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YOUR CAREER

Career - a sequence of jobs that constitute what a


person does for a living.
Career Planning is the ongoing process where you:
• Explore your interests and abilities.
• Systematically or strategically planning career
goals
• Creating future work success by designing
learning and action plans to help you achieve
your goals.
1. Become aware of forces that are changing the
office environment.
2. Identify career opportunities in the office field.
3. Develop the skills and knowledge needed to
succeed in the business office.
4. Develop a career plan with short-
and long-range goals.
5. Engage in effective decision
making.
• Information Age
• Changing Labor Force
• Changing Businesses
Service Industries
International Businesses
TYPES OF POSITION AVAILABLE:
• LEGAL
Typical
• MEDICAL Duties Includes:
• Extensive
Duties may include:
• EDUCATION Processing of Documents
• Performing
• Duties consist
using
TECHNICAL theof:computerduties in greeting
receptionist
• patients
Setting
Assistingupwith
• ENTERTAINMENT
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES meetings
legal and
research
INCLUDE:
• Handling the business operations, such as
• Preparing
• GOVERNMENT
conferences
Filing courtfeespapers
collections ofreports and papers
•• Preparing
Editing governmental
Takingmaterials
notes
Maintaining records ofreports
on proceedings
payment patients
• Keeping
etc.
Ordering records
Supplies
•• etc
etc.
• Communication Skills
• Human Relations Skills
• Time and Organization Management Skills
• Decision-Making Skills
• Creative Thinking Skills
• Technology Skills
• Lifelong-learning Skills
SET APPROPRIATE GOALS:
Long-Range
Short-RangeGoals:
Goals:
• Your
WhatStrengths
are my strong points?
and Weaknesses
• Your
WhatMotivation
are my weak points?
• Your
WhatEnergy
are myLevel
achivements?
• Your
WhatUltimate Desire to Succeed in
are my failures?
what you've planned
• What do I enjoy doing?for yourself.
• Where do I want to be in five years?
Ten years?
Keep in mind that your goals
will change over time and that
you will not always reach all of
your short- and long-range goals.
However, if you get through life
without setting goals, you will
never accomplish much.
Decision is the outcome or product of a
problem, concern or issue that must be
addressed and solved. The process by
which a decision is reached includes five
steps. You should systematically follow
these steps in making a decision.
Define the Problem or the Purpose

Establish the Criteria

Generate Alternatives or Possible Solutions

Test the Alternaties and Make the Decision

Evaluate the Decision


Define the Problem or the Purpose

2 JOB OFFERS:
Establish the Criteria

What do you want to achieve?

What do you want to preserve?

What do you want to avoid?


Generate Alternatives or Possible Solutions
Test the Alternaties
Make the Decision
Evaluate the Decision

What is RIGHT and


WRONG from the
decision?
How did the decision
making work? How can it
be improved in the future?
Evaluate the Decision

What was learned from the


decision?

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