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

• Receive tips for when their dream job does not yet exist

• Identify resources for researching entry-level and transition jobs

• Identify resources for researching and preparing for their dream job

• Workshop Presenter

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-I

• Downloads:

  • City of Chino Hills

    • PowerPoint File

    • Workshop Handout

    • Information Flyer

• Other Workshop Handouts:

  • So How Do You Find and Get Your Dream Job?

  • Different Types of Counselors

  • Success

  • Reaching Career Goals
    

• Case Studies of People Who Have Achieved Their Dream:

  • Woman founded and runs a sanctuary caring for over 110 wildcats

• (Introductory Video)
  

• In-House Handouts:

  • The Journey

  • Aligning Goals

  • Purposeful Living

  • Job Search Websites

  • Values Clarification Tools – Consisting of:

• Work Values Inventory

  1. Success

  2. Higher Education Research Tools – Consisting of:

     • Understanding Educational Systems

     • School Research Project

  3. Career Exploration Research Tools  – consisting of:

     • Researching Career Interests (Using Appropriate Sources of Information)

     • Basic Career Research – Options Exploration – (Part 1)

     • Career Research Assignment – In Depth (Part 2)

  4. Setting Effective Goals

  5. One Step At a Time

  6. Rapidly-Changing World

  7. Understanding Labor Market Trends

  8. Decision Making Variables

  9. Organizational Cultural Fit

  10. Locus of Control

  11. Happenstance

  12. Difficult Choices

  13. Timeline

  14. Job Placement Resources

  15. Opportunity vs. Security

  16. Generalist vs Specialist

  17. CDDQ (Career Decision Making Difficulty Questionnaire)

  18. Hertzberg & Maslow

  19. Informational Interview

  20. When Skills Are No Longer in Demand

  21. Life-long Learning Options

  22. Volunteer Interests

  23. Networking Savvy

  24. Start Your Own Business

  25. Identifying Potential Survival Jobs

• Helpful Links:

• Career Development Theory Information:

  • Career Development Theory (Self Concept) PowerPoint

• Find a Career Counselor:

  • Need career help? – NCDA career practitioner search

  1. Taking Assessments:

     • Career Onestop – Self Assessments – (Free and Accessible)

     • Gladeo (Career exploration platform)

     • Take Assessments with Workshop Author

     • O*NET Interest Profiler
       

• Research Career Information:

  • Occupational Outlook Handbook

• O*NET Online (Database search)

• Search for Professional Associations

• Research Labor Market Information

• NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)

  1. Search for Remote Work Opportunities

  2. Search for Entry-Level Jobs

• Research Training Programs

  • Career Coach (California Community College) – Research education/career options

• Help Starting a Business:

  • Help Starting a For-Profit Business (SBA)

  • Help Starting a Non-Profit Business

  1. Miscellaneous:

     • Purpose Venn Diagram

     • 4 Tips For Chasing Your Dream Career

• 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:

    • MBTI (personality compatibility — one key to career success)

    • Strong (Interest compatibility — one key to career success)

  • 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

•  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