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1. Personalize, customize your career exploration experience
by
Dr. Mary Askew
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2. Personalize and Customize
any Combination of FREE Career Tests!
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Interest Assessment
Skills
Assessment
Values Assessment
Personality
Assessment
5 or more
Options
You choose
between different
free career tests!
Flexible, low cost
online supplemental
resources!
Learn what to do
next after completing
free career test!

3. Keys to Successful Planning
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Build
Career
Planning
Strategies
Know
About
Self
Knowledge
about
Occupations &
College Majors

4. Steps in the Career Planning Process
Created by Ronald Askew, MPM
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5. Step One – Awareness, Knowledge,
and Assessment
Gain knowledge and understanding of –
 Personality styles
 Interests
 Skills
 Values
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6. What are Your Personality Trait
Clusters or Factors?
Need –
 For freedom and action
 To understand the world
around them
 To be useful and of service
 To understand themselves
and others
Value –
 Living here and now
 Competency and power
of the mind
 Being in charge
 Authenticity and
autonomy
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7. What are Your Transferable Skills?
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 Communication skills
 Critical thinking skills
 Mathematical skills
 Scientific skills
 Social skills
 Technical skills
 Decision making skills
 Management skills
 Interpersonal Skills
 Organizational skills
 Creative skills
 Informational skills

8. What are Your Interests?
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9. What are Your Values?
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 Achievement
 Creativity
 Objective Analysis
 Responsibility
 Concern for Others
 Humility
 Independence
 Privacy
 Belonging
 Health and Activity
 Concern for Environment
 Financial Prosperity

10. Career Decision Making
Rank careers
according to
personality trait
clusters , values,
interests, and skills
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11. Step Two – Educational and
Occupational Exploration
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 Perform career research
 Do information interview
 Perform job shadowing
 Identify potential careers
 Narrow career options
 Identify working conditions desired
 Identify desired salary
 Identify training requirements

12. Step Three - Career Planning
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Perform problem solving and decision making
 Identify any steps necessary to achieve career
and educational goals.
 Gather information on each step.
 Judge the pros and cons of each step.
 Select best alternative.
 Formulate plan to carry out alternative.
 Make commitment to carry out alternative.
 Accept responsibility for decision.

13. More Information!
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