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• Career


  A profession that a person may get into, either because he has found a good match between his life goals, skills, personality, and interests with a dream job, or it may just be a means to earn a living
• Career development


  • A life long process that integrates all our learning experiences through time
  • Includes the events we go through, the rules we play, the behavior we act out, the constant validation of who we are as a person, what inspires and motivates us, and what accomplishments give us fulfillments and meaning
• Four popular career development theories


  • Trait and factor theory
  • Personality type-work environment congruence theory
  • Social learning and career decision theory
  • Developmental or the life-span theory
• Trait and factor theory

  Skills, values, interests, and personality traits are analyzed and matched with job factors or an occupational profile
• Personality-work environment congruence theory

  An offshoot of Parson's Trait Factor Theory where John Holland identified six personality types that match the same six environments he identified: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional
• Social learning and career decision theory

  Based on Albert Bandura's theory of self-efficacy, which means that a person may exercise control over his or her thoughts, beliefs, and actions, and that self-efficacy is the predictor of behavior
• Developmental or the life-span theory


  Proposed by Donald Super who based the theory on the idea that people usually change careers during specific life stages as the need to express their constantly changing self-concepts occur as their careers mature
• Internal factors affecting one's choice of career

  • Self-concept or self-identity
  • Personal preferences
  • Motivation
  • Self-confidence
  • Personal skills
  • Personality traits
  • Personal health
  • Emotional considerations
  • Self-sabotaging thoughts
• Self-concept or self-identity


  If your self-identity is not as solid as it should be, then choosing a career or even a course to take up in college will be difficult
• Personal preferences


  You might decide to take up accountancy but your mother told you being a nurse, like one of your aunts, will provide you with more opportunities to earn much more money especially when you work abroad
• Motivation


  The drive to fulfill one's fullest potentials is the best motivation any person can ever have in living a meaningful life
• Self-confidence


  Notwithstanding the challenges of adolescent faces after high-school, the self confident person will keep his eyes on his goals, and declare to the world that he can do it and will succeed in the pursuit of his dreams
• Personal skills


  Basic education teaches us the hard skills we need to acquire so we may qualify for higher education, such as learning math and the sciences
• Personality traits


  Certain traits are compatible and matched with certain types of work or occupation according to Holland's trait factor theory
• Personal health


  The condition of your health is a major factor in the career choice you will make
• Emotional considerations


  Generally, it is difficult to make a decision when one is experiencing some strong emotions such as anger or sadness
• Self-sabotaging thoughts


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• Family structures


  A family has changed and continues to change as lifestyles, social norms, and standards are also shifting
• Parental authority and parenting styles

  Authoritative parenting is a key factor in the psychosocial development of an adolescent, and it is believed to foster a healthy and positive impact on the adolescent's development
• Authoritative parenting


  Exercising control over a child's behavior but not the child's emotions, beliefs, and self-concept
• Family heredity


  Intelligence is passed on through heredity, but is also influenced by other factors such as brain size and structure, and the compilation of many genes resulting in intelligence
• Personality traits


  There is a 40% to 50% chance of personality traits being passed on through heredity, such as temperament, which is the characteristic manner by which an individual looks at situations and how they react to them
• Genogram


  A graphical map of a family's history that traces and illustrates patterns in its structure and characteristics using special symbols to describe relationships, major events, diseases, traditions, social and personal beliefs and rituals, cultural heritage, religious beliefs and the dynamics of a family over several generations
• Possible traits to trace in your family

  • Physical characteristics
  • Genetic or external factors
  • Social and economic backgrounds
  • Religious values
  • Family values
  • Cultural background