Students learn to identify their skills through examining past accomplishments and to consider how skill development may be influenced by societal or cultural pressures. Students expand their personal career profiles by identifying preferred values, and interests and by identifying current skills as well as well as skills they want to develop in the future. This lesson introduces three principal changes-technology, globalization and changing workforce demographics. Students review a variety of strategies for coping with these changes including considering new work options such as self-employment and contract work, and the need for lifelong learning. Students are introduced to the concept of global business and the skills essential to stay employable in a global economy.
Students learn to identify their transferable skills, and evaluate their degree of work readiness.
Several primary industries and job functions are described and students gain insight into how their interests can offer clues to industries or types of work that they might enjoy. Students are presented with a variety of strategies for generating a list of career possibilities. Students are encouraged to brainstorm ideas and emphasize quantity over quality of ideas at this stage of the process. Explores career options. This lesson introduces the students to both print and electronic sources of occupational information.