Thursday, December 18, 2014

Find Meaning, Purpose, and Direction!

   


In your journey:
  • Understand your interests, abilities, and skills
  • Gain awareness of your future plan
Your mission is to unlock your potentials. Tips for Finding the Right Career Tool Career awareness tools help you explore who you really are. Career resources answer the question "Who am I?" Career resources point out your likes, dislikes, or interests. Search for the resource that meets your needs.

Look at the benefits. Find resources that are:
  • Eye appealing
  • Easy to use
  • Cost-effective
  • Comprehensive - Full of supplemental resources
With the right resource, you will ready and willing to:
  • Explore
  • Investigate
  • Learn
  • Ask questions
  • Enjoy discovering who they are
  • Gain knowledge, wisdom, and understanding
An effective career tool motivates and inspires you to explore careers. Creative career tools build a foundation for more detailed career exploration. Step One: Select a Career Resource How do you choose the right career resource? Look at 3 major areas:
  • Format, e.g. Printed or on-line
  • Cost
  • Resources – Supplemental information on interests, skills, and careers
When you look at a career test, ask yourself the following questions:
  • What do you prefer? Printed or on-line career test?
  • What is your budget for the tests?
Find career tests that you are interested in and that provide valuable information about careers and your interests. Look at career tests that use well-known career models. Match your interest clusters to career or job codes. Engaging resources improve attention span, concentration, memory skills, and understanding. Step Two: Explore Careers Career tests prepare you to explore careers. Gather information about fun, informative, and attractive career exploration resources. Look for resources that offer the following career information:
  • Tasks
  • Wages
  • Career outlook
  • Interests
  • Education
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Similar careers
Career exploration is a process. As Agents of career change, use resources that make your journey enjoyable, educational, and effective. Plan career exploration expeditions.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Teachers and Counselors - Agents of Career Change





As agents of career change, you guide students as they search for meaning, purpose, and direction.

In your role, you understand students:

  • You see their talents
  • You know their interests, abilities, and skills
  • You help students plan for the future
  • You know that you need to implement colorful, technological interactive presentations to engage students in using their senses and imaginations in process of career exploration

Your mission is help the students unlock their potentials. 

Tips for Finding the Right Career Tool

Career awareness tools help your students explore who they really are. Career resources answer the question "Who am I?" Career resources point out your students' likes, dislikes, or interests.
Search for the resource that meets your students' needs. Look at the benefits. Find resources that are:
  • Eye appealing
  • Easy to use
  • Comprehensive - Full of supplemental resources
With the right resource, students are ready and willing to:
  • Explore
  • Investigate
  • Learn
  • Ask questions
  • Enjoy discovering who they are
  • Gain knowledge, wisdom, and understanding
An effective career tool motivates your students to explore careers. Creative career tools build a foundation for more detailed career exploration.

Step One: Select a Career Resource

How do you choose the right career resource? Look at 3 major areas:
  • Format, e.g. Printed or on-line
  • Cost
  • Resources – Supplemental information on interests, skills, and careers
When you look at a career test, ask yourself the following questions:
  • What do your students prefer? Printed or on-line career test?
  • What is your budget for the tests?
  • What resources do you have? Do you have a computer lab?
Find career tests that your students are interested in and that provide valuable information about careers and your student's interests. Look at career tests that use well-known career models. Match students' interest clusters to career or job codes. Engaging resources improve attention span, concentration, memory skills, and understanding. As students grow older, continue to use career models expand their knowledge of careers and college majors. There are a variety of career tests for youth, college students, and adults.

Step Two: Explore Careers

Career tests prepare students to explore careers. Gather information about fun, informative, and attractive career exploration resources. Look for resources that offer the following career information:
  • Tasks
  • Wages
  • Career outlook
  • Interests
  • Education
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Similar careers
Career exploration is a process. As Agents of career change, use resources that make your students’ journey enjoyable, educational, and effective. Plan career exploration expeditions. 

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Hollandcodes.com - New Mission, New Vision, & New Web Sites



New Holland Codes Resource Center Network




Digital learning and media technology are impacting the delivery of career development resources. There must be a convergence and synchronization of career development principles with today’s electronic media.

The Holland Codes Resource Center has expanded services to people who are looking to discover their identity, purpose, and direction.

New Mission - Provide career development and social media resources engaging, connecting with digital learners utilizing printed, web-based tools and technology

New Vision – Motivate, inspire, and empower people to have an awareness of their full potential

New Web Site Network - 



Hollandcodes.com - Holland Codes related printed career tests, online career tests, books, downloads, digital courses, and other resources







Career-social-media.com – Our Career and Social Media Resource Center provides information about career, college major, job search, and social media resources. Members get access to -

Here are videos that provide an overview of the resource center -





Explorecareersandcollegemajors.com - mobile store with quick access to career tests and downloads 

Navigate the Explore Careers & College Majors store.  Here is our list of resources
We have designed web sites to help you discover your destiny, purpose, interests, abilities, and skills.

We provide tools that will help you discover the right career path.


 

Saturday, October 04, 2014

10 Top Tips for Selecting the Right Career Test & Career!





Discover who you really are and understand your likes, dislikes, and interests.   
Match your likes, interests, skills, and personality styles to careers. 
 
Use the 10 Top Tips Steps to pinpoint your interests, abilities, skills, talents, and values. 
 
There are three steps in the 10 Top Tips Process -

  • Awareness, Knowledge, and Assessment
  • Educational and Occupational Exploration
  • Career and College Major Planning




Watch a video about the 10 Top Tip.


Here are some of the topics from 10 Top Tips Booklet
  1. Follow The Road Map To Career Planning
  2. Recognize Your Interests, Abilities, Talents and Values.
  3. Learn Your Holland Personality Types and Codes.
  4. Acquire Career Clusters Information.
  5. Explore Careers.
  6. Identify Potential College Majors.
  7. Get The Quick Career Test Facts!
  8. Use Career Test Rating Chart.
  9. Get Detailed Information about career tests.
  10. Put All of the Facts Together. Use Career Test Checklist.

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Career Planning Life Cycle





There are three steps in achieving career goals and searching for a job. 

Step One: Get a Clear Career Goal

The first step in search for a job is setting a career goal

In order to set a career goal, you have to take inventory of yourself to determine what you can offer an employer. 

You need to –

  • Build awareness, knowledge and understanding of our strengths, interests, abilities, and skills
  • List your ambitions, values, education, and experiences
  • Determine your job preferences –job duties, salary, geographic location, and work conditions

Step Two: Explore Career Options

In order to identify potential careers, you may use career exploration and social media resources to gather the following occupational information –

  • Labor market
  • Work industries
  • Companies, organizations, or agencies
  • Specific careers
Use online career exploration resources to identify potential careers.

Step Three: Overcome Career Roadblocks

When you are trying to reach a career goal, there will always be obstacles.  You solve career problems by completing the following steps –

  • Identify educational and career planning obstacles
  • Create solutions or courses of action
  • Set achievable goals
  • Resolve conflicts
  • Commit to reach our goals

Step Four: Execution

You execute your career plans when you use different strategies –

  • Reality testing
  • Social Media
  • Job Search Strategies – Resume Writing and Interview Preparation

Reality Testing
While implementing and, you translate vocational interests, abilities, and skills into job opportunities. You do reality testing by implementing a variety of strategies.


Social Media and Networking Tools

Networking can help you complete targeted job searches.  You can use a variety of social media tools to learn and connect with professional associations and potential employers. Three major networking social media tools are –

  • Twitter
  • Linkedin
  • Facebook

Resume Writing and Interviewing Strategies

Resume writing and interview preparation are essential skills needed to land a potential job.


Types of resumes are –

  • Chronological – listing experiences in reverse chronological order
  • Functional – emphasizing specific skills

Interviewing

There are steps to prepare for a successful interview -

  • Review common interview questions
  • Prepare for behavior or STAR interviews
  • Practice - Practice is essential for a successful interview.
  • Dress for success

The Career Planning Life Cycle is used with a variety of career tests.

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