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What's New? Career Decision-Making Tool
NCDG Indicators

This chart identifies indicators of skill mastery for this goal at three learning stages: knowledge acquisition, application and reflection. For more information on learning stages, see What is NCDG?

Career Management

Goal: Use accurate, current, and unbiased career information during career planning and management. [CM3 What is this?]

Indicators

Knowledge

Application

Reflection

Describe the importance of career information to your career planning. [CM3.K1]

Show how career information has been important in your plans and how it can be used in future plans. [CM3.A1]

Assess the impact of career information on your plans and refine plans so that they reflect accurate, current, and unbiased career information. [CM3.R1]

Recognize that career information includes occupational, education and training, employment, and economic information and that there is a range of career information resources available. [CM3.K2]

Demonstrate the ability to use different types of career information resources (i.e., occupational, educational, economic, and employment) to support career planning. [CM3.A2]

Evaluate how well you integrate occupational, educational, economic, and employment information into the management of your career. [CM3.R2]

Recognize that the quality of career information resource content varies (e.g., accuracy, bias, and how up-to-date and complete it is). [CM3.K3]

Show how selected examples of career information are biased, out-of-date, incomplete, or inaccurate [CM3.A3]

Judge the quality of the career information resources you plan to use in terms of accuracy, bias, and how up-to-date and complete it is. [CM3.R3]

Identify several ways to classify occupations. [CM3.K4]

Give examples of how occupational classification systems can be used in career planning. [CM3.A4]

Assess which occupational classification system is most helpful to your career planning. [CM3.R4]

Identify occupations that you might consider without regard to your gender, race, culture, or ability. [CM3.K5]

Demonstrate openness to considering occupations that you might view as nontraditional (i.e., relative to your gender, race, culture, or ability). [CM3.A5]

Assess your openness to considering non-traditional occupations in your career management. [CM3.R5]

Identify the advantages and disadvantages of being employed in a non-traditional occupation. [CM3.K6]

Make decisions for yourself about being employed in a non-traditional occupation. [CM3.A6]

Assess the impact of your decisions about being employed in a non-traditional occupation. [CM3.R6]