Many Ways To Win

Many ways to win

• There are plenty of jobs that only require 2 years of education!
• If you want to have success in your career, you need to make sure you:
• Learn more about today's workplace and the skills needed to succeed
• Explore a variety of career paths and identify the best education for you
• Match your personality type to possible careers

GET REAL

• Job Market Realities - 3 Categories:
• Unskilled, Skilled, Professional
• Unskilled Jobs: No special skills/training
• Skilled Jobs: Training/expertise in specific field
• Professional Jobs: Bachelor degree or higher.

CHECK YOUR GAUGES

• Unskilled Jobs Include: Hotel Housekeeper,
• Social Worker, Telemarketer, Stock Clerk and more!
• Skilled Jobs Include: Radiology Tech, Accountant,
• Court Reporter, Carpenter, Pharmacist, and more!
• Professional Jobs Include: Fire Fighter, Engineer, and more!

ALL ROADS LEAD TO... SUCCESS!

• Common Educational Routes Include:
• Apprenticeships, Certificate Programs, and Degrees!
• All are offered through colleges, and help you get on track!
• These will help you get degrees like: Bachelors, Masters,
• Advanced Professionals, or go through the Military!

Skills Wanted

• Must have skills to do job, while also having social skills.
• Hard Skills: The technical skills you need to do your job.
• Soft Skills: The ability to get along with co-workers, 
• solve problems, and have a good attitude!

Would u hire u?

• Do you have what it takes?
• Answer these few questions to see if you would
• indeed, hire you!
• Good Communicator? Positive Attitude? Punctual? 
• Team Player? Reliable? Honest? Organized? Flexible?

Stay ahead of the curve

• Best know what industries will stay the best!
• Here are some factors to keep in mind when looking
• at the job industries:
• Growing Healthcare Demand, Increasing Digitized Work,
• Globalization, Clinical Genomics, Environmentalism, Security.

Healthcare highway/road test

• One growing job industry is Healthcare!
• Some jobs in the Healthcare industry that require
• under a year of education or training are:
• Home Health Aides, Medical Transcriptionists, EMTs,
• Med Assistants, Dental Assistants, Pharmacy Techs, and more!

Going green

• California is going green and coming out with Hot
• Green Job Industries, and some with opportunities are:
• Advanced Biofuels, Geothermal Energy, Green Chemistry,
• Green Manufacturing, Smart Grid, Solar Energy, Sustainable
• Agriculture and more. All are different, but focus on the same thing.

Many directions/Crack your code/key insight

• Holland has a code of personalities in the job market, and the six are:
• Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional
• Each group has something special about it, and does different things.
• Each group will have different jobs in Holland and will act differently.
• This means you have a variety of things to choose from.

Smart goals/hit your target

• SMART goals are great because they are
• Specific, Measurable, Action Packed, Realistic, and Time-Bound.
• Each goal is used for different things, and SMART goals help stay 
• away from vague goals, and state exactly what you want to accomplish
• so it is very clear and there is no going back.

road blocks

• Once you have your SMART goals, you have to overcome
• your newfound obstacles, or, ROAD blocks.
• ROAD stands for: Results, Obstacles, Action, Develop Partnerships
• If you follow SMART goals and ROAD blocks, what you want in the
• future will be very clear and visible, and will help accomplish goals.

Short and tweet

• Before starting your career, review this advise:
• "A good beginning makes a good end." - English Proverb
• "A man should learn to sail in all winds." - Italian Proverb
• "We will be known by the tracks we leave behind." - NA Proverb
• "Between word and deed, there's a wide trench." - Spanish Proverb

ready, set, go!

• Q: What 3 soft skills do you want to develop?
• A: 1: I want to take initiative more.
• 2: I want to become more reliable.
• 3: I want to become a better problem solver.

Ready, set, go!

• Write one SMART Career Goal:
• Goal: I want to have gotten in great shape by the end of the
• school year.
• Who to Call for Advice/Help: My brother, Anthony, who is a 
• personal trainer.

Ready, set, go!

• S: I want to be in better shape than I am now.
• M: I want to make good progress every 3 weeks.
• A: To do this, I will maintain a great diet and workout plan.
• R: I want to see progress every three weeks.
• T: I want to be in great shape by the end of the school year.

ready, set, go!

• A job that interests me and fits my Holland Code:
• Engineer
• Where can I get the education I need for this job:
• UC and CS Colleges.

Ready, set, go!

• What one step can I take today to move 
• closer to finding my career direction:
• I can go to work with my aunt, who is an engineer,
• and focus on what the job is like and what skills are needed

ready, set, go!

• One obstacle that could get in the way of my 
• career journey:
• I could end up in a slump and not afford my education.
• How I could use ROAD to overcome it: (next slide)

ready, set, go!

• R: I have always been great with building and I enjoy it
• O: Education cost, staying on track, second guessing
• A: Focus on getting one class, one degree at a time
• D: I don't really need to partner with anyone, but I can go
• to family members for help whenever I need to