1(a) What specific career exploration activities have Michele and Joe undertaken to gather information about themselves (their values, needs, abilities, interests, and desired life style) and their environment (different jobs, employers, industries, their families)? What could each of them have done to acquire more information?
Answer:
Personal Information
Michele Terry Values: ➢ Promotion should be based on experience. ➢ Providing competitive service to the society as a part of bank. ➢ Emphasize on the personal goal.
Needs: ➢ An MBA degree. ➢ Multidimensional job experience ➢ Image of an officer.
Abilities: ➢ Bachelor degree. ➢ Competency in marketing service. ➢ Serve as a mentor for the young professionals to get their career established.
Interests: ➢ Post of the President
Desired Life Style: ➢ Wanted money and status and opportunity to affect broad policies to serve the community.
Joe Francis
Values: ➢ Higher degree of job commitment. ➢ Strong sense of quality work. ➢ Little attachment with the family. ➢ Legendary performance at the district and regional level. ➢ Pleased with the status in the company.
Needs: ➢ No career advancement was desired, satisfied with the job as sales representative. ➢ Stay at present job for the sake of his family. ➢ Needs attention to his work for staying at the present job.
Abilities: ➢ Legendary sales performance. ➢ Strong reservations about the quality of Infotek’s products.
Interest: ➢ Sales to pencil pushing and administration ➢ Give his family a luxurious life.
Desired life style: ➢ He was not so ambitious but for his family he became pretty accustomed to the good life.
Environmental Information
Michele Terry
Different jobs: ➢ Unable to get another job.
Employer: ➢ Federal Bank, a medium sized financial