Career Planning & Job Searching

LT 30: Career Planning & Job Searching

Students will become aware of how career planning is influenced by their present situation, which includes their self-concept, friends, family, community and available resources. Students will recognize that career planning is affected by what they know about the future concerning themselves, friends, family, community and available resources. Students will acknowledge that career planning reflects personal goals and lifestyle goals. Students will consider career plans that accommodate change and growth in their personal life and their family life, as well as in the world of work. Students will develop the lifelong skill of making career planning decisions that reflect personal goals, lifestyle goals and career goals. Students will develop and apply successful job search skills. Students will become familiar with employee interview skills which they can apply, now and in the future, to getting a job and perhaps to changing jobs. Students will consider those skills and attitudes needed to retain a job. Students will develop the lifelong skills of making decisions about job search, changing jobs, retaining jobs and job loss.