Chapter 7:
Decision-making
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Let’s discuss
“Life is the sum of all your
choices.”
~Albert Camus
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What decisions are next?
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School
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Graduate school
Courses
Academic
Decisions
Major
Study abroad
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Warren Goldswain
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Decisions during
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college
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Before entering workforce
Finding job
Other options
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Lifelong learning and
ongoing career
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Improve your decision-making skills
Four Decision-Making Approaches
Logical thinking
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Trusting your intuition
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Pleasing others
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Avoidance or
procrastination
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Gathering facts and analyzing data
Assessing outcomes and taking action
Relying on emotions or intuition
Feels "right“
Outcomes or goals presented by others
May not match your goals
Can initially feel good
Miss the opportunity to be in control of outcome
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CASVE cycle
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Tech savvy:
Too much information about everything
How do you choose?
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Only the best will be right choice
Good-enough will suffice
More choices
Higher expectations
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Greater disappointment
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Your choices CAN feel better
Save time for choices
Spend time on the big
Create your own
that matter
questions
alternatives
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Create Opportunity from Unexpected Events
Adapt to new information
Reframe undecidedness
Take advantage of
Chance events can happen
opportunities
any time
Be open-minded
Happenstance Theory
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Choose to be engaged
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Take advantage of opportunities
Before
Remember how you have prepared
During
Remain alert and recognize opportunity
After
Initiate actions to benefit
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Embracing differences: Role Models
Self-efficacy
belief
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one's own
Increased- with
role
capability
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Diminished without role models
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Decisions to make
Major
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Can motivate you to
succeed if interested in
Education or training
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Skill development
throughout lifetime
subject
Educational decisions
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Help you learn unique
set of skills that can be
incorporated into
career
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Work with awareness
Increase maturity
Explore interests
Gap year
Generate relationships
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Build transferable skills
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Options for Gap Year
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From decisions to action
Decision does not mean commitment to long-term career
Good decisions
Increase skills
Mobility
Higher level of
responsibility
Flexibility
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Career decisions require action
Define your interests
Choose appropriate decisions
Narrow choices
Select target jobs/industries
Move toward action steps
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Thought Questions
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Have you identified the decisions you need to make next? What are they?
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Do you feel prepared to start making decisions in your career?
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Can you identify the decisions that seem most difficult to you? What are they?
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