Career & Life

Plan
(You must make an appointment to discuss your
finished plan with your counsellor by
December 12, 2014)
Your Career & Life plan is an exploration and documentation of
your plans beyond secondary school.

What are you planning to do?

Work/employment, skills upgrading, post-secondary education, training,
travel etc.
Where will you pursue you plan?
Are you planning to stay in the Tri-Cities? Moving to another community or
even another country?
Why have you decided on that particular route?
What interests, aptitudes, skills led you to this decision?
How will you fulfill your plan?
You will document finances, supports, preparation

Legal Name:

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Preferred Name:

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Birthdate:

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Advisory:

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Counsellor: _____________________________________________________
HWSS Student Number: __________________________________________

Goal Setting
Short Term Goals

Long Term Goals

Less than 2 years

More than 2 years

Consider

Consider

Work force
Post-secondary training
Skills upgrading
Travel
Other

Eventual career choices

Financial Goals
Key life experiences
Other

Short Term Goals

Long Term Goals

List your goals and suggest a timeline.

List your goals and suggest a timeline.

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Target Date: ____________________

Target Date: _________________

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Target Date: ____________________

Target Date: _________________

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Goal________________________

Target Date: ____________________

Target Date: _________________

ADD IN: Describe in 1 or 2 paragraphs why ONE of your long term goals is a good fit
for you at this time in your life.
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Personality
Skills: (Things that you can do now or abilities you can acquire)
A.

List two skills you have that support your long term goals
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B.
Where did you acquire these skills?
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C.
How do these skills support your long term goals?
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Interests:
A.

List 3 or 4 areas interest (ie: sports, hobbies, activities, clubs etc.)

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B.

Choose one the areas of interest that you are most interested in and explain why.

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Checking Yourself Out

Go to the following website and on the main page click on the Whats Your Type quiz mid way
down the page. Record the main points about your character in each of the FOUR TYPES YOU MAY
BE in the spaces below.
www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

Type

Characteristics

Extraversion
Introversion
Intuition
Sensing
Thinking
Feeling
Judging
Perceiving
List the names of 3 Career or Occupational areas you have considered this year:

1
2
3

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Have these choices changed since your Planning 10 Career Project:

______ Yes _____No
Why? How? Describe your new choicesOr reflect on why your choices havent changed

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Go to: www.careercruising.com
USER: heritagewoods

If you havent looked at this since grade 10,

You may want to redo the survey!

PASSWORD: kodiaks
Then choose the CAREERS button on the top task bar. Enter the career choice you are most
passionate about and click search. Print the printer friendly report and attach to this project.
Describe what kind of training or education you require for ONE of the career/occupations you
noted above. Career Cruising will suggest an educational level then you may use
www.educationplanner.bc.ca to locate information relevant to BC.
Once you have found the information fill in the responses to the following questions:
1. What education/training and/or experience do is required to achieve your long term goals?

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2. Name one school that offers the training you require:
Name: ______________________________________ Location_____________________________
3. Complete the following:
a.

Name of the program:

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b.

Tuition/Book/Fees amount

c.

Length of program

d.

Credential offered
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(e.g: Degree, Diploma, Certificate, etc.)

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4. Entrance requirements: List Grade 11 and 12 subjects required. (The pre-requisites to your
program of choice set by THAT PARTICULAR Post Secondary Institution).

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5. If you dont get into your PSI of choice (#2 above) what are two other post secondary schools
you may apply to

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YOURS IS THE LAST WORD.

1. List and describe 3 positive experiences you have had while attending secondary school.
(curricular, extra-curricular, intramural, clubs, teams, friends, staff, etc.)

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2. How do you or will you contribute to society now and in the future?

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FINALLY AS YOU LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL
Design a personal philosophy statement that describes
your beliefs as you leave your secondary school experience.
Your statement (words to live by):

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There is only one success--to be able

to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Be the change that you

want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles

of your past can become the gateways
that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum

It is our choices that show what we truly are,

far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling