Description BENCHMARK: CAREER SELF-ASSESSMENT AND EXPLORATION ASSIGNMENT UNFORMATTED ATTACHMENT PR ...
Description BENCHMARK: CAREER SELF-ASSESSMENT AND EXPLORATION ASSIGNMENT UNFORMATTED ATTACHMENT PREVIEW COUC 522 BENCHMARK: CAREER SELF-ASSESSMENT AND EXPLORATION ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OVERVIEW The purpose of this assignment is to experience the complexities of the career counseling and planning process and to complete an individual career counseling and planning cycle. This assignment provides an opportunity to administer, score, and interpret career assessment results. This assignment will also provide students with an opportunity to engage in an occupational exploration process using career technology information and resources. This process will introduce students to a process that can assist future clients with their career exploration. INSTRUCTIONS Divide your paper using the headings located in the Benchmark: Career Self-Assessment and Exploration Template (without Roman numerals) and follow these guidelines: • • • • • Write a 10–12-page paper (not including title page, abstract, or references) Include a title page, abstract, and a minimum of 3 sources including the O*Net Please follow current APA formatting Your paper may be written in first person. Save your paper in Microsoft Word format as: Last name_First initial_Career_Selfassessment_ Paper (e.g., Doe_J_ Career_Self-Assessment_ Paper). Part I: Career Self-Assessment For this part of your paper, you will use the results obtained from Steps I-III of the Career Inventory Activity Assignment. The Career Inventory Activity Assignment Instructions can be found in Career Inventory Activity Assignment prompt in Canvas. You will use the results of the Decision-Making Factors Survey (Horton, 2009), O*Net Interest Profiler and the Value Sort from The Career Inventory Activity to conceptualize your own career development. Part I will be 4-6 pages. Please cite your sources. Part II: Occupational Exploration After reviewing the results of the Decision-Making Factors Survey, O*NET Interest Profiler and Value Sort, select one potential career that you want to further explore based on your top Holland scores and/or identified values. Please gather information about the career and report that information in this paper. Part II will be approximately 3 pages. Please cite your sources. Part III: Practical Application For this part of your paper, you will respond to a career counseling scenario. Use relevant ethical codes and ethical decision-making models to demonstrate how you will navigate a client who has differing values from your own. Part III will be approximately 3 pages. Please cite your sources. Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool. COUC 522 CAREER INVENTORY ACTIVITY ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OVERVIEW This Career Inventory Activity Assignment will guide you through the steps of completing various career development self-assessments. You will be exposed to the O*NET Online career resource center which houses career self-assessment exploration tools to help discover work activities and occupations of interest to you. In addition to assessing your interests and values you will have an opportunity to assess your decision-making factors and spiritual discernment approach as it applies to your career development. The information gained from this assignment will assist you with gaining a deeper understanding of your career direction and values that have influenced your past, current and future career path. The results of your assessments during this activity will be used in the Benchmark Career SelfAssessment & Exploration Assignment. This assignment experience will also contribute to your skills used when counseling others along their career development path. INSTRUCTIONS You will complete the following steps in order to prepare for and complete the Benchmark Career Self-Assessment & Exploration Assignment: STEP I: Spiritual Discernment • Read Discerning Spiritual Discernment: Assessing Current Approaches for Understanding God’s Will (Horton, 2009). This article can be found in Module 2. • Complete the Decision-Making Factors Survey found in the Appendix of the article. • Identify the factors you identify as “very important” and use these results to determine the Spiritual Discernment approach you identify with. • Use these results to answer the prompts in the Benchmark Career Self-Assessment and Exploration Template. STEP II: The O*NET Interest Profiler Complete the following directions for taking the O*NET Interest Profiler 1. Click on the link: O*NET Interest Profiler. Follow the directions (click “Next”) and take the O*NET Interest Profiler. Page 1 of 6 COUC 522 2. Once you have completed the O*NET Interest Profiler, record your numeric results for each of the 6 Holland codes. Print the results. 3. Read the Explore the Job Zones information to determine your preferred job zone. You may print the information. Page 2 of 6 COUC 522 4. Select your preferred Job Zone and click “Next.” Page 3 of 6 COUC 522 5. Read the Interest Profiler Potential Careers. Explore any careers that may interest you. If there are no careers that interest you, click the “Find More Careers” option. 6. Make sure that you can identify the following from Step 1: • • • • • Your primary interest area (highest score), Your secondary interest area, Your current job zone, Your future job zone, and Identify at least 2 occupations and their O*NET-SOC Code matching your primary interest area. 7. Save the information from this assignment to complete the Benchmark Career SelfAssessment and Exploration Assignment. Page 4 of 6 COUC 522 STEP III: The Value Sort 1. Value Sort Step 1: What I Value Most... From the list of values (both work-related and personal) found below, select the 10 that are most important to you as guides for how to behave or as components of a valued way of life. Feel free to add any values of your own to this list, but only identify 10 values when making your final selection. Write down or circle the 10 values. List of Values: Achievement Friendships Physical challenge Advancement and promotion Growth Pleasure Adventure Having a family Power and authority Affection (love and caring) Helping other people Privacy Arts Helping society Public service Challenging problems Honesty Purity Change and variety Independence Quality of what I take part in Close relationships Influencing others Quality relationships Community Inner harmony Recognition (respect from others, status) Competence Integrity Religion Competition Intellectual status Reputation Cooperation Involvement Responsibility and accountability Country Job tranquility Security Creativity Knowledge Self-respect Decisiveness Leadership Serenity Democracy Location Sophistication Ecological awareness Loyalty Stability Economic security Market position Status Effectiveness Meaningful work Supervising others Efficiency Merit Time freedom Ethical practice Money Truth Excellence Nature Excitement Wisdom Wealth Being around people who are open and honest Fast living Order (tranquility, stability, conformity) Personal development Financial gain Freedom Fame Work under pressure Work with others Working alone Page 5 of 6 COUC 522 2. Value Sort Step 2: Elimination. 1. Now that you have identified 10 values, imagine that you are only permitted to have 5. Which 5 would you give up? Cross them off. 2. Now imagine that you are only permitted 4. Which would you give up? Cross it off. 3. Now cross off another value to bring your list down to 3. 4. Cross off another value, to bring your list down to 2. 5. Finally cross off 1 of your 2 values. What is the top value on your list? 3. Click on the O*NET: My Next Move link, found under the Resources section in the assignment prompt. Find the “I want to be a . . .” search box. Describe your dream career in a few words. Keeping your principle value in mind, find 2 occupations that are most consistent with your principle values. 4. You will need to identify the following information for the Benchmark Career SelfAssessment and Exploration Assignment: • • • • • Your primary personal/work value; Your second, third, fourth, and fifth personal/work values; Values 6–10, if important to you; Your feelings during the process of eliminating or prioritizing values; and Select 2 occupations (and their codes) that are consistent with your values. STEP IV: Combining the Results and Exploring a Career Directions 1. Using the O*NET Interest Profiler and the Value Sort results found in Steps II and III, identify: • • • Your primary and secondary interests, Your 3 highest work values, and Your current and future work zones. 2. Based on both your interest and values results, identify one O*NET occupation you want to explore. Record the O*NET-SOC Code and Title. STEP V: Complete the Benchmark Career Self-Assessment & Exploration Assignment. Use the results from this activity to conceptualize your career development process, explore a potential occupation, and apply your training to a case scenario. Follow the prompts in the Benchmark Career Self-Assessment & Exploration Template as a guide for conceptualizing your results and writing your paper. Page 6 of 6 Purchase answer to see full attachment User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.
