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• Career


  The combination and sequence of roles played by a person during the course of a lifetime
• Career


  • Lifelong journey that includes your education, interests, jobs, occupations, recreational activities and volunteer work
• Why is it important to talk about careers?


  Your career can determine a lot of things in your life, like: 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, and the kind of balance you will be able to keep with your life and your responsibilities
• Career Development


  Ongoing process of managing your life, learning and work
• Career Development


  • Involves developing the skills and knowledge that enable you to plan and make informed decisions about your education, training and career choices
• Making Informed Decisions


  • Psychological Tests
  • Interview with Adults
  • Career Seminars
  • Trends in the Workplace
• Internal Factors that Influence Career Choices


  • Personality
  • Values
  • Personal Interests
  • Biological and genetic factors
  • Gender
  • Learning experiences
  • Outcome expectations
• External Factors that Influence Career Choices


  • Environment (Physical Environment and Culture)
  • Social & Economic Conditions/Opportunities
  • Media/Available References
  • Parents/Guardians/Family
  • Career Counseling
  • Peers
  • Other Emerging Factors or Trends that Affect Career Choices (i.e. religion, gender roles)
• Life Goals


  Sets the direction of where you want to go
• Having life goals could empower a person to direct his/her motivation and energy towards finding self-actualization through his/her chosen career
• Studies have shown that having a good plan of what a person would want to do in one's life and associating one's career choice and preparations to this have been found to lead to a self-fulfilling life in adulthood
• Skills and Abilities


  Need to fit the demands of a particular career field (occupational profiles)
• Skills and Abilities


  • Sales – social skills
  • CPA – analytical skills
• John Holland's Career Typology


  Widely used to connect personality types and career fields
• John Holland's Career Typology


  • Establishes a classification system that matches personality characteristics & personal preferences to job characteristics
  • The Holland Codes are six personality/career types that help describe a wide range of occupations (RIASEC)
• Donald Super's Lifespan theory


  Directly addresses the fact that we each play multiple roles in our lives and that these roles change over the course of our lives
• Donald Super's Five Life and Career Development Stages


  • Growth (0-14)
  • Exploration (15-24)
  • Establishment (25-44)
  • Maintenance (45-64)
  • Decline (65+)
• Exploration Stage (15-24)


  • Test or try various types of work through your classes and projects
  • On-the-job trainings and performance tasks provide an opportunity to: develop a mature perspective of time, acquire the ability to be patient and develop self-control, ability to negotiate, and an ability to identify with appropriate models of work behavior, make tentative choices as to what you really want to become after you graduate from high school
• John Krumboltz's Social Learning & Planned Happenstance theories


  Address factors related to our experiences with others and in previous work situations
• Having positive experiences and role models working in specific careers may influence the set of careers we consider as options for ourselves
• We are likely to consider continuing a particular task if we have had a positive experience doing it. In this way, we focus on areas in which we have had proven success and achieved positive self-esteem
• 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
• Culture often shapes our values and expectations as they relate to many parts of our lives, including jobs and careers
• In the Philippines, our collectivist orientation makes our family a strong influence in our career decisions
• More often than not, the choice of course to take in college, the location of our job, how strong-willed we will be in achieving great heights in our career, would most likely be influenced by our family roles, duties and obligations
• Gender


  Both men and women have experienced career-related stereotypes
• How we view ourselves as individuals may influence both the opportunities and barriers we perceive as we make career decisions
• Roles of men and women in the workforce, and in higher education, evolve
• Social and Economic Conditions


  All of our career choices take place within the context of society and the economy
• Social and Economic Conditions


  • Nursing boom
  • Globalization, ASEAN integration
• Events that take place in our lives may affect the choices available to us and even dictate our choices to a certain degree
• Changes in the economy and resulting job market may also affect how our careers develop
• Childhood Fantasies


  "What do you want to be when you grow-up?" This question may have helped shape how you thought about careers then, as well as later in life
• Eli Ginzberg proposed a theory that describes three life stages related to career development. The first stage, fantasy, where early ideas about careers are formed, takes place up to age 11
• The advice "follow your passion" is not good advice
• We are bad at predicting which jobs we'll be most happy in and most good at just by thinking about it
• Following your passions can cause you to be to narrow-minded in your search for work because you can only be passionate about activities you've already tried
• The degree of match between your interest and your work is not especially important for predicting where you'll be satisfied. Following one's passion causes us to overly focus on just one criterion
• At a young age, you probably haven't tried much of the world of work. Or you are passionate about something that is very hard to turn into a good job
• Factors which make us satisfied with our work


  • Engaging and Meaningful work - Variery, Autonomy, Sense of Completion, Feedback
  • Getting on with colleagues – Help; Meaningful relationships
  • Personal Fit - You are good with what you do
  • Hygiene Factors - Reasonable work hours, Job security, Commute, Pay