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Part Three Making Plans for Career Success
1. Technology Education. Invite the
technology teacher to class to discuss the
skills needed to produce various products.
Ask questions about specifi c items that
interest you. You may bring actual items to
class or pictures from magazines.
2. Math. Create a bar graph that indicates
your attitudes about various topics. Vertically
on the left, alphabetically list your courses,
extracurricular activities, hobbies, and other
favorite pursuits and interests. Across the
bottom, label a scale from 1 to 10. (A rating
of 10 indicates the highest enjoyment.)
Building Academic Skills
1. Take a self-assessment test using one
of the following Web sites: 2h.com/
personality-tests.html and queendom.
com/tests/personality. Write a summary
paragraph that describes what these tests
revealed about your personality.
2. Use PowerPoint software and a digital
camera to create a presentation that
refl ects your personality. You can show
your skills and talents through pictures of
yourself in sports, intramurals, community
activities, hobbies, and family activities.
3. Use a word processing program to list
everything you enjoy doing. Color-code
the items as follows: red = solitary
pursuits; blue = pursuits involving one or
more people; green = costs money; and
yellow = involves sports. (Note: Items may
have two or three colors.)
4. Use a spreadsheet program to keep track
of what you have learned about yourself.
Document your abilities, skills, personality,
personal priorities, attitudes, and interests.
Building Technology Skills
1. Working in a small group, identify and
list personality traits you would want your
coworkers to have. Compare lists. Which
personality traits did everyone in the group list?
2. Research the background of a successful
person. Write a one-page report on how
the person’s interests, aptitudes, and
abilities helped him or her succeed.
3. List your positive and negative attitudes.
Identify those that you would like to change
or improve. Develop a plan that will enable
you to change. (Keep this activity private
or, if you desire, share it with your teacher.)
4. Ask your guidance counselor if it would be
possible for you to take a self-assessment
inventory. After you take the assessment,
summarize the results. What did you learn
about yourself?
Building Career Knowledge
Interview local employers to find out how
they try to determine if job candidates have
the personality traits, attitudes, and work
values they desire in employees. Working
with two or three classmates, decide how to
divide the following tasks. Interview at least
two local employers to obtain the information.
Summarize your findings in a one-page report,
and create an interesting cover page that
focuses on one of the key points you learned.
Use a computer to develop both the report
and cover page. Present your cover page to
the class, briefly describing what inspired your
team to create it.
Building Career Skills