LESSON 1

• Career Development is the process of choosing a career, improving your skills, and advancing along a career path (McKay, 2020). It is a lifelong process of learning and decision-making that brings you closer to your ideal job, skillset, and lifestyle.
• Life goals are what we want to achieve, and they are much more meaningful than just 'what we need to accomplish to survive'. Unlike daily routines or short- term objectives, they drive our behaviors over the long run.
• Making Career Decision starts with knowing what is important to you (your values), what you enjoy (your interests), and what you do well (your skills). The pyramid below is a simple way to remember what is important in making career decisions.
• Career Development Concepts: Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory - This theory elaborates "self-efficacy," an individual's characteristic where a person performs in a certain level of work according to his/her confidence to accomplish a task. This "confidence" is an outcome of someone's past activities, experiences, and accomplishments where he/she develops a certain level of performance.
• Career Development Concepts: Super's Career Development Theory - Donald Super's theory postulates that a person undergoes several stages in career development. Synthesizing into five, Super outlines five developmental stages that occur in the career development of an individual.
• Super's Career Development Theory

  
• Career Development Concepts: Holland's Theory of Vocational Choice - Proposed by John L. Holland, this theory emphasizes the relationship between personality and the world of work. Essentially, the Theory of Vocational Personalities in Work Environment discusses that an individual looks for an environment that is attached to his/her personality, personal characteristics, and view of the world. (Part 1)
• Career Development Concepts: Holland's Theory of Vocational Choice - In a nutshell, the theory explicitly identifies that the more related the personal orientations of a person is to his chosen career, the higher the degree of satisfaction and persistence is seen in his/her performance. (Part 2)
• Career Development Factors: Personal - Students' personal preferences play as a vital factor in career development. His/Her self-assessment contributes to his/her career choice hence personal decision making. As discussed in the preceding modules, personality traits develop one's way of thinking and acting, directing an individual to choosing a career option he/she finds himself/herself best for.
• Career Development Factors: Familial - Since humans are social in nature and that people are at times influenced by their surroundings, leaning to a certain career path may be affected by familial factors. Having that said so, some students may anchor their decisions with the environment where they grew up or where they are exposed to.
• Career Development Factors: Work Values - Students' personal insights serve as a factor in choosing a career path and achieving personal goals. Work values are your principles and ideas that are related to your career. These cover honesty, service, self-respect, respect for others, peace, and success.
• Career Development Factors: Personality Types - These are also factors to consider in identifying career options. One of the ways to identify your personality is by using the E-N-F-P Personality Type Code. These mean the following:
• Career Development Factors: Extroversion -Motivation comes from the outside and you are fond of interactions.
• Career Development Factors: Intuition - Possibilities in the future are given heavy considerations because you can sense evidences more than the five senses can provide you.
• Career Development Factors: Feeling - Decisions are accounted for by consulting your feelings and values.
• Career Development Factors: Perceiving - Planning is not considered because you take spontaneity and flexibility as your strongest edge.
• Career Development Factors: Interests - When identifying workplace where you are not passionate about, you must ensure that your career choice is inclined to your interests for the tasks to be lighter, to be enjoyable at that.
• Career Development Factors: Aptitudes - It may give you wider opportunities to fit yourself in your career choice. Since no shoes fit all feet, you have to think and rethink whether your aptitude is what your career choice requires or your career choice is what your aptitude is suited to.
• Causes of Job Dissatisfaction: Loss of Motivation/Lack of Interest/Frustration - An individual may lose the zest and enthusiasm in working when he/she feels that the career culture where he/she is into is not where she should be.
• Career Development Factors: Academic - Experiences in the educational platform also serves as a factor in career development as students’ competencies are challenged yet honed in schools. Students create a huge sense of evaluation within themselves by checking and reviewing their academic performances. By so doing, there is a clear assistance on their strengths and weaknesses which they may use in choosing and developing a career they think is suited to them.
• Causes of Job Dissatisfaction: Poor Productivity/Absenteeism - As a challenging effect of wrong career choice, a person may partially or totally waste time and money as he/she may not want to perform in the career any longer.
• Cause of Job Dissatisfaction: High Turnover Rates - When a company has failed to assess its employees and motivate them in such a way that they would individually contribute for the growth of the institution, employees resigning one by one may eventually result to high turnover rates.