ACTIVITIES: What Influences Your Career? (Basic)

Print out this checklist and use it to consider what factors influence your career choice.

EXPECTATIONS

• Desired lifestyle
• Desired work image
• Environmental Conditions

MOBILITY

• Work location
• Willingness to move
• Restrictions
• Hours of work and travel

NEEDS

• Examine expectations
• Social and economic situation
• Restrictions

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

• Labour market situation
• Future outlook
• Employment prospects

LIFE EXPERIENCE

• Experience that cannot be learned in school
• Maturity

PERSONAL VALUES

• Lifestyle
• Priorities
• Extra-curricular activities

EDUCATION

• Academic Achievement
• Subjects preferred or best at
• Education expectations: Community college level? University level?

SELF-CONCEPT

• The person you think you are
• Projected image
• Self-confidence
• Reality vs. wants
• Self-doubts

PERSONALITY

• Temperament
• Motivation
• Maturity
• Compromise

SKILLS

• Work experience
• Academic achievement
• Strengths
• Developed as a volunteer or through activities, hobbies, community participation
• Trade

INTERESTS

• Preferred activities
• Manifest preferences
• Inventory tests

APTITUDES

• Abilities
• Ability to learn different skills
• Measured by aptitude test
• Potential skills

COINCIDENCE

• To be at the right place at the right time
• Chance influenced by action

PHYSICAL CAPACITIES

• Health
• Medical Reports
• Energy Level
• Physical limitation

FAMILY

• Family commitments
• Restriction
• Needs
• Expectations
• Peer Pressure

 

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