PERDEV

• Career


  Something that allows you to use your knowledge, skills, potentials, or abilities acquired and developed through formal training at school
• Career development


  1. A process through which your distinct characteristics for work are formed

  2. It follows a pattern or a cycle where an individual attempts to find a match between the self and the requirements of a job or a career
• Personal mission statement


  To develop your career and be prepared for the world of work, you must know your personal mission in life, or the reason that you are doing all the things you do every day
• PERSONAL FACTORS INFLUENCING CAREER CHOICES
• Personal factors influencing career choices

  • Personality
  • Values
  • Interests
  • Skills
  • Attitudes
• Personality


  Your traits or characteristics that affect the way you do your work
• Personality types


  • Extrovert people
  • Introvert people
• Extrovert people


  May fit into a type of work that requires people skills such as teaching, marketing, sales, or entertainment
• Introvert people


  May fit into jobs that require a lot of focus such as research, bookkeeping, and computer-related work
• Values


  The principles or standards that guide you in making choices and decisions in life
• One way of knowing your values is by identifying the factors you consider important
• Interests


  Activities that you enjoy doing, including your likes or the things that motivate you
• Skills


  Your abilities or proficiencies that have been developed through training technical or formal education
• Types of skills


  • Technical skills
  • Soft skills
• Technical skills


  Your knowledge of theories and your capability to put into practice the theories that you learn in the class. It consists of your capacity to perform specific and operational task related to a job
• Technical skills


  • Assemble parts of a gadget
  • Ability to compute the expenses
  • Create a bookkeeping record
• Soft skills


  Proficiencies that enable you to stand out with employers when you apply for work or change your career. Soft skills will help you move flexible at different stages of your career
• Soft skills


  • Communication skills
  • Teamwork
  • Organization
  • Problem-solving
  • Writing
  • Planning
• Attitudes


  How you view situations or things around you. It is described as the predisposition or the tendency to act or behave in a certain way
• Components of attitudes


  • Cognition (your set of beliefs or perceptions)
  • Affects (how you feel about certain situations)
  • Behavior (actions caused by the way you think and how you feel)
• Personality traits


  Your essential qualities that make you different or unique. Certain personality traits may match certain careers because individuals would look for a working environment where they can exercise their skills or abilities and where they can express their values and attitudes
• Personality types


  • Realistic
  • Investigative
  • Artistic
  • Social
  • Enterprising
  • Conventional
• Realistic type


  • Enjoy activities where they can create and manipulate things by using their hands
  • Have mechanical abilities and prefer automobile and mechanic, aircraft control, surveying, farming, electrical, and electronic activities
• Investigative type


  • Prefer occupations that focus on scientific endeavors
  • Like activities that require observation, analysis, and creative investigation
  • Described as analytical, independent, introvert, rational, methodical, curious, and reserve
• Artistic type


  • Prefer activities that are free, unsystematic, and creative
  • Enjoy activities where they can express freedom and originality
  • Described as imaginative, emotional, nonconforming, expressive, independent, open, idealistic, and original
• Social type


  • Prefer activities that will help others to develop and be enlightened
  • Concerned about the welfare of others and are competent in dealing with people
  • Described as convincing, responsible, patient, helpful, understanding, cooperative, friendly, kind, and sympathetic
• Enterprising type


  • Prefer activities that influence or convince others to achieve organization and economic growth
  • Allows them to acquire leadership, interpersonal, and persuasive skills
  • Described as enthusiastic, energetic, ambitious, extrovert, impulsive, self-confident, and adventurous
• Conventional type

  • Prefer activities that are structured and orderly
  • Enjoy activities that are accurate; they keep very organized records
  • Described as thrifty, efficient, careful, orderly, conforming, inhibited, conscientious, and obedient
• The brain controls everything we do, including tasks like talking and walking to complex activities like problem-solving and decision-making
• The brain has three major parts: brainstem, cerebellum, and cerebrum
• Brainstem


  An area located at the base of the brain that contains structures vital for involuntary functions such as the heartbeat and breathing
• Cerebellum


  A fist-sized portion of the brain located at the back of the head that coordinates voluntary muscle movements and maintains posture and balance. It is also involved in learned movements.
• Cerebrum


  The largest part of the brain that receives and gives meaning to information from the sense organs and controls the body. It is also involved in functions like memory, reasoning, and emotional control.
• Cerebral cortex


  The outer layer of the cerebrum that consists of four lobes: frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and occipital lobe.
• Cerebral hemispheres


  The two halves of the cerebrum connected by the corpus callosum that functions as a bridge for the hemispheres to communicate and coordinate activities.
• Characteristics of left-brained and right-brained people

  • Left-brained: more logical, analytical, and objective
  • Right-brained: more intuitive, thoughtful, and subjective

  
• functions of frontal lobe

  decision making, impulse control, judgement
• functions of parietal lobe

  sensory perception, movement
• functions of occipital lobe


  primarily vision
• functions of temporal lobe

  language, emotion, hearing, memory