PERDEV (Career Development)

• Personality - the unique pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make up a person’s distinctive way of being in the world
• It is the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character. - personality
• Personality development - plays an important role in developing not only your outer but also your inner self.
• What are the four dimensions of personality according myers-Briggs type indicator?

  Extraversion, Introversion, Sensing, Intuition, Thinking, Feeling, Judging, Perceiving.
• Extrovert – interact more outside and place more energy to other people.
• Introvert – interact within oneself and place more energy to the self.
• Sensing – a person mainly believes the information he or she receives

  directly from the external world.
• Intuition – a person believes mainly the information he or she receives from the internal or imaginative world.
• Thinking – use impersonal means of reasoning: logic and verifiable

  experience.
• Feeling – prefer personal reasoning, and value judgments and emotions.
• Judging – prefers a planned or orderly way of life, likes to have things

  settled and organized.
• Perceptive – prefers a flexible and spontaneous way of life.
• Realistic - adventuring/producing
• Investigative - analytic
• Artistic - creative
• Conventional - organizing
• Enterprising - influencing
• Social - helping
• Realistic- Interested in athletics, good with their hands, prefers to work with objects, machines, plants or animals rather than with people.
• Artistic - Likes to work in unstructured situations using imagination and creativity. Prefers a creative approach to problem-solving and planning which relies heavily on intuition and imagination.
• Conventional - Likes to work with data, numbers, more than people. Likes detail, tangible products, and has little tolerance for ambiguity. Likes following others; instructions rather than being in charge
• Enterprising - Likes to work with people in leadership capacity – managing, performing, persuading, influencing, often for organizational or political goals or economic gain.
• Social - Likes to work with people in some helping capacity – informing, teaching, developing, curing people.
• Realistic- They do the right thing first and on point without or less arguments.
• Investigative - Prefers to analyze a problem, evaluate options, and data, set a plan of action, and analyze the results.
• What do you call a sequence of courses within your area of interest?

  pathway
• Is it your educational road map - pathway
• What are the clear professional objectives?

  education, career planning, long term goals, family matters
• Personal development - the process of improving one's skills, knowledge, and abilities.
• covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life, and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations - personal development
• What are the five factors in personal development?

  self-awareness, motivation, self-efficacy, empathy, social dexterity
• Self-Awareness – it is the foundation to good personal development and making an impact on the world around us.
• Motivation – quite strong and lead you to achieving huge success.
• Self-efficacy – it is the ability to control your responses and your

  emotions without being stoic or frigid in your responses.
• Empathy – it is the ability to put yourself in another person’s shoes.
• Social Dexterity – it means interacting with other people.
• What are the influences of personal development?

  family, school, gender, peers
• Family Influence – both mothers and fathers influence their children in their choice of career.
• School Influence – teachers and peers also play a pivotal role in students’ choices of careers.
• Gender Influence – both male and female students compete for the same careers.