M8: Career Development

• Knowing and understanding oneself is just the start of getting a clearer picture of one's career path. One must also acknowledge the external factors which originate from beyond oneself or "someone or something outside the individual".
• Personal development


  The process of improving oneself and becoming a better version of oneself
• Guidelines for career planning

  1. Set personal goals

  2. Set smaller goals

  3. Stay on course

  4. Achieve goals
• Creative visualization


  • The process of looking forward and seeing your desires and aspirations happening
• Making a firm stand on career choices

  Career choice should be taken seriously
• Developing yourself personally


  A state of being developed or progressed into a higher level, a better standard of oneself
• Lasallian core values: Zeal for service
• Zeal is the active expression of faith in gospel witness and service, oriented towards the integral salvation of persons, particularly the poor and the excluded
• Zeal is the enthusiastic and total gift of self for the sake of the mission expressed in such qualities as gratuity and generosity, creativity and fortitude, compassion, and commitment
• Additional resources: Personal Development: A Worktext for Senior High School Students, Personal Development: A Journey to Self-Awakening
• References: Making vocational choices: A theory of vocational personalities and work environments, Social Psychology