PERSONS & CAREERS

• Career

  -           is sometimes interchangeably used with the word occupation, which is something that allows you to use your knowledge, skills, potentials, or abilities acquired and developed through your formal training at school.
• Career growth/development

  -          a process through which your distinct characteristics for worked are formed. It is aimed at achieving a fit between the person’s characteristics and work.
• Personal Mission Statement

  q  It includes our purpose and principles in life.

  q  It answers the following questions:

                  1. What do I want from life?

                  2. Where do I want to go?

                  3. What do I believe or value in life?

                  4. How do I get there?

   
• How to achieve goals?

  1. Define your goals
  2. Set a target date
  3. Identify ways on how to reach your goals
  4. Identify your “sign post”
• PERSONALITY - It may include one’s traits or characteristics. Personality traits are characteristics that make each person unique or different from others.
• Sta. Maria classified personality assessment into the following basic dimensions: extraversion/introversion; sensing/intuitive; thinking/feeling; & judging/perceiving.
• §  VALUES - These are the principles or standards that guide every person in making choices and decisions in life.
• §  INTERESTS - These are activities that you enjoy doing. These may include your likes or dislikes, or the things that motivate you.

   
• §  SKILLS - It includes the abilities or proficiencies that have been developed through training or formal education.

   
• 1.       Technical Skills - It includes the knowledge of theories and one’s capability to put into practice the theories that it learned in class.
• 1.        Soft/Functional Skills - These are proficiencies that enable someone to stand out with employers when they apply for work.
• • §  ATTITUDES It is described as how you view situations or things around you.

   
• 3 Components of Attitudes:

  1.       Cognition

  2.       Affects

  3.       Behavior
• §  Personality Traits and Career Options - These are your essential qualities that make you different or unique. Certain personality traits may actually match certain careers.

   
• John Holland classified six types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, & conventional.
• Realistic Type - People with realistic personality types enjoy activities where they can create and manipulate things by using their hands.
• Investigative Type - People with this kind personality type prefer occupations that focus on scientific endeavors.
• Artistic Type - People with this personality type usually prefer activities that are free, unsystematic, and creative.
• Social Type- People with this personality type prefer activities that will help others to develop and be enlightened.
• • Enterprising Type People with this personality type prefer activities that influence or convince others to achieve organization and economic growth

   
• • Conventional Type People with this personality type prefer activities that are structured and orderly.