Perdev

• Career


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


  A process through which your distinct characteristics for work are formed. 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. Our personal mission statements include our purpose and principles in life. It answers the following questions: What do I believe or value in life? What do I want from life? Where do I want to go? How do I get there?
• Personal factors influencing career choices

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


  Your traits or characteristics that affect the way you do your work. There are careers that require certain personality traits
• 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. It is important to know your values. One way of knowing our values is by identifying the factors you consider important
• Interests


  Activities that you enjoy doing. These may include your likes or the things that motivate you. When your work is aligned with your interests, you will find your work exciting and challenging
• Skills


  Your abilities or proficiencies that have been developed through training technical or formal education. Skills are what you are good at. Skills may be grouped as technical skills or soft skills
• Technical skills


  • May include 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
• 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. These skills include communication skills, teamwork, organization, problem-solving, writing, planning
• Attitudes


  How you view situations or things around you. Attitudes have three components: cognition (your set of beliefs or perceptions), affects (how you feel about certain situations), and behavior (actions caused by the way you think and how you feel)
• Personality traits


  • 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. They 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. They like activities that require observation, analysis, and creative investigation. They are usually described as analytical, independent, introvert, rational, methodical, curious, and reserve
• Artistic type


  • Prefer activities that are free, unsystematic, and creative. They enjoy activities where they can express freedom and originality. They are usually described as imaginative, emotional, nonconforming, expressive, independent, open, idealistic, and original
• Social type


  • Prefer activities that will help others to develop and be enlightened. They are concerned about the welfare of others and are competent in dealing with people. They are usually described as convincing, responsible, patient, helpful, understanding, cooperative, friendly, kind, and sympathetic
• MIND


  the powers of the different parts of the brain and its functions
• THREE MAJOR PARTS OF THE BRAIN

  • Brainstem
  • cerebellum
  • 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. Its function is to coordinate voluntary muscle movements and to maintain posture and balance. It also involved learned movements.
• CEREBRUM


  • It is the largest part of the brain. It 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 which consists of four lobes: frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe.
• The cerebrum is divided into two halves called the cerebral hemispheres. The two hemispheres are connected by the corpus callosum that functions as the bridge by which the hemispheres communicate with each other and coordinate activities.
• LEFT BRAIN AND RIGHT BRAIN THEORY


  According to the theory, each side of the brain controls different types of thinking. People are said to prefer one type of thinking over the other.
• Left-brained thinker


  More logical, analytical, and objective
• Right-brained thinker


  More intuitive, thoughtful, and subjective