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Chapter 7:

Decision-making

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Let’s discuss

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“Life is the sum of all your choices.”

~Albert Camus

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What decisions are next?

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Academic Decisions

School

Courses

Study abroad Major

Graduate school

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Decisions during

college

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Finding job Other options

Before entering workforce

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Lifelong learning and ongoing career development

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• Gathering facts and analyzing data

• Assessing outcomes and taking action

Logical thinking

• Relying on emotions or intuition

• Feels "right“

Trusting your intuition

• Outcomes or goals presented by others

• May not match your goals

Pleasing others

• Can initially feel good

• Miss the opportunity to be in control of outcome

Avoidance or

procrastination

Improve your decision-making skills

Four Decision-Making Approaches

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CASVE cycle

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Too much information about everything

How do you choose?

• Only the best will be right choice

• Good-enough will suffice

More choices Higher expectations Greater disappointment

Tech savvy:

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Save time for choices

that matter

Spend time on the big

questions

Create your own alternatives

Your choices CAN feel better

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Happenstance Theory

Be open-minded

Take advantage of

opportunities

Take advantage of

opportunities

Adapt to new information Reframe undecidedness

Chance events can happen

any time

Chance events can happen

any time

Choose to be engaged

Create Opportunity from Unexpected Events

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Initiate actions to benefit

Durin g

Remain alert and recognize opportunity

Bef ore

Remember how you have prepared

Take advantage of opportunities

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Self-efficacy - belief in one's own

capability

Increased with role models

Diminished without role models

Embracing differences: Role Models

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• Can motivate you to

succeed if interested in

subject

• Can motivate you to

succeed if interested in

subject

Education or training

• Skill development

throughout lifetime

• Skill development

throughout lifetime

Educational decisions

• Help you learn unique

set of skills that can be incorporated into

career

• Help you learn unique

set of skills that can be incorporated into

career

Decisions to make

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Explore interests Increase maturity

Generate relationships Build transferable skills

Gap year

Work with awareness

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Options for Gap Year

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Good decisions Increase skills Higher level of

responsibility

Higher level of responsibility

Flexibility Mobility

From decisions to action

Decision does not mean commitment to long-term career

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Define your interests

Choose appropriate decisions

Narrow choices

Select target jobs/industries

Move toward action steps Career decisions require action

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Thought Questions

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