Week 6 career problems
Conducting and analyzing career assessments will help you and your clients make informed decisions that are aligned to their career objectives, skills, and personal interests. In this assignment, you will apply career development theories and principles to create an appropriate career plan for a client.
Review the following case study before completing the assessment.
Mary is a 39-year-old single mom of two teenage sons. She identifies as an African American, heterosexual, cisgender female. She recently lost her job and is looking for a path forward. She worked at a local call center answering insurance questions as a customer service representative; however, the company decided to move most of the business overseas, and she was let go. She appears anxious and upset in your office. Money is her immediate concern—she wants to find a part-time job for extra money while she attends school full time to earn her bachelor’s degree.
She is unsure of what she wants to major in, but she does know she wants to do something in the medical profession. She has enrolled in school that starts in a week and will be taking general education courses. Her parents did not attend college, and she is unsure of how to proceed through the sorting process of choosing a major. She doesn’t want to make the wrong move, and she doesn’t want to get her sons’ hopes up by making them believe she will get a better job. She did not excel in high school subjects but feels confident that if she finds something she loves, she will be able to finish.
As her career counselor, you have recommended that Mary complete the O*NET Interest Profiler assessment. She earned the following assessment scores: Realistic: 8, Investigative: 6, Artistic: 24, Social: 26, Enterprising: 18, Conventional: 6
From the O*Net Interest Profiler home page, locate and click the Enter Scores button. Enter Mary’s assessment scores to analyze her interests. Use your findings to complete the assessment.
2-page career plan outline
Follow the prompts You will use the assessment results from the case study to develop and present a career plan to the client.
Career Plan Outline
Create a 2-page outline with brief and informal speaker notes to help you prepare your ideas and guide your speaking notes
In the outline be sure to:
- Summarize the value of the career assessment used in the case study.
- Explain the assessment results to the client. Incorporate details or examples to make your findings relevant and meaningful to the client(e.g., client strengths and challenges, assessment insights or discrepancies, etc.).
- Recommend 2 to 3 career goals for the client, based on the assessment results. Include relevant details to explain why the goals are beneficial to the client.
- Explain how the career goals you recommended align with your preferred theoretical approach to career and vocational counseling.
- Provide 2 to 3 strategies and/or resources (e.g., job search tools, websites, literature, organizations, etc.) the client can use to accomplish the recommended career goals.
- Conclude the video by proposing an action step the client can take to begin the career plan.
Cite any sources used according to APA guidelines.