1. What does your research suggest to you about what would be your preferable occupational options? Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to provide you with experience in analyzing your career preferences.

Required Understanding: Students should be thoroughly familiar with the Employee s Role in Career Management section in this chapter, as well as using O*Net (which we discussed in Chapter 4).

How to Set Up the Exercise/Instructions:

Using O*Net and the Employee s Role in Career Management section in this chapter, analyze your career-related inclinations (you can take the self-directed search for about $10 at www.self-directed-search.com). Based on this analysis, answer the following questions (if you wish, you may do this analysis in teams of three or four students).