Introduction to Career Management

•Understand what is meant by ‘Career Management’

•Review your current position

•Look ahead at the skills and knowledge you will gain in Career Management whilst at college

Imagine you are 5 years old again.What do you want to be when you

grow up?

Imagine you are 5 years old again.What do you want to be when you

grow up?

Why do ideas change as people grow up?

Why might career ideas change through life?

Career Management

• Taking control of your future and making your own decisions

• Taking responsibility for finding out about the areas you are interested in

• Reflecting on your choices and your progress towards your goals

• Being flexible to changing your goals or your strategies to working towards them

• Adapting to changes that are forced on you and beyond your control

Decide what you want to do

Career Management

Research & Plan how

Make it happen

Goal

Decide what you want to do

Career Management

Plan how

Make it happen

Goal

Need for change

People who are good at managing their careers can…

People who are good at managing their careers can…

• Research Ideas (and read what they find thoroughly)

• Plan Ahead

• Be Realistic

• Ask for Help

• Review Progress

• Persevere

• Present themselves at their best on paper and in person

• Make the most of opportunities available to them

TASKS TODAY

1.Distribute and organise careers files

2.Look at the careers checklist

3. Assess your starting point in career planning

Assessing your starting point

Next week…People who are good at managing their

careers can…

• Research Ideas

• Plan Ahead

• Be Realistic

• Ask for Help

• Review Progress

• Persevere

• Present themselves at their best on paper and in person

• Make the most of opportunities available to them