Today’s Agenda• Career Interest Profiler (CIP) results.

www.onetonline.org

• Explain Viable Job Markets

• Product Life Cycles: Emerging, Rapid Growth, Mature, Declining. Where does your career interest lie?

• Job Trends? Group “Mind Mapping” of Trends www.careerinfonet.org, http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs

• What problem do you want to solve? What service do you want to provide? Why?

• Reflect, Revise, your Venn Diagram

“CIP” What does it mean? Why take?

• Career Interest Profiler (in Navaince) is based on the Holland Code which sorts personality preferences into 6 categories and offers career examples for each category.

• Your results will evolve throughout your lifetime as your experiences and interests change.

• Statistically, you are likely to have 3 to 5 careers in your lifetime. Dept. of Labor Statistics

• Understanding your interests allows you to make a strategic choice for college. If you know what industry you might like, then you can begin to intentionally choose colleges based on the majors offered.

You tube video explaining 6 sectorshttp://youtu.be/YF0j_UY_-bA Career Exploration Tacoses100

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What were your Career Interest Profiler

results in Naviance?

Career Exploration video

• http://youtu.be/YF0j_UY_-bA

youtube

Internet Research using CIP results Go to www.onetonline.org

Interests

Reflect & Revise

Industry Life Cycles: Where does your interest lie?

Emerging Markets Rapid Growth Markets

Declining MarketsMature Markets

Fact: Jobs are created to solve problems or provide services.

Most important questions to ask yourself. What problem do you want to solve, or what service do you want to provide? For whom? Why?

Mind Mapping(written brainstorming)

TRENDSaffecting

job growth

Computerization

DemographicsGlobalization

Environment

Technology

Healthcare

Personal SecurityWorkforce

Testing our Mind Map

• Go to: www.careerinfonet.org (source: Dept. of Labor Statistics)

• What are the 50 fastest growing occupations requiring degrees?

• What trends are influencing these growing occupations?

• http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs

Research Favorite IndustryGoogle Alert

SKILLSNaviance’s:

Strengths Finders and Stanford Univ.’s skills

sheet

Interests & PassionsNaviance’s: Personality Test &Career Interest Profiler

Growth Industry research resourceswww.onetonline.orgwww.careerinfonet.org

US News World ReportsFortune ListsGoogle Alerts (example) growth industries, job trends