Career Model

  Career Resources for Taking Control of Your Career and Life   

Career and Life Planning is a method of exploration and discovery that will lead you to making informed choices in choosing a career and a direction for your life.   Doing career planning is not only the best way to find your dream occupation, it also defines a pathway which you may identify new ideas that you might not have considered. 

Career planning is not just about the now.  Career planning is all  about the future.  Learn how you can make better career decisions?  Don’t leave your career and life to chance! 
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.  {Mark Twain}

The Jaazle Career Development Model©

Step 1.  Define your Interests, Self-Esteem, Values, Skills and Personality (also know as Behavior Traits). [See Assessments below]

Step 2.  Apply data found in Step One to create a list of promising Occupational titles

Step 3.  Research your promising Occupational Options (Step Two)

Step 4.  Conduct an Informational Interview

Step 5.  Match Your Career Options to a Financial (Budget) Plan

Step 6.  Merge your findings in Step 1, 3, 4 and f5 to narrow down your occupational options) to a final choice(s)

Step 7.  Implement actions that  allow you to achieve (become) your career option

Step 8.  Create a  3, 5 and 10 year plan which will identify where you want to experience your dream career occupation

EXPERIENCES THE POWER OF ASSESSMENTS

Read how an Assessment can help you make an informed career decision.  There are many types of assessment instruments.  These instruments can be used for a variety of career-related activities.  An assessment can be free or taken for a fee.  The assessment can be self – directed or professionally interpreted.  Below are assessment examples that you might find helpful in defining the types of careers that you may find of value. Contact a Jaazle Representative if you wish further assistance. 

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Interest Assessments are used to us help identify work activities that you find enjoyable and rewarding as an occupation. Classify occupations into work categories.

• The Perfect Career Interest Inventory [A personal assessment tool design d to help you identify your strongest work interests.]
  
• The Choices Planner (Florida Residents Only)[A career exploration and information system that allows you to assess your interests and abilities.]
  
• O*NET’s Interest Profiler (Free Registration Required) [The O*NET Interest Profiler (IP) is a self-assessment career exploration tool that can help you discover the type of work activities and occupations that you would like and find exciting.]

Skills Assessments are used to help you identify your skills and how they connect you to various occupations. Explore careers that match your skills. Identify your skills and match them to occupational titles.

• www.mySkillsmyFuture.org [Users can identify occupations that require skills and knowledge similar to their work experience, learn more about these suggested matches.]
  
• O*NET Data descriptors: Categories of occupational information collected and available for O*NET-SOC occupations.
  
• “Recognizing your unique blend of abilities can help you make yourself marketable to employers. It may also help you decide if you need to upgrade your skills. ”

Value Assessments are used to help identify work activities that are important to you which fulfill your personal and professional needs. Learn what is important to you in a job. Consider your values when choosing an occupation and a career.

• Rutgers: Values Assessment: Knowing your values will help you choose occupations and make wise employment choices
  
• Portland Community College: Values Assessment: You might be surprised to learn you have two sets of values — work values and personal values.
  
• O*NET® Work Importance Profiler^{TM [}A computerized self-assessment career exploration tool that allows you to focus on what is important to you in a job.]

Personality Assessments are used to understand how you make career decision and how your personality preferences influence your personal and professional life.

• Just like your preferred preference in using one hand verses the other, you also have a personality preference.  This preference guides your choices or decisions.  It influences how you react to things and how you view your world.  Becoming aware of how your personality preferences influences your personal and professional life.  Using this information effectively empowers you to make wiser, and more informed decisions.
  
• Jaazle using the Personal Empowerment through Type (P.E.T.) instrument to identify your personality type.  P.E.T. is a web-based program for empowering individuals to learn productively & adjust to life and learning proactively.  This instrument helps recognize individual learning profiles and provides real strategies that will facilitate learning and wise decision making. Your P.E.T. comprehensive report provides support materials, based on psychological type for:
  • Learning Styles
  • Communication
  • Work Preferences
  • Stress
  • Problem Solving
  • Decision Making
  • Teamwork
  • Conflict Resolution

  The automated system allows immediate access to a report of your learning styles and relevant decision-making strategies. 

• For additional information on this cost-based assessment instrument, please contact Larrygoldsmith@jaazle.com to learn how you can apply your personality to achieve greater success in work and life.  [Larry is a Certified Personal Empowerment through Type Facilitator]
  
  Assessment Tips: 
  Always register when taking an assessment otherwise your information will not be saved.
  Assessments are not tests.   They are tools to help you identify and define who you are.
  Assessments are not written in stone.  They are guides.  Only you can make informed decisions! 
  For better results complete more than one inventory.  
  Most assessments  listed above are self-directed.  Contact  a Jaazle Career Development Professional if want a professional interpretation.

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