New Career Planning Life Cycle!

Are you having trouble setting career goals?  In searching for the right career, there are so many options and decisions. Hollandcodes.com has the tools that will help you to make the right career decisions. 

Overview

There are three steps in career planning cycle that will help you achieve your career goals and search for a career. 

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

 Problem solving should take into consideration personal interests, skills, values, and financial resources. Big problems are broken down into smaller, more manageable steps. Achievable goals result in the production of new competencies, attitudes, and solutions.

As an individual, you:

• Set, formulate, prioritize, and rank goals
• Clearly state our vocational interests, abilities, and values
• Derive plans or strategies to implement the solutions
• Make a commitment to complete the plans
• Understand decision-making processes
• Evaluate the primary choice
• Consider a secondary occupational choice, if necessary

 Decision-making processes include:

•  Develop a career plan
• Identify a potential occupations
• Selecting appropriate educational programs
• Figuring the costs of educational training
• Considering the impact of career decisions.

 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 the following strategies –

• Informational interviewing
• Networking
• Job shadowing
• Internships
• Part-time employment
• Full-time employment
• Volunteer work

 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.

Resumes

 Your resume is your sales tool that lets employers know your strengths, interests, experience, and educational background.

 The appearance of your resume is extremely important.  Check the appearance of your resume - your font, spelling, spacing, margins.  In a resume, you will highlight your skills that make you unique and set you apart from others.  Common areas covered in a resume are –

 Types of resumes are –

 Interviewing

 There are steps to prepare for a successful interview -

Interested in more comprehensive career inventories. 

Use the following tools to select the right career assessment.  The selection process includes:

SDS Form R INTERNET Version

The Self-Directed Search is easy to use - Complete the career assessment in 30 minutes.

The NEW fifth edition of the SDS is designed to help clients learn about themselves and their career options. Whether they are college students choosing a major, veterans entering the civilian job market, or adults pursuing a career change, clients can use the SDS to learn more about occupations that match their interests, abilities, and personalities.

Like its predecessors, the SDS 5th Edition is based on John Holland’s theory that both people and work environments can be classified according to six basic types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. These personality types are known collectively as the Holland RIASEC model.

The SDS asks questions about the individual’s aspirations, activities, competencies, and level of interest in different occupations. From the responses, the SDS generates a three-letter Summary Code, which can be used to help the individual find his or her educational and occupational matches.

This easy-to-use, comprehensive career exploration tool asks questions about the individual’s aspirations, activities, competencies, occupations, and other self-estimates. The resulting three-letter Summary Code, which designates the three personality types an individual most closely resembles, can then be used to help the individual find his or her occupational match.

Features and benefits

New Improved Self Directed Search Form R INTERNET Version

For adults and college students

With each purchase, the user receives by e-mail an identification number and password to generate a confidential, eight-to-twelve page interpretive report including information about occupations matched to Holland Codes.

Why the new SDS 5th Edition?

Here are the features for the New SDS 5th Edition -

• O*NET database integration—SDS results are linked to thousands of current occupations.
• A redesigned report provides an “at-a-glance” summary of occupations, aspirations, leisure activities, and more.
• Users can share their SDS results on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
• Device friendly, the SDS now works on your mobile device or tablet!

Regular Price $25, Sale Price: $15.00/ Form R INTERNET Version

Please Note: Customer will receive User ID number and assigned password by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.

New Improved Self Directed Search Form R Mobile Version

With each purchase, the user receives by e-mail an identification number and password to generate a confidential, eight-to-twelve page interpretive report including information about occupations matched to Holland Codes.

Why the new SDS 5th Edition?

Here are the features for the New SDS 5th Edition -

• O*NET database integration—SDS results are linked to thousands of current occupations.
• A redesigned report provides an “at-a-glance” summary of occupations, aspirations, leisure activities, and more.
• Users can share their SDS results on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
• Device friendly, the SDS now works on your mobile device or tablet!

Regular Price $25, Sale Price: $15.00/ Form R Mobile Version

Please Note: Customer will receive User ID number and assigned password by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.

Strong Interest Inventory®

For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment The Strong Interest Inventory® comes as an on-line Holland Code assessment that helps you identify -

• Interests
• Holland Codes
• Careers

The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment is the most respected and widely used career planning instrument in the world.

The results include –

Adult, High School, and College Profile Reports

The Adult, High School, and College Profile Reports have the following information –

DELIVERY INFORMATION:

Strong Interest Inventory® is an ON-LINE, Holland Code career self assessment test. Please Note:

Please Note: Customer will receive Strong Interest Inventory instructions by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.

After completing inventory, customer will receive Strong Interest Inventory Report within 24 hours.

COST for Strong Interest Inventory®: $80/ Sale Price $70

Order the Strong Interest Inventory® Report. There are three (3) editions: Standard (Adults), High School, and College.

Please Note: Customer will receive User ID number and assigned password by the NEXT BUSINESS DAY.

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