Title: Analyze personal factors, work preferences, and work values.
Course: Introduction to Early Childhood Education (19153-36) > Section: Preparing for Career Success

Analysis should include

- one’s personal factors (e.g., personality traits, personal interests, skills, abilities, and dispositions)
- the preference for working with people, things, and/or information
- preferred work modes (i.e., conventional, social, enterprising, mechanical, investigative, or creative)
- work values (e.g., security, personal integrity, recognition, adventure, economic reward, self-expression, helping others, relationships, leadership, autonomy).

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What do the terms personality traits, personal interests, skills, abilities, and dispositions mean?
- What personal factors should be considered when developing career goals?
- What other factors affect career choices?

Communication

- Why are communication skills important when developing career goals?

Leadership

- What is the role of work values in the development of career goals?

Management

- How can continuous evaluation and improvement of personal interests, abilities, and skills lead to career success?