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[Audio] LOCE 411 Career decision making and career information MRS DEIDRE VAN WYK DEIDRECLAUDIAVANWYK@GMAIL.COM STUDENT NUMBER 26448254.

[Audio] Study Unit 4.1 Career decision making and career information STUDY UNIT Outcomes  define career decision making and career indecision;  distinguish between prescriptive/normative and descriptive/behavioural decision making; and  use the narrative method in the South African context to guide learners struggling with career indecision..

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[Audio] UNIT 4.1 Use the information on the slides that follow as well as the reference to resources provided to answer the self-study activities from UNIT 4.1 Please note: these are only summaries from the original source. You still need to read/study the original source..

[Audio] Prescribed reading material  Jassat, ch 14, Career information. pdf  Hay, Chapter 23 In Nel, M LO for SA teachers.pdf  Patton, chapter 5-systems; Stead & Watson, career decision making Chapter 8.pdf  Maree, Chapter 1. Shaping the story, the promise of narrative career counselling.pdf.

[Audio] Jassat, ch 14, Career information  Career information is any and all information about occupations and the working world  Consist of educational, occupational and psychosocial details relating to jobs  Important because of career decision making process which has an influence on later job success  Research has show that youth value work highly , inspires further education and better opportunities for employment.

[Audio] Patton, chapter 5-systems; Stead & Watson, career decision making Chapter 8  Career decision making strategies comprise of 1. A decision making 2. A situation that necessitates a decision being made 3. Appropriate information 4. At least 2 options 5. Several outcomes 6. A Strategy 7. A commitment  Viewed as being normative, prescriptive or descriptive.

[Audio] Career decision making continue: Normative decision making  Janis and Mann ( 1977) provided 7 ideal procedural criteria that reflect optimal CDM: 1 Wide variety of alternative courses 2. Full range of objectives 3. The Cost and the risk 4. Extensive search for new information 5. New information weighted up 6. Consequences re-evaluated 7. Course of plan is selected and implemented.

[Audio] Prescriptive decision making models  Gati's sequential model: The individual has to define the problem, identify the aspects, rank the aspects, identify acceptable level of aspect, eliminate alternatives with reason, list advantages and disadvantages of the occupation, examine the advantages and disadvantages of the occupation and steps to implement preferred alternative. The model is criticised as it does not reflect the real world in which career decisions are made..

[Audio] Descriptive decision-making strategies and models  Based on the good enough principle rather than optimal principle  These models does reflect how decisions are made not how they should be made.  The strategies include satisficing, quasi-satisficing and incrementalism  The styles include rational, intuitive and dependent.

[Audio] Maree, Chapter 1. Shaping the story, the promise of narrative career counselling  3 areas are explored narrative, appropriate strategies and techniques and also the extending the approach to other aspects of career  Narrative career counseling is twofold: larger story of one's life and to become a more powerful agent in this story  Career values - To satisfy some values you might have to sacrifice other values  Aim is to script a person in his or her own life story.  Approach has personal meaning  Standard, objective career counselling is incorporated.

[Audio]  The narrative approach has three characteristics 1. People tend towards and often achieve unifying story of life 2. That lives lived in accordance with a constructive, unifying plot of life is more meaningful, productive and fulfilling 3. Combine the two characteristics and reproduce in practice what is evident in life..

[Audio] 1. Read Stead & Watson, Chapter 8 ( Career decision-making and career indecision) and answer the following questions: 1.1 What does career decision-making strategies comprise of? 1.2 What is meant by career indecision? 1.3 Give examples of what factors career indecision is related to. 2. Read Hay, Chapter 23. 4.1 (second basic skill- the ability to make smart decisions) and differentiate between prescriptive/normative and descriptive/behavioural decision making? Provide examples of the different models used for each. 3. Read Maree, Chapter 1 and explain how you will help a learner struggling with career indecision by using the narrative method. REFLECTION ACTIVITIES.

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[Audio] Career decision making  Be realist  Careers that have emerged are in fields of biotechnology, laser, robotic, information technology, telecommunications, information management, computer, aerospace, medical technology and superconductivity technology. Self-employment and small business developments are becoming a more often norm than big business .

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[Audio] 1. Read Stead & Watson, Chapter 8 ( Career decision-making and career indecision) and answer the following questions:  1.1. What does career decision-making strategies comprise of? Stead and Watson ( 2009: 137) states that career decision-making strategies comprise of:  A decision maker  A situation that necessitates a decision being made  Appropriate information that is internal and external to the individual  At least two choices or alternative actions  Several outcomes or consequences that are based on the probability of an event materialising and its value or utility to the decision maker  A strategy that is based on organised information  A commitment to carry out the decision.

[Audio]  1.2. What is meant by career indecision? It refers to the difficulties an individual has in making a career decision. ( Stead & Watson, 2009: 146). However, the authors note that career indecision may not always be viewed as a negative term it could be that one may be undecided when one is merely keeping one's options open. 1.3. Give examples of what factors career indecision is related to Low self esteem A diffuse identity Trait anxiety State anxiety Socioeconomic status Gender Adolescent-parent separation difficulties Language A lack of future structure Neurotic disorder Self-efficacy Identity moratorium and diffusion Perception of career barriers Attachment anxiety Low emotional intelligence Search for meaning in life.

[Audio] 2. Read Hay, Chapter 23. 4. 1 (second basic skill- the ability to make smart decisions) and differentiate between prescriptive/normative and descriptive/behavioural decision making? Prescriptive decision making The model suggest that learners draw up table and compare careers in terms of various criteria. It works with hard facts and the advantages and disadvantages of each are weighted and calculated to help the learner come to a decision Part of modern way of decision making Descriptive decision making This module is unstructured, emotive-intuitive and qualitative. The theorist involved in this believes that a very few learners will make decisions about careers in a prescriptive way and that most individuals connect intuitively with a career based on emotion Part of post modern way of decision making Behavioural decision making People make decisions on minimal requirements and that are good enough. The decision makers are satisfied but does not maximise Descriptive model.

[Audio] 3. Read Maree, Chapter 1 and explain how you will help a learner struggling with a career indecision by using the narrative method. In using the narrative method, I would question the learner about past experience that he or she had difficulty to overcome. Often learners would mention a traumatic/cheerful experience that left an imprint on the learners. I would ask the learner questions as to what stood out on the day, what emotions he felt and helping the learner see his life pattern unfold..

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