4th Quarter Exam in ESP 9

• Lesson 20: Goal Setting - There is a need for a person to set his goal in life because this is a powerful technique that can yield strong returns in all areas of life.
• Taking Good Aim - A story in lesson 20 where Sir Paulias Matane tells this story about himself that taught him a lesson in life which is "Keep your eye on the goal."
• Specific – one has to define and make details of the goal.
• Goal setting - a very powerful technique that can yield strong returns in all areas of a person's life. It gives a person a long-term vision and a short-term motivation.
• Measurable – one needs something by which he can measure his progress and tell when he has reached his objectives.
• Attainable – a good goal must be realistic and attainable.
• Relevant – ask yourself if the goal set can bridge where you are now and what or where you want to be.
• Time-bounded – you should set the time on when to achieve the goal.
• Action oriented – make an action to reach your dream.
• Possible hindrances in defining your goal: Financial status, Family, Weakness, Health
• Lesson 21: Factors in Choosing a Course - In choosing a course, one has to make a self-assessment in order to make a right career decision.
• Find Your Real Self – a story in Lesson 21 where a reporter asked the famous George Bernard Shaw about if he could live his life all over again, who would he like to be. He answered, “I would choose to be the man George Bernard Shaw could have been but never was.” Which greatly emphasized the lesson that “Don’t wish to be somebody else. Wish to be yourself–but better.
• Values – refer to the things important to you.
• Interests – refer to things you enjoy doing.
• Personality – refers to your traits, motivational drives, needs, attitudes, and behaviours.
• Skills – refer to the activities you are good at.
• Values Inventories – the values of a person are the most important things to consider when choosing an occupation.
• Intrinsic values – related to the work itself and what it contributes to society.
• Extrinsic values – include external features such as physical setting and potential.
• Interest Inventories – usually used in career planning. It needs a series of questions regarding your interest.
• E.K. Strong, Jr. – pioneered the development of interest inventories. He found through the data gathered about persons’ likes and dislikes by variety of activities that persons with the same course and career had similar interest.
• Dr. John Holland – matched these types of interests with occupations. The results of the interest inventory are compared against the results of this study to see if it is similar to the interest of a person.
• Six types of interest: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional
• Personality Inventories – used also in career planning. Most of them are based on a theory by Carl Jung.
• Carl Jung – a psychiatrist which categorized people into eight personality types.
• Eight personality types: extroverts, introverts, thinking, feeling, seeing, intrusive, judging, and perceptive.
• Jungian Personality Theory – used by career counselors to help clients choose careers.
• Skill-assessment – where you determine the skills you possess.