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Tamara Lasley

Professor Lewis

HC101 Composition

15 February 2007

Career Planning

Career planning is an important, ongoing process. It is important because the career you choose will affect your quality of life.

One important step in career planning is to define your career objective.

Your skills and your knowledge would probably be useful in any of several jobs. So, if opportunities for a particular job dry up, you may be able to find another job elsewhere. The U.S. Office of Education has identified 15 so-called “career clusters.” Each career cluster is a group of related jobs. When preparing for a career, it may help to think in terms of career clusters. (Cunningham, Aldag, and Block 701)

Another useful step in career planning is to develop a personal profile of your skills, interests and values.

An analysis of your skills is likely to reveal that you have many different kinds: (1) functional skills that determine how well you manage time, communicate, and motivate people; (2) adaptive skills that determine your efficiency, flexibility, reliability, and enthusiasm; and (3) technical skills such as keyboarding, computer, and language skills that are required for many jobs (Scheele 7).

Values are your priorities in life, and you should identify them early so that you can pursue a career that will improve your chances to acquire them. Values include the importance you place on family, security, wealth, prestige, creativity, power, and independence (Fulton-Calkins and Hanks 93).

Table 1-Conversion Factors

|CONVERSION FACTORS |

|To Change |To |Multiply By |

|Feet |Meters |.3048 |

|Meters |Feet |3.2808 |

|Gallons |Liters |3.7853 |

|Liters |Gallons |.2642 |

|Inches |Millimeters |25.4 |

|Millimeters |Inches |.0394 |

Interests are best described as activities you like and enthusiastically pursue. By listing and analyzing your interests, you should be able to identify a desirable work environment. For example, your list is likely to reveal if you like to work with things or people, work alone or with others, lead or follow others, or be indoors or outdoors.

Works Cited

Cunningham, William H., Ramon J. Aldag, and Stanley B. Block. Business in a Changing World. 3d ed. Cincinnati: South-Western Publishing Co., 1993.

Fulton-Calkins, Patsy and Joanna D. Hanks. Procedures for the Office Professional. 4th ed. Cincinnati: South-Western Educational Publishing, 2000.

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