Start AEDF career counseling model
Stage 1: Assessment:
Learn About YourselfYou want to choose an occupation that fits your unique qualities -- your abilities, talents, needs, values, and interests -- and the life-style you want to live.
Knowing your "unique qualities" is not easy. Learning about yourself is a challenge for everyone. But, the clearer picture you have, the more likely you are to choose a satisfying career.
It is important to write your ideas down. You may find this difficult to do, many do. But, it will make a big difference in your self-understanding. Write down your thoughts and feelings as you do the exercises below. Make a folder to keep your notes and writings.
Here are eight strategies you will find helpful:
Knowing your "unique qualities" is not easy. Learning about yourself is a challenge for everyone. But, the clearer picture you have, the more likely you are to choose a satisfying career.
It is important to write your ideas down. You may find this difficult to do, many do. But, it will make a big difference in your self-understanding. Write down your thoughts and feelings as you do the exercises below. Make a folder to keep your notes and writings.
Here are eight strategies you will find helpful:
- Take tests or inventories that measure your abilities, interests, values, and personality. Write out your reactions to the results. The Career Key's career testis a good place to start, but you should try other valid tests. Learn about your personality and introversion and extroversion, following our tips for success.
- Look carefully at your achievements in school or at work to identify your abilities. If you are a student, for example, which subjects have you done well in, or not so well in? If you work, do the same analysis. What does this tell you about your abilities -- mechanical, verbal, numerical, artistic, and people skills? Be careful not to overlook, or leave out, your abilities. Looking over the 17 Foundation Skills will help you avoid doing this.
- Examine how you use your leisure time -- your hobbies, community projects, activities with social, political, or religious organizations. For each one, write down three headings: Abilities, Interests, and Values. And, under each heading write down your thoughts.
- Talk with a friend or family member who is a good listener.
- Talk with a professional counselor; learn about career counseling.
- Go to Identify Your Skills. There you will learn what the different types of skills are and how to identify those you have. The activities that are described are powerful; they are used by the top consulting firms in the country. You will find them well worth the effort.
- Write an autobiography and identify the themes that represent who you are.
- Write a personal mission statement. In it write: what you want to be, what you want to accomplish in life, and what values or principles you want to guide you.
Stage 2: Exploring:
Ways to Be Job and Work Skills SmartWork is labor for pay. Employers hire you to perform skills. To maximize your power and value in the workplace, it is vital that you,
Read the six principles of the Free Agent Worker for a new perspective on how skills and work fit into your life. You'll gain confidence and optimism as you put yourself and your family first.
Visit our Store to purchase affordable, high-quality career eBooks like, "What Job is Best for Me?" and soon to be released, "How to Be Job and Work Skills Smart!"
- Know what skills are;
- Know the different types of skills;
- Make your list of skills,
- Identify your Motivated Skills, Dependable Strengths,
- Identify the skills employers want,
- Effectively communicate your skills to employers, and
- Strengthen and learn new work skills.
Read the six principles of the Free Agent Worker for a new perspective on how skills and work fit into your life. You'll gain confidence and optimism as you put yourself and your family first.
Visit our Store to purchase affordable, high-quality career eBooks like, "What Job is Best for Me?" and soon to be released, "How to Be Job and Work Skills Smart!"
Stage 3: Deciding:
"What Job is Best for Me?", How to Choose a CareerWondering how to choose a career?Our expert approach using science-based career assessment and discovery will guide you in making a career decision you won't regret.
We've organized it according to the three basic principles of good decision making:
1. Know yourself–your strengths, values, personality, and skillsThis will help you decide which choice best fits you.
We've organized it according to the three basic principles of good decision making:
1. Know yourself–your strengths, values, personality, and skillsThis will help you decide which choice best fits you.
- Discover which Holland personality types you are most like, then match your results with promising careers, college majors and training programs.
- Read about John Holland's Theory of Career Choice to understand how your success and satisfaction in a job, school, or college is related to your personality.
- Do the activities in Learn about Yourself and Identify Your Skills to understand yourself better.
- Explore what career well-being means and how to strengthen yours.
- To learn about occupations, go to Learn More about the Jobs that Interest Me , Learn about Occupations, or Choosing a Military Career.
- Job Satisfaction will help you optimize your job satisfaction when you choose a career or a job. It can also help you analyze why you are dissatisfied in your job, if you are one of the many who are.
- To learn about education options, go to Choose a Career Cluster/Career Field/Career Pathway or Choose a Major or Training Program.
- Is starting your own business an option? Click Self-Employment to explore this idea.
- Are you thinking of strengthening your job skills but you are unsure which ones are important? See The Foundation Skills.
- At High-Quality Decision Making you will learn a method based on many scientific studies that is widely used in business and medical settings. It is easy to understand and use.
- Still not sure? Go to Career Indecision and consider getting help from a professional counselor: Career Counseling
- Tip: Go to our "Choose a Career" listing to see more self-help articles! Also check out our Site Map
Stage 4 : Follow up:
Strengthen and Learn New Work SkillsLearning new work skills and strengthening those you already have are critical to your career success and happiness. They increase your self-confidence, make you more employable, and open new career opportunities.
Being a "Life-Long Learner" is satisfying, and can even be fun, especially when you work on your "motivated skills." So set aside time to build on the skills you have. As a Free Agent Worker, you need to take care of yourself and take charge of your career path.
We recommend that you,
If you click on one of these job titles, you will see the job or work skills (called "Detailed Work Activities") commonly needed to perform it. Be sure to click the + sign to see them all.
You can get some ideas for learning or strengthening these skills by using them in an online search. So one skill under Architect is "estimate cost of engineering projects." Search for "Learn how to estimate cost for engineering projects" and you will likely get some helpful ideas.
Back Home
Being a "Life-Long Learner" is satisfying, and can even be fun, especially when you work on your "motivated skills." So set aside time to build on the skills you have. As a Free Agent Worker, you need to take care of yourself and take charge of your career path.
We recommend that you,
- First, decide on the skills you want to learn or strengthen. Then plan on how to follow through.
- Review the skills you identified earlier in "My Work Skills" list, including the "Foundation Skills" and other transferable skills. Are there any that are missing? Put a star "*" next to those. Strengthening these work skills is especially important for your success.
- Review your "motivated skills." Which one of those might you strengthen? Are there related ones you'd like to learn?
- For more ideas on how to learn a skill, look up your occupation or one that interests you in the O*NET Code Connector.
If you click on one of these job titles, you will see the job or work skills (called "Detailed Work Activities") commonly needed to perform it. Be sure to click the + sign to see them all.
You can get some ideas for learning or strengthening these skills by using them in an online search. So one skill under Architect is "estimate cost of engineering projects." Search for "Learn how to estimate cost for engineering projects" and you will likely get some helpful ideas.
Back Home
Owners : Mona AL khaldi &Huda AL Sulaim