Career Planning 10 Lesson 3.1.3: Reflect on Career Planning

Goals

Lesson 3.3

Warm Up Activity:

Reflect on Career Planning 10

Classroom Expectations

• Be kind
• Ask questions
• Raise your hand to unmute
• Have fun!

02:00

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Vision Board

Look at the image on the right. Have you ever seen a vision board? A vision board contains desires that people have for themselves. For example, the individual who created the board on the right hopes to have a new car, travel, get a dog, and more! Vision boards are collages of pictures, words, and symbols representing what you want to achieve or experience. Think about your hopes and desires for the future, then look at the right. Do you have any in common with the vision board? Use the class padlet to chime in!

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Goals

A goal is something that you are trying to do or achieve. Many people have personal goals and career goals. Compare each of them below.

Personal Goals

Career Goals

Personal goals are specific objectives that you set for yourself to achieve in your personal life. Examples include:

• improving your physical and mental health;
• learning a new hobby;
• traveling;
• improving your financial situation; and
• education and learning.

Career goals are specific objectives that you set for yourself to achieve in your professional life. Examples include:

• learning new skills;
• earning a promotion;
• changing careers;
• starting a business; and
• improving your work-life balance.

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PACT Goals

PACT is a method for setting and achieving goals that focus on the outcome (what you want to achieve) and the output (the actions you will take to achieve your goal). PACT stands for: P: purposeful A: actionable C: continuous T: trackable

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PACT Goals

Meet Darius! He got a C in math last marking period, and he wants to get at least a B this marking period. So, he is considering his options for how to improve his grade. Darius decides to make a PACT goal. His goal reads: "I will attend all of my guided math lessons for the entire marking period."

lesson 3.3: Reflection on CP 10

Reflect

To reflect means to think about something carefully. Reflecting on your experience in Career Planning 10 is essential because it can help you gain self-awareness, clarify and set goals, develop skills, make informed decisions, and continuously improve your career planning process. In Career Planning 10, you learned the following topics:

• letter of recommendations and requests for them
• job applications
• career advancement and retention
• time management strategies
• career plans

lesson 3.3: Reflection on CP 10

Reflection Questions

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Consider the following reflection questions. Respond to the question of your choice using the class padlet.

• Consider your experience requesting a letter of recommendation. How did it feel, and what did you learn from the process?
• Reflect on the mock job application. What were your strengths, and where do you see room for improvement in your application materials?
• In what ways did the discussions on career advancement and retention shape your understanding of long-term career success?
• How has the knowledge and skills you gained about time management impacted your daily routines and productivity?
• What specific insights did you gain from creating or updating your career plan? Did your career goals evolve during the course?

That's it, and that's all!!!

PurposefulYour goal should have a specific purpose that is easily identifiable and meaningful to you. When you are working toward a purposeful goal, you know what you want to do and why you want to do it. Having a purposeful goal can help you stay motivated. For example, if you have a goal to improve your grades, your purpose might be to qualify for a scholarship or to feel more confident in your academic abilities.

Actionable Have you ever set a goal that you cannot do yet? For example, maybe your goal is to become a lawyer one day. You cannot do this yet because you have many years of schooling to go through first. Sometimes, people set big goals that they cannot do yet. PACT goals can be big goals, but you should still be able to take action on them now and take one step at a time to make progress toward your goal. You want your goals to be realistic and attainable.

Continuous Continuous goals allow you to follow a predictable pattern or routine rather than require you to follow an intricate plan that you might become easily frustrated or confused by. It is important that you make continuous effort and progress toward your goal. For example, to improve your soccer skills, regular weekly practice and training are necessary to see continuous improvement.

Trackable The goals that you set should be measurable and trackable so you can monitor your progress. It should be easy for you to tell whether or not you are making meaningful progress. For example, if you are trying to read more books, you can set a goal to read a certain number of pages per week and track your progress on a calendar.