Analyze personal factors, work preferences, and work values.

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?