Follow Your Heart
Career Development puts YOU in your career. It should be about doing something that you can commit to and have the skills to achieve and realize your goals and aspirations.
- Your “heart” being characteristics built on values, beliefs and interests.
- Dreaming is normal, appropriate and natural. It is important to recognize and validate your teen’s dreams and ambitions.
- Your teen can move towards their dreams when given appropriate tools and strategies to do so.
Helpful Tip
To help guide your teen:
- Recognize and celebrate their successes.
- Support their choices and support them through their mistakes.
Values
A set of beliefs and attitudes about what is preferable in life or in career. When considering a career, career values are one of the most important factors that will guide individual choices.
Helpful Tip
To help guide your teen encourage them to:
- Think back to a time when they were young. What were their interests or passions?
Skills
An alignment between career and core values produces satisfaction, a sense of happiness and fulfillment.
Helpful Tip
To help guide your teen encourage them to:
- Ask the people around them (friends, family, classmates) to identify skills that your teen demonstrates.
- Articulate their strengths.
- Explore what they know.
- Identify areas for growth.
Motivations
Motivations are what energizes us when we think about what we would like to work towards in our careers.
Helpful Tip
To help guide your teen encourage them to:
- Think about what they would like to contribute to the world through their work.
- Consider how career supports other areas of their life.
- Identify what elements of a workplace are important to them or what they think would be important to them.
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