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Career Readiness Is a Human Process

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Are You Ready to Nudge Current Practices?

  1. Establish a common career language
  2. Ensure ongoing career conversations
  3. Better understand the students' perspectives

Career Conversations are Ongoing

Ensure Ongoing Career Conversations

Ensure Ongoing Career Conversations

Ensure Ongoing Career Conversations

Staff families, and students learn a pattern of 

career management questions 

to last a lifetme

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Establish a Common Career Language

Ensure Ongoing Career Conversations

Ensure Ongoing Career Conversations

The RIASEC provides a common career language for 

1) describing your workplace interests and 

2) navigating shifting career options

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Step 1: Use a Dialogic Process to Update Your Career Story

What is a dialogic process?

A dialogic process promotes a structured dialogue - a disucssion that builds in a logical way.


Transformational career readiness is rooted in a person's identity. How someone sees themselves, their growth, their options, and their future affects their decisions. 


Using a dialogic process strengthens the vocational dignity of a person. In other words, career readiness is a habit of reflection that develops over time, though a dii.

Step 2: Use the RIASEC to Bring Vividness to Your Story

What is the RIASEC?

John Holland developed the RIASEC themes to help identify effective worker-fit. The RIASEC  describes both the "worker" and the "work environment". For individuals, the RIASEC can describe personal interests and preferences. For jobs and tasks, the RIASEC can describe the style of work that is needed. Thus, the RIASEC helps at all levels of career management. These themes (R,I,A,S,E,C) provide a vocabulary for how a person sees themselves now, how they are growing their skills, what options are available, and where they are headed. 


The RIASEC provides the language for discussions and dialogue about ever-shifting job opportunities and career decisions.

Common Career Language in Six Words

Realistic

Investigative

Investigative

"Doers"

Work with machines, tools, plants, animals, or the environment. 


Likes to

  • Build and repair things
  • Being physically active
  • Be in the outdoors
  • Work with animals
  • Operate tools machines

Investigative

Investigative

Investigative

"Thinkers"

Observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate, and use math and science to solve problems  


Likes to

  • Understand why things happen
  • Research to find answers
  • Solve problems using math or science
  • Think deeply

Artistic

Investigative

Artistic

"Creators"

Work in unstructured environments using imagination, art, and creative self-expression


Likes to

  • Sketch, draw, paint
  • Play a musical instrument
  • Sing, act, dance
  • Design fashion or interiors

Social

Enterprising

Artistic

"Helpers"

Work with others to listen, understand, empathize, inform, help teach, or heal. 


Likes to

  • Help people with problems
  • Do volunteer work
  • Teach or train
  • Take care of others

Enterprising

Enterprising

Enterprising

"Persuaders"

Influence, persuade, sell, compete, or lead people and projects to achieve organizational goals. 


Likes to

  • Debate ideas
  • Persuade people
  • Start businesses
  • Sell things

Conventional

Enterprising

Enterprising

"Organizers"

Work with data and systems, accurate, organized, and follows instructions. 


Likes to

  • Find patterns in data
  • Organize collections
  • Keep accurate records
  • Follow a set plan
  • Create structures and systems
  • Be responsible for details

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