Personal Development

Career Development
Concepts and Factors
`Influencing Career
Choices
1
What you want to
be when you grow
up?
Process Questions
1. Take a looked at your answer, is there a difference
in your career choice then and now?
2. What do you think are the factors that lead to the
change? If it is still the same, what are the factors that
allowed it to stay that way?
3. Do you think you can make your career choice
today a reality? If yes, how can you make it real? If
not, state the reason and how and you can possibly
make it come true?
Activity : AGREE / DISAGREE
Put a check mark on the column if you agree to the statement
and under column if you disagree.
Process Questions:

1. Which statement is the hardest

to decide? Why?
2. Is there someone or something
that influenced your decisions?
Explain your answer.
Career Development is the process of
choosing a career, improving your skills,
and advancing along a career path
(McKay, 2020). It is a lifelong process of
learning and decision- making that brings you
closer to your ideal job, skillset, and
lifestyle.
Life goals are what we want to achieve,
and they are much more meaningful than just
‘what we need to accomplish to survive’.
Unlike daily routines or short-term
objectives, they drive our behaviors over the
long run.
Core values are a set of fundamental
beliefs, ideals or practices that inform how
you conduct your life, both personally and
professionally. You need to have a good
understanding of yourself and your values to
readily analyze your current or future situations.
Your values give you a sense of purpose and
are guideposts to what fits you best.
Core values are a set of fundamental
beliefs,ideals or practices that inform how
you conduct your life, both personally and
professionally. You need to have a good
understanding of yourself and your values to
readily analyze your current or future
situations. Your values give you a sense of
purpose and are guideposts to what fits you
best.
Making Career Decision starts with knowing what is important to
you (your values), what you enjoy (your interests), and what you do
well (your skills). The pyramid below is a simple way to remember what
is important in making career decisions.
Reflect on the following questions
1. What is important to you at this moment in
your life now?
2. What are your field of interests? Are they
aligned to your skills and abilities?
3. How can understanding the concepts of
career and life goals help you in
planning your career?
Career is defined as the combination and
sequence of roles played by a person throughout a
lifetime (Super, 1980). Your career basically dictates a
lot of things in your life - it can determine the kind of
lifestyle that you will be leading; the quality of
relationships that you have with people around you like
your family and friends, the kind of balance you will be
able to keep with your life and your responsibilities.
There are :
Two other concepts that is often associated to
the concept of career

•Job is a position an individual holds

during specific duties, for example if you
would look closely to a job of a lawyer you
can say that a lawyer's job is working
as an associate in the X Law Firm
Two other concepts that is often associated to
the concept of career
•Occupation is defined as the similar work for
which people have similar responsibilities and
for which they develop a common set of skills
and knowledge for example people who are in
the mental health occupation would include
psychologists, clinical psychologists, counselors,
and psychiatrists
Super’s Career Development Theory

Donald Super built his developmental theory on the

idea that your view of yourself changes. Time and
experience help shape the way a person values their
career and the goals they set. This theory defines a
“career” as the entire lifetime of a person.
Table 1 Super Five Life and Career Development Stages
Stages Characteristics Tasks
Growth Development of self-concept, Developing a realistic
(Birth – 14) attitudes, needs and general world of self-concept
work
Exploration "Trying out" through classes, work Learning more about
(15-24) hobbies. Tentative choice and skill opportunities
development
Establishment Entry-level skill building and Getting started in a
(25-44) stabilization through work experience chosen field
Maintenance Continual adjustment process to Verifying current
(45-64) improve position occupational choice
Decline Reduced output, prepare for Giving less time to
(65+) retirement hobbies
Factors Influencing Career Choice
Important part of the development process is examining the different
factors that will play an impact on one’s career choice.
Interest and Personality Type
Process Questions
From the graphic organizer above, answer the following questions.
Write your answer in a separate paper.
1. How can your skills and abilities, interest and personality type
boost your career decision making?
2. Do childhood fantasies, life roles and previous experiences affects
one’s career choice? In what possible means?
3. In the world where gender equality is given importance, do you still
believe that your gender be given consideration in choosing your
career? Why?
4. In what way culture influence your choice of career?
5. One of the major considerations in deciding for a college course is
social and economic conditions, how will these factors impact your
career decisions?
Activity 3: ME AND MY DECISIONS
Factors that
Led You in
Situation Your Making the
Decision Decision
1. You want to become an architect,
but your parent’s want you to become a
nurse like your cousin who is now
working abroad and is earning a lot of
money.
2. You are quiet type of person, who
prefers to work alone rather than in a
group, but your best friend, insist that
you will both take up Mass
Communication in college.
Activity 3: ME AND MY DECISIONS
Factors that
Led You in
Situation Your Making the
Decision Decision
3. You really want to become a lawyer,
but your
family is hit financially by the Pandemic.
4. Since you were young you always
dreamed to become a seafarer and travel
the world, but your father told you it is not
good for you because you are a woman.
Activity 3: ME AND MY DECISIONS
Factors that Led
You in Making
Situation Your
Decision
the Decision

5. You have high grades in Math and

Science, you had won several
competitions in Robotics and you are
being offered by a scholarship in
Computer Engineering by one of the
known universities in the city.
 Now, that you were able to grasps the
ideas in career decision making, are
you confident enough to pursue your
dream career and pave your own
path?
Journal 6: FUTURE OCCUPATION BIO-
POEM
 Read the statement carefully and write the letter of the correct answer in
a separate answer sheet or in your notebook.
1. What word refers to a position held by an individual in the context of
specific duties?
A. Job B. Promotion C. Occupation D.
Vocation
2. What word denotes the combination and sequence of roles played by a
person throughout his or her lifetime?
A. Career B. Culture C. Destiny D. Sacrifices
3. What is the term for similar work for which people have similar
responsibilities and for which they develop a common set of skills and
knowledge?
A. Job B. Occupation C. Position D. Role
4. John is very good in planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating
business that is why he took up BS Accountancy. The main factor that
influences John’s choice of course is _____.
A. experience C. life roles
B. gender D. skills and
abilities
5. What do you call the process of choosing a career, improving your
skills, and advancing along a career path?
A. Career Satisfaction C. Career Shift
B. Career Development D. Career Wheel
6. They work as part time or full time and are often sent to places in their
home country or around the world. They receive training for first aid and
other important skills for rescue and relief.
A. Police Officers C. Human Rights Advocates
B. Red Cross Volunteers D. Youth Coordinating Council
7. What do you call the thoughts that can deter you from developing a
healthy and wholesome self-concept?
A. Daydreams C. Social imagination
B. Fantasizing thoughts D. Self-sabotaging thoughts
8. What skills required for a content writer?
A. excellent writing skills C. Both A & B
B. solid command in English D. None of the above
9. Questions that need clear and accurate answers so that you can
better enhance self-understanding and make useful career development
plans.
A. What you do well? C. What is important to you?
B. What you like to do? D. All of the above
10. Why are values important in career decision-making process?
A. gives you a sense of purpose C. guides your salvation
B. makes you a true Christian D. deepens your faith in
God

11.What statement sets out a real concept of personality and interest as a

factor that could influence a person's career decision?
A. career magnet
B. career boosting
C. need to match with the career requirements
D. those with pleasing personality are easily hired
12.According to Super’s life and career developmental stage, most of you
whose age ranges from 15-24 belongs to exploratory stage and these
possess characteristics, EXCEPT
A. Skill development
B. Making tentative choices
C. Stabilization through work experience
D. "Trying out" through classes, work, hobbies
13.To be a customer service representative of Business Process
Outsourcing Companies (BPOs), you must have the following qualities,
EXCEPT
A. good problem-solving skills
B. strong command of English
C. willing to work on weekends, nightshifts, and holidays
D. preferably political science or legal management graduate
14.Importance of career development to students, EXCEPT
A. Let students understand themselves better.
B. Allow students to make well informed decisions.
C. Enable students to take ownership of their career choice.
D. Make students become dependent to their parent’s decision.
15. Arrange in sequential order (growth to decline) the developmental tasks
of an individual, according to Super’s Career Developmental Stages.
1. Giving less time to hobbies
2. Getting started in a chosen field
3. Developing a realistic self-concept
4. Learning more about opportunities
5. Verifying current occupational choice
A. 3,5,2,4,1 B. 3,2,4,1,5 C. 3,4,2,5,1 D. 3,4,5,2,1