and challenging

11. Choose an Occupation You
Enjoy!

12. Strategies for Education Choices
• Human capital --- the
complete set of skills
that a person has
acquired
– Invest in your own
human capital to
increase productivity
– Invest in your own
human capital to
increase earnings
What are you doing
now to improve your
human capital?

13. Strategies for Education Choices
Will you attend community
college, college, or a
university program? • Begin planning early for college
How will you make the right • Choose a school that satisfies your
educational decision ? goals and reasons for going to
college
• Consider costs
• Consider your high school record
and performance
• Compare available
college/university choices
• Decide on the size of school in which
you would be most successful
• Decide how close to home you
would like to be
• Investigate options for online
courses

14. Occupational Training Programs
• Specialize in a specific
field of employment
• Consider occupational
training programs that
match your
talents, skills, and
interests
• Evaluate carefully the
quality and content of
any program before
enrolling

15. Other Learning Opportunities
• Investigate internships
and apprenticeships
• Learn as you earn with
“On The Job Training”
• Find out about military
programs
• Take advantage of
opportunities for
continuing education
through
– employer or
– on your own

16. Strategies for Job/Career choices
• Classify job and career factors
• In general, select jobs for short-term
purposes, careers for longer terms
• Use jobs to supplement income while going to
college or working in career
• Use jobs to serve as stepping-stones to reach
career goals
• Think of a career as a lifetime investment

17. Job OR Career?
Does anyone Is there a
see a JOB CAREER in
anywhere? sight?
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18. Job AND Career
I love my job as a taxi Thanks for getting
driver. It’s been a good me to the hospital
source of extra income on time. I have to
since I retired. And, it assist in surgery at
gets me out of the 9:00.
house!
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19. Job or Career?
Part 1
Work Factors JOB CAREER
Earnings
Income level
Length of
commitment
Purpose
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20. Job or Career?
Part 2
Work Factors JOB CAREER
Type of training
Work schedule
Extra work time
Opportunities to
advance
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21. Work Strategies- Jobs & Careers
Select jobs for short-term purposes
Plan a career for the long term
Use jobs to supplement income when needed
Use jobs as stepping-stones to careers
Think of a career as a lifetime investment
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22. Example: Lifetime Career Planning
• High School Graduate
– Part time job as sales associate at Revco
• Community College Associates Degree
– Part time job as assistant manager at Revco
• Pharmacy Tech Certification Online
– Full time career as pharmacy tech at Revco
• University Pharmacy degree
– Internship at Revco to complete Pharmacy degree
– Full time career as registered pharmacist

23. How to Classify Job and Career Factors
Factors JOB CAREER
1. Earnings Earn wages – money for hours worked Earn salary – set amount per pay period
2. Income level Generally wages are fixed, ranging from entry- to low- or mid- Generally provide higher levels of income and benefits
range incomes
3. Length of Usually relatively short-term---weeks or months—although can A more long-term commitment --- years or a lifetime
commitment be longer
4. Purpose Work primarily to earn income Contribute to a profession or life’s work
5. Type of training Initial training required; additional training to learn new Continual training required
procedures as implemented
6. Work schedule Working hours are set each week One works until tasks are completed
7. Extra work time Hours over 40 per week earn overtime No overtime for extra hours worked
8. Opportunities to Generally optional; seek promotions within current job, find Generally expected; obtain work experience, develop skills,
advance better job, or move to a career position earn higher degree to advance within a career field

24. What are
some of the
crossroads
you will come
to as you
plan your
career?
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25. Remember to consider
all of these factors
when you reach each
Career
Crossroad
and make
decisions that
will affect
your lifestyle.