Self Discovery, Career Exploration, and Application Unit
The conclusion of this unit all Learning Through Internship Students will be expected to answer the following questions in an organized presentation. This presentation will count as a summative grade. Each of the following questions is worth 20 points on the summative. Your presentation is expected to address each of the following.
The rubric for this unit is found at the bottom of this page. Please scroll down to ensure that your work meets the expectations of this summative.
Self Discovery: Interests, Values, and Personality
Interests:
Values:
You are expected to write and submit a journal entry in which you first, summarize the results of this inventory and then, explain how the results apply to your current internship and your future career plans.
Personality:
Synthesis of Results:
You are expected to write and submit a journal entry in which you first, summarize your results of the mini-MBTI. Then, you will explain what careers your personality type matches with based on the chart you have been given. Next, why is understanding your personality relevant for a class about internships and future career planning? Finally, you will explain how the results apply to your current internship experience and your future career plans.
- How have you changed as a result of this study of self and exploration of career?
- What do you know about yourself and others around you as a result of this study? Specifically related to interests, values, and personality.
- What did you need to learn and what did you actually learn about the careers that you are currently exploring?
- How will you apply what you have learned to your current internship experience and to your next steps? (What goals from your list does the work from this unit apply to? How is this work related to your internship goals? What progress are you making at this point in the internship towards these goals?)
The rubric for this unit is found at the bottom of this page. Please scroll down to ensure that your work meets the expectations of this summative.
Self Discovery: Interests, Values, and Personality
Interests:
- Data, People, Things, Ideas
- Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social Enterprising, and Conventional
- You are expected to complete 3 of the 5 assessments listed below. There are no right or wrong answers on these inventories. Your job is to relax and answer them as honestly as you can. You do not want to think about how someone else might want you to answer or expect you to answer. You have to answer with your own gut reaction. Some of these you may have already done. Feel free to retake these assessments or use your previous results and make connections to other assessments.
- Naviance: Career Cluster Inventory
- Naviance: Career Interest Profile
- Ohio Means Jobs: Career Cluster Inventory
- Ohio Means Jobs: Career Profile
- Self-Directed-Search
Values:
- What’s in Your Wallet?
- You are expected to complete the Work Values Inventory. Having a high value for each category or a low value for each category will mean that you’ll have a difficult time interpreting the results. Be sure you are “picky” and consider the meaning of each value to you in your life.
You are expected to write and submit a journal entry in which you first, summarize the results of this inventory and then, explain how the results apply to your current internship and your future career plans.
Personality:
- Personality Powerpoint Presenation
- Where you focus your energy and attention?
- How you take in information?
- How you make decisions?
- How you deal with the outer world?
- MBTI Scenarios from Do What you Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You through The Secrets of Personality Type
- Where do you find yourself along the continuum?
- Take the mini-MBTI, Analysis of Results, Use the chart to match with careers
Synthesis of Results:
You are expected to write and submit a journal entry in which you first, summarize your results of the mini-MBTI. Then, you will explain what careers your personality type matches with based on the chart you have been given. Next, why is understanding your personality relevant for a class about internships and future career planning? Finally, you will explain how the results apply to your current internship experience and your future career plans.
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment that help you better understand yourself and the people you live or work with in terms of preferences. You are the only person who can determine your preferences. To learn more about the MBTI and Careers click here.
You will not be taking the actual MBTI through this unit of study. Here is a free-online version that will introduce you to the test.
You will not be taking the actual MBTI through this unit of study. Here is a free-online version that will introduce you to the test.
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Career Exploration
Students will connect an internship to professional and personal future direction through exploration, experience, and reflection.
Students will begin to explore careers by applying what they learned in the Self-Discovery portion of this unit. Consider the question,
What careers are on my current list? What did I learn about my self that I can apply to my future career goals? What do I still have to learn?
Today you will be asked to generate 3 key questions that you will be researching, and ultimately answering. Below submit your three questions and your plan for finding the answers to Mrs. Soeder
Students will begin to explore careers by applying what they learned in the Self-Discovery portion of this unit. Consider the question,
What careers are on my current list? What did I learn about my self that I can apply to my future career goals? What do I still have to learn?
Today you will be asked to generate 3 key questions that you will be researching, and ultimately answering. Below submit your three questions and your plan for finding the answers to Mrs. Soeder
The next step is to design a plan and conduct needed research so that you can as fully as possible answer the 3 questions you identified above. Below you will find a collection of resources which can give you specific information about career and colleges to explore.
MyFuture.com is designed to help you get stats on everything from job growth to job requirements.
O*Net is designed to provide you with detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development, and HR professionals, students, researchers and more.
Ohio Means Jobs - allows you to research specific careers and save searched occupations to your backpack.
Naviance - allows you to research specific colleges and save searched schools to a "favorites" list.
Finally, you should return to the top of this page and address the questions found on the various bullet points in the context of a presentation. You are to develop additional slides to add to your existing power point which directly addresses the Self-Discovery, Career Exploration, and your Internship Goals. Below is a rubric you can use as you create your powerpoint. This is the summative grade for this unit.
MyFuture.com is designed to help you get stats on everything from job growth to job requirements.
O*Net is designed to provide you with detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development, and HR professionals, students, researchers and more.
Ohio Means Jobs - allows you to research specific careers and save searched occupations to your backpack.
Naviance - allows you to research specific colleges and save searched schools to a "favorites" list.
Finally, you should return to the top of this page and address the questions found on the various bullet points in the context of a presentation. You are to develop additional slides to add to your existing power point which directly addresses the Self-Discovery, Career Exploration, and your Internship Goals. Below is a rubric you can use as you create your powerpoint. This is the summative grade for this unit.