The Goal of Career Planning Resource Center
We help teachers, parents, and teens -
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Assess Vocational Interests, Motivational Gifts, Behavior Styles, and Learning Styles
Identify Career and Educational Goals
Perform Career Research
Career Planning and Exploration
We teach that there are three steps within the career planning and exploration process.
Step One - Awareness, Knowledge, and Assessment
Adults and teens complete one or more of the following
assessments -
· Learning Style Assessment
· Motivational Gift Assessment
· Career Assessments
Adults and teens identify -
·Learning style(s)
·Motivational gift(s)
·Vocational interests, abilities, skills, and values, or
·DISC personality styles
Step Two - Exploration, Problem Solving, and Goal Setting
·Adults and teens perform career research -
·Adults and teens identify potential careers
·Adults and teens begin narrowing career options by -
·Identifying career interest
·Identifying the desired salary path
·Identifying the working conditions desired
·Identifying possible educational courses required
Step Three - Career Planning
·Adults and teens perform research to identify educational courses
·Determining major courses required
·Determining type and size of college or university desired
·Determining college or university location
·Determining financial requirements
·Adults and teens put what they know into action
·Performing information interview
·Performing career shadowing
·Performing internship / apprenticeship
