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MANAGING YOUR CAREER FOR A LIFETIME

Many people feel like prisoners in a career that does not reflect or enhance their God-given design.

How do most people make career decisions?

First or easiest job

Money

Title

Friends

Job offered

Parents’ jobs

Parents’ dreams

Abilities

THE CAREER DIRECT ASSESSMENT + ACTION PLAN = PROCESS

INTERESTS

GENERAL INTEREST AREAS

5 Interest Areas

21 Career Groups

30,000+ Occupations

INTERESTS: Five broad vocational categories

1 DOING– Mechanical– Outdoors/Agriculture– Security/

Enforcement– Athletics– Adventure

2 HELPING– Service– Transportation– Animal Care– Consumer Science

3 INFLUENCING– Management/Sales– Law/ Politics– Education – Counseling– International– Religious

4 ANALYZING– Science/ Health– Technological

Sciences– Computational/

Financial5 EXPRESSING– Performing/

Communication– Writing– Artistic

SKILLS

SKILLS: Fourteen groups

1. Management

2. Interpersonal

3. Working with Others

4. Mechanical

5. Analytical

6. Musical

7. Athletic

8. Organizing

9. Marketing

10. Artistic

11. Cross-cultural

12. Clerical

13. Writing

14. Math

PERSONALITY

SIX PERSONALITY FACTORS:

DOMINANCE/ DOMINANCE/ COMPLIANCECOMPLIANCE

EXTROVERSION/ EXTROVERSION/ INTROVERSIONINTROVERSION

COMPASSION/ COMPASSION/ DETACHMENTDETACHMENT

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS/ CONSCIENTIOUSNESS/ UNSTRUCTUREDUNSTRUCTURED

ADVENTUROUSNESS/ ADVENTUROUSNESS/ CAUTIOUSNESSCAUTIOUSNESS

INNOVATION/ INNOVATION/ CONVENTIONCONVENTION

Stress and Financial Stress and Financial FactorsFactors

STRESS Factor• High Stress = tense, nervous, High Stress = tense, nervous,

inadequate inadequate

• Moderate Stress = typical in today’s Moderate Stress = typical in today’s

career/life situationscareer/life situations

• Low Stress = calm, confident, Low Stress = calm, confident, good self-imagegood self-image

Indebtedness Indebtedness FactorFactor High IndebtednessHigh Indebtedness

• Debt management problemsDebt management problems

• Expenses exceed incomeExpenses exceed income

• Borrowing to get byBorrowing to get by

• High interest credit cardsHigh interest credit cards

• Need: Crown Financial Ministries Need: Crown Financial Ministries

Program and Program and a budget!

Financial Management Financial Management FactorFactor

Soundness of money management Soundness of money management practicespractices

• Unsound financial management = no Unsound financial management = no planplan

• Sound financial management = Sound financial management = budget, saving, investingbudget, saving, investing

VALUES

VALUES: three categories

1. Work Environment What elements are most important to you in the work environment?

3. Life Values What is most important to you in fulfilling your life purpose?

2. Work Outcomes What outcomes do you want from your work?

Too many people have a worldly view of work.

The best kept secret in our materialistic culture?

personally,

individually, and

uniquely, with a one-of-a-kind design.

We have a “designer God.”

He does not mass produce. He creates each human being...

Discover your God-given design...

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