1.04 - The Self-Determined Career Development Model - Page 3

PHASE 1

Problem to Solve: What are my career and job goals?

• Question 1: What career and job do I want?
  • Objectives:
    • Enable person to communicate career and job related preferences, interests, beliefs, and values.
    • Enable person to identify and communicate strengths and needs as they relate to specific jobs and related careers.
    • Enable and support person to prioritize career and jobs options and select preferred option(s).
• Question 2: What do I know about it now?
  • Objectives:
    • Enable person to identify his or her current status in relation to prioritized job and career option(s).
    • Enable person to identify knowledge or skill strengths and needs pertaining to prioritized job or career option(s).
    • Assist person to gather information about opportunities and barriers in their environments pertaining to prioritized job and career option(s).
• Question 3: What must change for me to get the job and career I want?
  • Objectives:
    • Support person to prioritize needs related to job and career preference(s).
    • Enable person to choose primary need and decide if action needs to be focused toward capacity building, modifying the environment or both.
• Question 4: What can I do to make this happen?
  • Objectives:
    • Teach person to state a long term career goal, short term employment goals, and objectives to reach short term employment goals.
• Phase 1 Employment Supports
  • Communication Instruction
  • Awareness Training
  • Self-Assessment of Job and Career Preferences and Abilities
  • Career and Job Exploration Activities
  • Job Shadowing and Sampling
  • Organizational Skills Training
  • Problem Solving Instruction
  • Choice-Making Instruction
  • Decision-Making Instruction
  • Goal-Setting Instruction