Persons and careers

• Career


  The combination and sequence of roles played by a person during the course of a lifetime
• Your career basically dictates a lot of things in your life – it can determine the kind of lifestyle that you will be leading, the quality of relationships that you have with people around you like your family and friends, the kind of balance you will be able to keep with your life and your responsibilities
• Job

  A position an individual holds doing specific duties
• Occupation


  Similar work for which people have similar responsibilities and for which they develop a common set of skills and knowledge
• Factors influencing career choice

  • Skills and Abilities
  • Interest and Personality Type
  • Life Roles
  • Previous Experiences
  • Culture
  • Gender
  • Childhood Fantasies
• Skills and Abilities


  Considering your skills and abilities and how they may fit a particular occupation
• Interest and Personality Type


  Holland's Career Typology connects personality types and career fields
• Life Roles


  Being a worker is just one of your life roles, in addition to others such as, student, parent, and child
• Previous Experiences


  Having positive experiences and role models working in specific careers may influence the set of careers we consider as options for ourselves
• Culture


  Racial and ethnic background, as well as the culture of an individual's regional area, local community, and extended family, may impact career decisions
• Gender


  Both men and women have experienced career-related stereotypes
• Childhood Fantasies


  Early ideas about careers are formed up to age 11
• Skills matter in every streams
• What's hot today may not necessarily be 10/20 years later
• You must know what your aptitude is before choosing a career
• You are not X
• Procrastination is no substitute for laziness
• The ingredients of fulfilling career also includes passion and commitment to growth
• You are never too old to switch careers
• Being multi-skilled allows you to learn and adopt accordingly
• Impulsive decisions lack planning and direction
• If you love what you do, you will not feel like you are working