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| Components of Career Education Program |  A complete career education program consists of the following broad components:
Self consciousness activities typically involve students in:
• identifying their own personal attributes (physical, intellectual, emotional characteristics, skills, interests and values)
• exploring the relationship between their personal attributes and the skills required to be effective in different life/work situations
• evaluating strategies and conditions that affect their learning in different life and work situations.
Opportunity consciousness activities involve students in investigating, exploring and experiencing the world of work and the various pathways within it. Activities can include:
• experiencing and researching different work environments
• investigating a range of occupations and educational and training opportunities
• analyzing historical and projected changes in the world of work.
Decision studying is concerned with learning how to make decisions. Appropriate activities involve students in:
• exploring how other people make decisions and understanding the influences on a person's decision-making
• identifying appropriate decision making styles and strategies
• generating a range of career related options for themselves.
Transition studying relates to the awareness and skills students need to cope with new situations, both desired and undesired. Representative activities include:
• identifying the range of planned and unplanned life/work transitions they may encounter during their lifetime
• exploring how people respond to transitions
• developing the skills to effectively manage a range of planned and unplanned transitions (problem solving, identifying and using support networks).
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