Your Decision-Making Process

SPEAK WITH A CAREER ADVISOR

No matter where you are in your career development journey, you will likely be faced with a number of questions regarding career choices over your lifetime. These may include: • What occupations relate to my major? • How can I market my skills to employers? • How can I find a job related to my field of study? • Should I seek employment with my current degree or continue on for additional training? • Which employers will hire me?

Career Advisors can help you explore career options, formulate your job search strategy, develop a résumé or curriculum vitae (CV), prepare for interviews, or deal with more general career concerns. Career Advisors will assist you in making a plan that fits your career needs and goals. For more information, visit career.fsu.edu/ careeradvising or call 850.644.6431. For additional assistance, complete the “Choose Your Path” module of ProfessioNole Ready: career.fsu.edu/ students/professionoleready.

TAKE SDS 3340, INTRO TO CAREER DEVELOPMENT

SDS 3340: Introduction to Career Development provides an opportunity to learn and develop the necessary skills to engage in life and career planning. It is a variable credit course, meaning it can be taken for one, two, or three credit hours. For more information, visit career. fsu.edu/undergraduate-students/plan-your-career.

The course is divided into three units:

1. Unit I, Career Concepts and Applications, focuses on self-assessment, occupational experience, and decision-making.

2. Unit II, Social Conditions Affecting Career

Development, focuses on social, economic, family, and organizational changes affecting careers.

3. Unit III, Implementing a Strategic Career

Plan, focuses on employability skills and strategies for implementing academic and/or career development plans.

YOUR DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

The pyramid below is one way to remember what is important in making career decisions. Answer the questions provided to identify important factors when outlining your career plan. Consider the following:

Have any thoughts bothered me lately about making a career decision? (I will never decide...)

Thinking About My Decision Making

Knowing How I Make Decisions

How do I make decisions? • Talk to others. • Decide by myself. • Research my options. • Decide based on what I already know. • Procrastinate. • Start but can’t finish deciding. • Hesitate because I can’t choose among my options.

Knowing About Myself

Knowing About My Options

What is important to me? What do I enjoy? What do I do well? What options am I considering? (majors, occupations, employers, graduate schools, etc.)

Adapted from “A cognitive approach to career services: Translating concepts into practice,” by J. P. Sampson, G. W. Peterson, J. G. Lenz, and R. C. Reardon, 1992, The Career Development Quarterly, 41(1), p. 70. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-0045.1992.tb00360.x. Copyright 1992 by the National Career Development Association. Adapted with permission.