2. Like a flower, you will flourish in some job
environments and wither in others.
The flower diagram of yourself is to help you
identify what kind of work environment you
will flourish in, and thus where you will do
your best work.
Your goals should be to be as happy you can
be at your job, while at the same time doing
your most effective work.
4. Identify Transferable Skills
Step 1: Favorite Values
Step 2: Favorite Special Knowledges
Step 3: Favorite People-Environments
Step 4: Favorite Working Conditions
Step 5: Level of Responsibility
Step 6: Favorite Geography
Step 7: Your Career Choice
5. Create a PowerPoint with all 7 Steps to
describe yourself and the job of your
dreams.
Include a Title Slide, Introductory Slide, the
7 Steps, and a Closing Slide.
Put in animations, clipart, and slide
transitions.
Print handouts, 3 per page. Do not print if
you do not know how to print handouts!!
6. How do you want to be remembered?
Served or helped others Influenced people
Mastered a skill Fixed something broken
Great listener Began a new project
Good decision maker Was a good decision
Worked to bring beauty to maker
world Brought people closer to
Developed or built God
something Develop or build
Able to acquire possessions something
or money Able to acquire
Began a new project or possessions or money
business Began a new project or
Improved something, made business
it better Was in the spotlight
gained recognition.
7. KNOWLEDGE OR SUBJECT SKILLS-Nouns
Computers—digital design—dance—math—language—
drawing—fashion—tools—plants—animals
FUNCTIONAL OR TRANSFERABLE SKILLS-Verbs
Cooking—analyzing—planning—mentoring—gathering
info—inventing—organizing—problem solving—
adapting—evaluating—retrieving info
SELF MANAGING SKILLS/TRAITS-Adjectives or
Adverbs
Systematic—thorough—calm—persistent— creative—
resourceful—accurate—cooperative—dependable—
realistic—self-motivated—unique
Think of your life story…when you gained skills
Divide into: Physical, Mental, or Interpersonal Skills
8. How do you deal with time and
promptness?
How do you deal with people and
emotions?
How do you deal with authority and being
told what to do?
How do you deal with supervision and
being told how to do?
How do you deal with crises or problems?
Traits describe how you perform your transferable skills…
11. Subjects People Problems
Studied in high school What problems or
Learned@home needs do you like to
Learned on job help people with?
Clothing, food, housin
Learned in free time
g, languages, personal
Things,
Tools, or services, family and
Products consumer
economics, auto/retai
Do you love to deal with l
handle, construct, opera sales, medicine/healt
te, market, or repair: h, physical
Bicycles, clothing, comp fitness, child
uters, gardens, machine development, enterta
s, phones, toys, trains, inment, training, ani
planes, wood mals or plants
12. Realistic Investigative
R=like I= curious, like to
nature, athletics, or investigate or analyze
tools and machinery
Artistic data or people or how
things work
A=
artistic, imaginative, an
d creative
Social Enterprising
S=bent on trying to E=start up projects or
help, teach, or serve organizations, and/or
people. be upfront as to
Conventional entertain, influence, pe
C= detailed work, and like rsuade, or sell to people
to complete tasks or
projects
13. Under what circumstances do you do your most effective work?
Distasteful working Keys to my
conditions effectiveness
Too noisy Some noise, but not too
Too much supervision quiet
No windows Moderate amount of
Working at 6 am supervision
Working at night Outdoors part of the day
Work from 9-5 am
Earn commission
No people around Steady paycheck
With sick people People around sometimes
Healthy people
14. At
what level What salary would
would you like to you like to be
work? aiming for?
Boss, CEO, Owner Minimum, barely
Manager getting by
Head of a team Maximum
Member of a team Figure out expenses
Work with a partner
from budget and
how much you need
Works alone as an
to make to survive
employee or
consultant
15. Adventure Chance to exercise
Challenge leadership
Respect Chance to be
Influence
creative
Chance to make
Popularity
decisions
Fame
Chance to use my
Power
expertise
Intellectual
Chance to help
stimulation others
16. Where would you like to live and work, if you had a
choice (besides where you are now)?
Geographical Factors important to you
Compile a list of positive and negatives of places you’ve
lived in or visited in the past and where you live now.
Google the city of your choice’s Chamber of Commerce
to find out more information.
Include a picture of the place on your slide.
17. Take two career assessments and report results
Myers-Briggs- http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
Holland Code-
http://www.roguecc.edu/Counseling/HollandCodes/test.asp
Career Test- http://123test.com/career-test/ (15 PICTURE
Questions)
Keirsey Temperament Sorter-
http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/instruments2.aspx
Self assessment on Coin3.com (40 Questions)
User: Student ID#, PW: dob (052894), Site id: CA15275
Take an IQ Test- http://www.123test.com/iq-test/ (10 Questions)
Research careers on Coin3 or Occupational Outlook Handbook
Pick A Career!!
Include a picture of the career on this slide.