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Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n Career planning in the 21st century<\/a><\/p>\n Career planning road map<\/a><\/p>\n Decision making styles<\/strong><\/p>\n Pros and cons of decision making approaches<\/a><\/p>\n Summary<\/a><\/p>\n When it comes to making a decision about the future, it can be helpful to reflect upon decisions you have made in the past and how you made these. There are different approaches to decision making and evaluating these can help you identify if you have a preferred style and if the style is appropriate for the career decisions you are going to make in the future.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These are a few approaches to making a decision:<\/p>\n Sarah is a sociology student at the University of Sheffield. Here’s an example of her life decisions to date.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sarah chose to study AS Levels in French, English, Biology as she had got decent grades at GCSE and thought they would leave her options open. Although she hadn\u2019t studied Economics before, she chose the subject as she thought it would be interesting (Incomplete<\/strong>). Within a month of starting Economics, she knew it wasn\u2019t for her. The only alternative option that fitted her timetable was Sociology so she transferred to that. (Fatalistic<\/strong>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She found that she loved Sociology so decided to study that at University. She researched courses, curriculum and syllabus, and attended open days. She compiled a list of factors about each course and University; including the social life, societies, accommodation and library facilities. (Rational<\/strong>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the end of her first year she joined a summer camp because her current boyfriend suggested going together. (Compliant<\/strong>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the end of her second year she and a friend decided to buy an inter rail\u00a0youth pass and travel round Europe. Although they didn\u2019t plan it, they got as far as Paris and then caught a train leaving for Venice later that day. They had a fantastic time and made some great friends. (Impulsive<\/strong>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click on the graphic below<\/strong>\u00a0to launch the exercise and reflect on your own experience of making decisions. It should take 3 – 5 minutes to complete.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Introduction Career planning in the 21st century Career planning road map Decision making styles Pros and cons of decision making approaches Summary Decision making styles When it comes to making a decision about the future, it can be helpful to reflect upon decisions you have made in the past and how you made these. There…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1787,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1794\/revisions\/2946"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Decision making styles<\/h1>\n
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