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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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CPD 104 - Career and Personal Development
Description: Career/life planning through self-awareness and understanding. Focus is on dealing with change, decision making, goal setting and understanding lifestyles as well as evaluating interests, skills and values. Emphasis on the development of a comprehensive career search process including current occupational information, specific tools for researching the job market and acquiring employment.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Defining terms
- Adult development
- Personal and career beliefs and values
- Choices: change and decision-making skills
- Personal inventory assessment
- Occupational information
- Job search methods
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the process of career and life planning. (1)
- Define and evaluate choices and resources for dealing with change. (4)
- Identify specific personal skills and relate these skills to occupations. (5)
- Identify and translate interests and abilities to occupations. (5)
- Identify personal values and value conflicts as related to career decision-making. (3)
- Identify obstacles to decision-making and resources for overcoming these obstacles. (4)
- Identify systems for occupational grouping and use various sources of occupational information. (6)
- Establish long range goals for personal and career development. (4)
- Identify stages of adult development and describe their influence on lifestyle. (2)
- Define and assess individual beliefs and motivations about work. (3, 5)
- Identify environmental factors and trends which influence career and/or job choices. (6)
- Identify and utilize a variety of effective job search methods and interviewing skills. (7)
- Design and compose appropriate resumes. (7)
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