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PA CAREER ZONE Work Importance Profiler

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PA CAREER ZONE Work Importance Profiler

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

Career Education and Work, Career Awareness & Preparation
Related Academic Standards
13.1.11.B 13.1.11.B
Analyze career options based on personal interests, abilities, aptitudes, achievements and goals.
13.2.5.D 13.2.5.D

Identify individualized career portfolio components, such as, but not limited to:

  • Achievements
  • Awards/recognitions
  • Career exploration results
  • Career plans
  • Community service involvement/projects
  • Interests/hobbies
  • Personal career goals
  • Selected school work
  • Self inventories
15.2.12.J 15.2.12.J
Analyze career goals based on, but not limited to, interest, lifestyle, skills, and values in order to transition from high school. Reference Career Education and Work 13.1.11.G, 13.1.11.H
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  • Big Ideas
    Career choice and preparation are lifelong processes based on many influences and using many strategies.
    Change impacts career options and choices.
    Comprehensive planning leads to effective career decisions.
    Interests, aptitudes, and abilities are unique for each individual and play a key role in career choice.
    There is a definitive relationship between education and career planning and choice.
    Understanding and demonstrating workplace skills and knowledge is paramount in the career acquisition process.
  • Concepts
    Differences between short and long term academic goals.
    Factors that impact personal career choices.
    Factors that support career selection.
    Relationship between educational achievement and career success.
    Relationship of changing roles in the workplace to new career opportunities.
    Relationship of personal interests, abilities, and aptitudes to career goals.
    Sources of information required in a career portfolio including personal components, academic history and self-assessment activities.
    Traditional and non-traditional careers.
    Varied sources of career information.
  • Competencies
    Complete and organize the results of a career exploration activity.
    Develop and collect a list of achievements, awards, recognitions and community service involvements.
    Establish a list of short and long range academic goals for the future and share this in a group.
    Identify personal interests, aptitudes and abilities that influence career choice.
    Interview an adult and determine what factors influenced their career choices and how they influenced them.
    Select some career options that are based on your personal interests, abilities, aptitudes, achievements and goals.

Description

Students will take an assessment about what is important to them in a job.  The will discover how much they value achievement, independence, recognition, relationships, support, and working conditions in a job. The students will then get a list of jobs that reflect their values.

This Work Importance Profiler is based on the ONET Work Importance Profiler and is based on the theories of Super which relates to values.  

Students will get a list of five career characteristics.  They should relate the careers characteristics that are important to them and can do so by clikcing on the arrows on the right, or dragging each statement to the proper order. 

Rationale

The purpose of the assessment is to match potential careers to what students value in an occupation.  Once the students have a list of occuapations based on their value system.   They can begin researching those careers to further see which fits them best.

URL or Resource

http://www.pacareerzone.org/wip/

Content Provider or Additional Information

This assessment is provided by the Pennsylvania Career Zone and PDE.  It can be done anonymously or saved to a created account.

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