Workshop: How to Get Your Dream Career: Identifying Pathways to Your Dream Job
- Overview:
This workshop will introduce participants to a four-phase process for finding and achieving their dream career. Participants will be able to identify four different types of jobs that will prepare them to achieve that dream. They will also receive tips for what to do when their dream job does not yet exist. They will receive resources for researching and preparing for potential entry-level and transition jobs.
- Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
- Discover the process of finding a dream job
- Identify the four phases of finding their dream job
- Identify four types of jobs to pursue based their goals
- Identify resources for researching entry-level and transition jobs
- Identify resources for researching and preparing for their dream job
- Workshop Presenter
- Downloads:
- City of Chino Hills
- Other Workshop Handouts:
- Case Studies of People Who Have Achieved Their Dream:
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- Higher Education Research Tools – Consisting of:
- Career Exploration Research Tools – consisting of:
- Setting Effective Goals
- One Step At a Time
- Rapidly-Changing World
- Understanding Labor Market Trends
- Decision Making Variables
- Organizational Cultural Fit
- Locus of Control
- Happenstance
- Difficult Choices
- Timeline
- Job Placement Resources
- Opportunity vs. Security
- Generalist vs Specialist
- CDDQ (Career Decision Making Difficulty Questionnaire)
- Hertzberg & Maslow
- Informational Interview
- When Skills Are No Longer in Demand
- Life-long Learning Options
- Volunteer Interests
- Networking Savvy
- Start Your Own Business
- Identifying Potential Survival Jobs
- Helpful Links:
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- Career Development Theory Information:
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- Research Career Information:
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- Research Training Programs
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- Help Starting a Business:
- Miscellaneous:
- Related Articles:
- “Play Makes Us Human: When Work is Play”
- “Breaking Into Any Field Without Enough Experience”
- “How to Find Meaning in a Job That Isn’t Your ‘True Calling'”
- “Why making a backup plan may set you up to fail”
- “How To Get Through ‘The Cave’ To Your Dream Job”
- Slash Careers: “How to Create a Career without a Full-Time Job” (based on book below: “One Person/Multiple Careers”)
- Related Videos:
- Assessments:
- 4 Skills & 4 Steps to a Successful Career
- Success in the New Economy (2018 version)
- Sequel Careers (Changing careers without starting over)
- Entitlement Creed
- Why Changing Careers Is SO Hard (Importance of connecting and networking)
- How to Tell If This Company Suits Me
- Importance of Timing & Life Experience Drives Passion: The ‘Never Again’ Movement
- Slope of the Curve: Technology is Changing the World of Work
- Assessments:
- Related Books:
- Make Your Job a Calling
- Let Your Life Speak
- One Person/Multiple Careers: The Original Guide to the Slash Career
- 101 Weird Ways to Make Money: Cricket Farming, Repossessing Cars, and Other Jobs With Big Upside and Not Much Competition
- The Resilience Factor
- Career Errors
- Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
- Make Your Job a Calling
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