Question: A. PURPOSE This simulation will give you experience in preparing career and life plans and in acting as a helper for someone else formulating career life plans. A. PROCEDURES Complete Steps 1 and 2 before coming to class.
Step 1. Individually prepare a set of career life goals.The list can include school, career, professional, personal, and relationship goals (List 1).
Step 2. Individually list important accomplishments or happenings, including peak experiences, things that have made you feel happy or satisfied, and times when you felt most alive or real (List 2).
Step 3. Divide into teams of two: participant and practitioner. An extra class member may join as the third member of a team. During the simulation you will play each role. The practitioner goes through the participant's list of career life goals testing for realistic goals, helping to set priorities, and looking for conflicting goals. Revise List 1 as necessary and mark the priority of each goal. When one person has finished, trade positions. Time suggested for Step 3: 25 minutes.
Step 4.The outcome of Step 3 is a set of goals with relative priorities.Working individually, prepare a detailed plan of action specifying how to get from where you are to where the goals suggest you would like to be (List 3). Time suggested for Step 4: 15 minutes.
Step 5. First in teams and then as a class, critique the usefulness of a career life planning session. Additional questions include:
1. What things did the practitioners say or do that were helpful?
2. What things did the practitioners think they did that were helpful?
3. What things did the practitioners do that were not helpful?
4. What things would the practitioners not do again?