South 고등학교 2학년 Career and Occupation
Chapters: 3
1. Career and self-understanding
Lives of working people · My career traits · Work ethics · Work, learning and leisure
- Career Planning: From Knowing Yourself to Your First Job – Career planning has five steps. 1) Know yourself: interests, skills and values. 2) Explore career families and find out the work, study needed, pay and demand. 3) Plan a pathway with SMART goals and a plan B. 4) Search for jobs with a CV, cover letter, digital portfolio and interview practice. 5) Make the move from school to work and keep learning, because careers change over a lifetime.
- Career Ethics and Work Ethics – Work ethics are the values that guide how we do our jobs: honesty, responsibility, fairness, respect and safety. Work gives money, growth and a way to help others. Every profession adds special duties, such as a doctor keeping secrets or an engineer putting safety first. When a hard choice appears, a simple ladder helps: stop, find facts, see who is affected, list options, choose, and test.
2. The world of work and career exploration
Future world of work · Career pathways · Job information · Further study and jobs · Sustainable career development · Entrepreneurship · Rights at work
- Future of Work – Technology changes jobs. Machines and AI take over tasks that repeat in the same way every day. At the same time new jobs appear, and jobs that need people skills, care and creative thinking grow. The best way to stay ready is to keep learning new skills all your life.
- Career Planning: From Knowing Yourself to Your First Job – Career planning has five steps. 1) Know yourself: interests, skills and values. 2) Explore career families and find out the work, study needed, pay and demand. 3) Plan a pathway with SMART goals and a plan B. 4) Search for jobs with a CV, cover letter, digital portfolio and interview practice. 5) Make the move from school to work and keep learning, because careers change over a lifetime.
- Lifelong Learning: Learning at Every Age – Lifelong learning means continuing to learn throughout life, not only at school. It includes formal learning (school, college), non-formal learning (organised courses outside school) and informal learning (everyday experience). Because jobs and technology change fast, people need to update skills to adapt and build a sustainable career. After school there are many pathways — academic, vocational, apprenticeship, work plus study — and qualifications can be stacked over time. A learning society gives everyone chances to learn, and each person can make a simple learning plan.
- Entrepreneurship Development – Entrepreneurship is starting a new business by spotting a need, putting resources together and taking the risk. India needs entrepreneurs for jobs, new ideas and balanced growth. The process runs from knowing yourself to launching and growing. Start-up India (2016) supports new firms, funding comes from savings, angels, venture capital, banks and crowdfunding, and intellectual property rights protect new ideas, brands and creative work.
- Employment Law: The Rules of Working for Someone – Employment law is the set of rules for the relationship between an employer and an employee. An employment contract exists when a person does work, for pay, under the employer's direction (subordination). Contracts may be permanent, fixed-term, temporary through an agency, part-time or telework; a civil-law or freelance contract is not employment. Employees have rights (at least the minimum wage, limited hours, rest and paid leave, a safe workplace, equal treatment, freedom from harassment) and duties (careful work, following lawful instructions, loyalty, safety rules). Employers can organise work and discipline, within the law. Pay is gross before tax and social insurance and net after; the employer's total cost is higher. Trade unions negotiate collective agreements. A contract ends by resignation, dismissal with a valid reason and fair procedure, mutual agreement or the end of a fixed term.
3. Career design and action
Career decisions · Setting goals · Planning study or work · Self-management for action
- Decision Making: How to Choose Well, Step by Step – Decision making means choosing the best option from two or more choices. A good decision follows steps: spot the problem, list options, set criteria, give each criterion a weight, score the options, choose, act and then review. A decision matrix turns this into simple numbers.
- Career Planning: From Knowing Yourself to Your First Job – Career planning has five steps. 1) Know yourself: interests, skills and values. 2) Explore career families and find out the work, study needed, pay and demand. 3) Plan a pathway with SMART goals and a plan B. 4) Search for jobs with a CV, cover letter, digital portfolio and interview practice. 5) Make the move from school to work and keep learning, because careers change over a lifetime.
- Self-Management: Taking Charge of Your Feelings, Goals and Time – Self-management is the skill of guiding your own feelings, thoughts and actions so you can reach your goals. It starts with self-awareness: noticing what you feel and how strong it is. Then you pause before reacting (Stop, Think, Act) and use calming tools such as slow breathing. Your beliefs and thoughts shape your feelings and actions, so changing an unhelpful thought ('I'm useless') into a helpful one ('I can't do it yet') changes what you do. Good self-managers set SMART goals, plan their time by importance, build healthy habits and bounce back from setbacks (resilience). These skills help in school, friendships and future careers.