Paper should respond to the following items:

Personal Career Path

Discuss the influences and interrelationships among and between work, family, and other life roles and factors, including the role of multicultural issues in career development as you see it throughout your own life.

Career and educational planning, placement, follow-up, and evaluation.

Discuss the role that career and educational planning, placement, follow-up and evaluation have played in your own life. Discuss how intentional and unintentional events in your life have influenced where you are today. Was there a school or college counselor, relative, friend, employer, etc. who helped guide you? If not, this is ok, but share how this impacted you.

Assessments and Activities

Discuss assessment instruments and techniques relevant to career planning and decision making (Discuss in depth the instruments that you took and interpreted in class which include: the RIASEC, Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI), and CDMSE. In addition, you are to discuss any classroom activities (genogram, card sort, My Career Story, etc.) we completed in class. How do you see these instruments to be useful in personal or professional use? In other words, how do these assessments work for you? Do the results fit with what you expected? Be sure to use and cite references for your work in this section.

Theories

Discuss in depth how you see your life and your assessment results through the lenses of one of the career theories that we have discussed in depth this semester. Identify specific models or concepts that you identify in your personal career path and how you see them manifesting themselves (i.e., self-concept, Super’s developmental stages, self-efficacy, Holland’s hexagon, etc.) Be sure to use and cite references for your work in this section.

Credit will be deducted for misspellings, poor grammar, sloppy formats, etc.

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Personal Career Path

Working in today’s society is quite challenging for numerous employees. People are struggling to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Tough economic times force people to take on more hours at work, which hurts their personal lives…