Explore your career values and career options Rejoyce

Explore your career values and career options Rejoyce Wang Career Advisor Admissions and Career Development Office AB 228

Interests and Career Development • ACDO provides online assessments for all students in terms of career interest inventory, personality types (MBTI), value-based indicator of motivation. • Please visit workspace link to take online psychometric test and the page also provides you website, access code ad password for you to take an assessment. You will receive report by email after you finish your assessment. • You can also make an appointment with career advisor Tuesday afternoon to receive 1 on 1 career advice service;

Choosing career? • Case 1: James: a year three student Choice 1: A job with common income, good welfare, stable working condition, Choice 2: A job with high income, great challenge but instable working condition

Choosing career? • John: a final year student • His brother is working in an international company. • John realizes that on the face of it, the job is shining, in fact His brother is very tired. Usually he has to work until 2 am. • John is doubting that whether it is necessary to get such kind of job to satisfy his vanity.

Choosing career? �Sally is a student in the major of English. She is confused about her future. �On one hand, maybe she is suitable for english translation work �On other hand, she can not be satisfied by working for other people. She hope to have her own business. She is full of ambition. �But she realizes that undergraduate study seems can not guarantee the success in future. �She is puzzled that what she can achieve to make herself satisfied.

What will you choose? • What do you really want? Fish or bear’s paw? • What is a really good job? • What is the best suitable job for YOU? • In which jobs, you can happily devote your whole life and get self-actualization to realize your own value? ………. . • It is more about your personal value system!

Your Ideal Job • “I want to do such kind of jobs, such as……” • Within one minute, quickly write all the short phrases about the characteristics of your ideal jobs • Eg, full of achievement sense, creativity, help other people, near to home, high salary, equality and harmonious within working atmosphere… • All of these can reflect what you are searching through your job, and reflect your own standard for judging a “GOOD” or “BAD” job. • they are your part of your value system toward your job

What is value system? • Value is the principles or standards, which you regard as important in your life and work. • It is the underlying motivation behind individual’s behavior. • Has great influence on individual’s career choice and development

Occupational values • They are the essential items that you expect to obtain from the work. • They are the characteristics or properties you pursuit when you undertake working activities which can satisfy your inner needs (Super, 1970). • The value guides you to choose occupation • It will provide a basis for exploring careers • Of course, occupational values should be related to other factors, such as your abilities and interests.

4 value themes

e. g. 4 important value themes

24 values

Exercise Very important Important (sometime) less important Not important You have 50 value cards and please put cards to above table as soon as you can. No more than 8 cards for the “Very important” column; Put cards which give you strongest feeling to top in each column;

Exercise • Make choice: option A and option B

Exercise • Make choice

Thank you You can make an appointment with career advisor Tuesday afternoon to receive 1 on 1 career advice service.