PERDEV

• Career development


  An important aspect in your life's journey
• Career growth or development


  A process through which your distinct characteristics for work are performed
• Career development


  Aimed at achieving a fit between the person's characteristic (which includes personality traits, attitudes, values, needs, and interests) and work
• Personal Factors Influencing Career Choices


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


  Includes your traits and characteristics
• Personality traits


  Characteristics that make us unique or different from others
• Personality development is important for career success
• Your career choice should match your personality traits
• Personality assessment dimensions


  • Extraversion or introversion
  • Sensing or intuitive
  • Thinking or feeling
  • Judging or perceiving
• Extraversion or introversion


  Describes the way people deal with their environment, or how they direct their energies
• Sensing or intuitive


  Describes how we interpret the information we receive
• Thinking or feeling


  Describes how we decide
• Judging or perceiving


  Describes the way we make decisions
• Values


  The principles or standards that guide you in making choices and decisions in life
• Interests


  Activities that you enjoy doing
• Skills


  Abilities or proficiencies that have been developed through training or formal education
• Types of skills


  • Technical skills
  • Soft or functional skills
• Technical skills


  Knowledge of theories and capability to put into practice the theories learned in class
• Soft or functional skills


  Skills that help you move flexible at different stages of your career, including communication, teamwork, organization, problem-solving, writing, and planning
• Attitudes


  How you view situations or things around you, with components of cognition, affects, and behavior
• Personality traits or characteristics


  Your essential qualities that make you different or unique
• Certain personality traits may actually match certain careers because individuals would look for working environment where they can exercise their skills or abilities, and where they can express their values and attitudes
• Six personality types


  • Realistic Type
  • Investigative Type
  • Artistic Type
  • Social Type
  • Enterprising Type
  • Conventional Type
• Realistic Type


  • Enjoy activities where they can create and manipulate things by using their hands
  • Have mechanical abilities and prefer automobile and mechanic, aircraft control, surveying, farming, electrical, and electronic activities
  • Usually described as persistent, practical, genuine, conforming, hardheaded, shy, and frank
• Investigative Type

  • Prefer occupations that focus on scientific endeavors
  • Like activities that require observation, analysis, and creative investigation; thus they prefer jobs such as a biologist, chemist, physicist, medical technologist, surgeon, research analyst, mathematician, or statistician
  • Usually described as analytical, independent, introvert, rational, methodical, curious, and reserved
• Artistic Type


  • Usually prefer activities that are free, unsystematic, and creative
  • Enjoy activities where they can express freedom and originality; thus they prefer to work as being stage designer, orchestra member, composer, musician, interior designer, photographer, or actor
  • 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
  • Concerned about the welfare of others and are competent in dealing with people
  • Enjoy jobs such as teacher, counselor, social worker, trainer, psychologist, therapist, coordinator, librarian, and foreign service officer
  • Usually described as convincing, responsible, patient, helpful, understanding, cooperative, friendly, kind, and sympathetic
• Enterprising Type

  • Prefer activities that influence or convince others to achieve organization and economic growth
  • This preference allows them to acquire leadership, interpersonal, and persuasive skills; thus, they like jobs such as businessman, salesman, sports promoter, television or radio announcer, insurance manager, human resource officer, banker, real estate appraiser, and lawyer
  • Usually described as enthusiastic, energetic, pleasure seeking, domineering, acquisitive, ambitious, extrovert, impulsive self confident adventurous and popular
• Conventional Type


  • Prefer activities that are structured and orderly
  • Enjoy activities that are accurate; they keep very organized records; thus they like jobs such as being a bookkeeper, accountant, secretary, data processing worker, proofreader, financial analyst, banker, auditor, library assistant, and credit manager
  • Usually described as thrifty, efficient, careful, orderly, conforming, inhibited, conscientious, and obedient
• Walt Disney: 'If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.'
• Career development


  An important aspect in your life's journey
• Career growth or development


  A process through which your distinct characteristics for work are performed
• Career development


  Aimed at achieving a fit between the person's characteristic (which includes personality traits, attitudes, values, needs, and interests) and work
• Personal Factors Influencing Career Choices


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


  Includes your traits and characteristics
• Personality traits


  Characteristics that make us unique or different from others
• Personality development is important for career success
• Your career choice should match your personality traits
• Personality assessment dimensions

  • Extraversion or introversion
  • Sensing or intuitive
  • Thinking or feeling
  • Judging or perceiving
• Extraversion or introversion


  Describes the way people deal with their environment, or how they direct their energies