TEENAGER BENEFITS
The benefits gained will prepare you for the journey ahead in identifying and pursuing the career choices most suitable for you.
Teenager benefits are a function of resilence! Your level of resilence is how you respond and learn from self discovery and self awareness activities and experiences.
To capture the benefits, create a career journal portfolio
Open your mind to the Johari Window , you don't know, what you don't know. Have some fun and see if you can apply Johari Window. There are significant teenager benefits in understanding and applying the Johari Window in a career development context. BENEFITS TO YOU. For instance, you may try a new task that you've previously shied away from. What happens next?
Your supervisors, leaders, teachers, coaches and parents can help by creating an environment that encourages self-discovery, and to promote the processes of self-discovery, constructive observation and feedback among others. Creating a culture, climate and expectation for self-discovery helps people to fulfil more of their potential and thereby to achieve more individually and/or as member of a team.
An example of how a teenager's part-time working experience can translate into benefits
Renewed purpose: At long last I can see where I am heading
Increased self knowledge:I have learnt a lot about myself. I feel less anxious and comfortable about how go about my career planning for the future.
Increased Skills: I am capable of so much more than I thought
Career Awareness: I didn’t realise how many different careers there are for me to explore
Refreshed perspectives and views: I am glad I found out about the career requirements. I don’t think I would be suitable for that now.
Support Network: I feel better now that I know where I can get help from others if I need it.
Increased Productivity: I have found the more I know about myself and increase my skills the better I become at doing my study
School Years Action Plan: I feel so much better that I now have a step by step plan for this stage in my life
Increased motivation: I want to take ownership of managing my career and find the job that is most suitable to me
Increased choice: Now I know more about myself I have discovered more career options that I orginally had never thought to be available.
To capture benefits create a career journal portfolio
The idea is as career activities and experiences are happening you are capturing all ‘light globe moments’ in your Career Journal Portfolio. "What’s that?", I hear you say. It is a place to keep information about your achievements, work experience, volunteering, activities and experiences of interest, goals, careers research and details of people that can speak about your achievements and capabilities.
A habit you should get into is maintaining a journal in ‘real time’. I emphasise ‘real time’ to make a point that ‘career clues’ can happen with regularity. Remember we are trying to capture information that excites, inspires and creates personal fulfillment. It may be an activity in the classroom, school yard or while going for a walk. You see it is not limited to an organised experience or activity. It’s about the journey!
Funkee Careers will open your mind to career choices and help you to develop action plans to navigate our forever changing environment, for the journey ahead. Your career journey evolution will be dependent on the amount of time and effort taken to invest in YOU. By being resilent you maximise your potential. "Knowing what you want to be is an outcome. You see?" Sometimes we will rush the outcome and treat it as a 'tick in box' exercise, often without any ongoing process of exploring and validing our career choices.
An example of how a student working part-time can translate into student benefits
We need to capture career data in formulating a career development portfolio for the puposes of 'Who am I?', 'Where am I going?' and 'How am I getting there?' Career development experiences and activities are happening in front of us everyday. We need to apply a 'reflective and deeper learning' to our career development experiences and activities.
For example a career development experience could be a part-time job. Your motivations for doing the job could be 'money to buy/save for what you want' and 'it will look good on your resume'.
If we reflect on the learning from this experience in a career development context, we are learning: customer service skills, dealing with conflict, business processes, up-selling skills, product and service branding, team work and time managment (ie juggling school and part-time work). Capture this career data in a journal and/or file, which becomes part of your career journal portfolio. What do you enjoy about the job? How does that relate to the subjects you enjoy at school? How can I find out more about a job?