Connecting with Jobs, Roles, and Organizations
Connecting with Jobs, Roles, and Organizations
What is happening in the world of work? And how will it affect you?
How do we know how to build and design a great career? How do we learn about it? Is it more of an oral history process, where someone told us how to do this? Again, was it the Career Center? Parents?
Watch the first 4 minutes or so of the following YouTube video, and replace the word “Game” with “Job Search” or “Career Search” in your head as you watch.
Designing Game Rules – PAX South 2016
What are models for the Game of creating a career?
Career Models
Think of your favorite TV shows growing up. Did you ever wonder what the characters do for a living and how they afforded their home and lifestyle? Or did part of their work make you interested in that version of what they did?
What do the friends of your family and your friends’ families do for a living?
Write your thoughts on how you know how to create a career and what you already know.
Where do you get everyday career information?
How do you think the process works to create a career and find your next few jobs?
What are the support systems that you have? How do they tell you that this works?
What have you learned in school, formally or informally, about how your career will work?
Are there different models?