Name: _________________________________ Grade &Section: _________________
SUBJECT AREA PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
MODULE NUMBER MODULE 4
CONTENT STANDARDS The concepts of career development, life goals, and personal
factors influencing career choices
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Set a personal career goal based on the results of self-
assessment of various personal factors
LEARNING COMPETENCY 1) explain that understanding different factors, career
development concepts and personal life goals influence career
planning and decision-making; EsP-PD11/12PC-IIf-12.1
2) prepare a career plan based on the identified career options to
attain personal life’s goals. EsP-PD11/12PC-IIg-12.3
OBJECTIVES 1. Identify factors influencing career planning and decision
making; and
2. Create specific, measurable, achievable, and relevant
activities to achieve your identified goals by a certain
timeframe.
3. Value the importance of career planning and decision
making.
Discussion
Relationship with family, friends, and others is part of personality development that gives a
clear vision of your goal and aspiration in life. Since you already know your roles in building
and maintaining social, personal, and family relationship, we will now explore your, interest,
career choice, and factors that affect your decision-making in achieving your dreams. This
chapter will give you a better understanding of yourself based on external and internal
factors that may contribute to your future career-- it needs careful analysis of chances and
opportunities based on your knowledge interest, abilities, talent, and skills.
However, before focusing on your choice of career, you need to identify the different factors
that may affect your career planning and decision-making pro.
Factors that Influence Career-planning and Decision-making
a. Parental Autonomy: Parental monitoring is associated to parental protection where
sometimes parents decide on what course their child should take in college because of the
promising career waiting ahead. Preventing their children to commit mistakes because of
their opposing values may influence a career path. If there is tension between parents and
child, the adolescent will inhibit and become unsure to themselves because they are not
happy with the choice of career. The need for parents’ guidance and support are absent that
lead to the adolescent giving up his study and dreams in life.
Bear in mind that the parents’ role in choosing their child’s career is very important as they
are the ones who know their child’s abilities, interest, aspirations, strengths, and
weaknesses. Although many parents would be willing let their child choose his/her own
career for they believe that their child knows what he/she wants more than anyone else.
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b. Financial Hardship: This the major problem of every Filipino family in sending their
children to school particularly in college. According to study of PSA of 2017, five out of 10
Filipino families are deprived to basic education. Even though the government made a law
for Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act (R.A. 10931), that aim to help Filipino
students to provide free tuition fees and other school fees, many high school graduates still
get derailed from their journey to college education. Parents cannot afford to support the
daily expenses of a college student because of unstable financial source. That is why
students choose to earn money to help and provide the family for their living. But there are
students who have strong grit (passion and sustained persistence) to continue their
education despite of their financial situation. They consistently fight to find ways that can
support their studies and overcome adversity.
c. Change in Family roles: There are children who are products of broken family that result
to even more problems. Most of them cannot continue their education because only one
parent supports the family. Sometimes, there are students who cannot continue education,
because they need to take over their parents’ obligation to their family. At times, even if they
value education, only one student can be sent to school.
Since some teenagers do not have parents who will care and guide them, they tend to get
involved in early relationships which result to low academic performance, disobedience, and
even early pregnancy.
d. School Location: the proximity or distance of the school from the home is also a key
factor. Since most universities and colleges are located in cities, adolescents have to decide
to leave their homes and be away from their families just in order to study.
e. Academic Performance: There are courses that have grade requirements that serve as
a basis of your career preference. Academic performance during high school which does not
meet these requirements or standards tends to influence career paths.
f. Employment Rate: Career choice may also be influenced by the market demand on man
power. One also appraises the benefits a company can give like salary offer, compensation,
and others career development. Expect that there is always competition for others also
pursue what you wish to achieve. Keep in mind also that when there is limited supply of
labor in a specific knowledge or skill, there will be a higher price command. Being equipped
with different skills, talents, and knowledge is an edge to applicants. That is why there are
students who equip themselves with different skills by enrolling to technical vocational
courses or perhaps get a part-time job while they are in formal education.
f. Herd Mentality: Sometimes, adolescents are easily swayed by their peers. The fear of
being separated from the group of friends may influence choosing a career. At this moment,
it is important to have parental guidance.
g. Self-sabotage is defined as losing self-confidence and self-esteem. Self-sabotage is a
negative self-talk where in one avoids mistakes and negative feedback which are given to
improve performance. Sometimes, it reaches to a point that one becomes feeling pathetic,
ineffective, faulty, and purposeless. It’s better get an advice from your parent/s or other
people who can give reliable advice so that you could have a clearer understanding of your
own strengths and weaknesses.
Every individual has a goal in life—an envisioned and created enthusiasm to continue life
development and learning. These are long-term goals which sometimes are achieved by
accomplishing short-term goals. Career planning is connected with achieving career path
and should go together with personal goals. It must be done in specific, measurable, doable,
relevant, and time-bounded approach to easily track the progress in attaining success.
Guided Activities
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Activity 1:
1) What do you want to become in ten (10) to fifteen (15) years from now?
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2) How are you going to get there? What do you need to be there?
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3) Who inspires you? Whose footsteps will you follow? Why?
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4) Explain how education, goals, motivation, interests, skills, and vision influence one’s
decision to pursue a career.
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Activity 2:
Review the worksheet below and fill in the blank sections to the best of your ability. Write at
least 3 long - term and 3 short-term goals.
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Application
Make a Career Plan by following this figure. Write it on the box below
1. Knowing yourself
Assess yourself to know who you are and what you want. It also means understanding your
strengths and weaknesses, your passions and fears, your desires and dreams, your likes
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and dislikes, and your tolerances and limitations. Knowing yourself means knowing your
purpose in life.
2. Exploring your options
Discover careers to find what you really want. Assess your skills and
interest. Focus on what you want to do and how to get there. Learn the
skills needed to pursue the career of your dreams.
3. Making Decisions
It is the process of making logical choices from the available options by identifying a
decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions.
4. Moving On
It is more about learning to live and managing your career to help yourself succeed.
My Personal Plan
Additional Activity/ies
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Conduct a short survey consisting of 20 persons. Ask to your respondents: “If you were an
employer, what are the five most outstanding characteristics that you will look for in
an employee?” The survey may be conducted through social media messaging applications
or by personally asking your respondents. For visual presentation, rank the ten most popular
responses that you will harvest from your respondents. Afterwards, write a one-paragraph
reflection in relation to the top answers of your respondents.
