Career Awareness and Interest Inventory

Leonard Middle SchoolCareer Portals in Business

2015-2016

Objectives

• To encourage you to begin thinking about career choices/goals, and make good decisions about high school coursework

• Complete an Interest Inventory to help identify your high interest areas

• Explore careers that match your high interest areas – the selected careers do NOT have to be the only careers you explore

Career Bound – Future Found Your Future is Now!

Interests & Skills•What do I like and dislike? (Interests)•What do I do well? (Skills)

Life After High School•There are a lot of “where’s” – apprenticeships, career/technical schools, employment, military opportunities, colleges and universities. It’s important to choose a “where” that fits you.

Academic Plan (Classes)All good roads to your future go through high school.

1. Who Am I? 2. Where do I want to go?

3. How will I get there?

Vocational

Technical School

Junior college

High School

University

(graduate)

University

(Doctorate)

University

(Undergraduate)

Professional

School

MilitaryMiddle School

What is an interest inventory

• self assessment tool • used in career planning• assesses one's likes and dislikes of a variety

of activities, objects, and types of persons• The theory behind interest inventories:

people in the same career (and satisfied in that career) have similar interests

World of Work

Instructions For each item, answer the question:

L = You would like to do that? = You do not know if you would like to do thatD = You would dislike doing that.

Complete the entire inventory, then input your results in Twiducate.

World of Work

Next step• Research careers.• Make sure to review

• Description – What does a person do on this job?• Training- How much education is needed on this

job?• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities – What do you

need to be able to do?• Tasks – What will you have to do on the job?• Work Values – What values are important?• Labor Market – What does the job market look

like? Will there be lots of jobs?

Using your Information • Once you know the education requirements of your

selected career, you can choose courses in high school that will help you achieve that goal

• Begin exploring other ways you can increase the skills needed for your selected career

• Talk to people already working in your selected career