Career Development
Quarter 2 Module 4
Objectives
• Explain that through understanding of the concepts of career and life
goals can help in planning his/her career.
• Identify the personal factors influencing career choices.
• Take a self-assessment tool to know his/her personality traits and
other personal factors in in relation to his/her life goals.
What is your Personality Type
1. Are you outwardly or inwardly
focused?
Extraversion (E) Introversion (I)
-Could be describe as talkative, -Could be describe as reserved,
outgoing private
-Tend to work out ideas with -Tend to think things through
other, think out loud inside your head
2. How do you prefer to take in
information ?
Sensing (S) Intuition (N)
-Focus on the on the reality of -Imagine the possibilities
how things are on how things could be
-Pay attention to concrete facts -Like to describe things in
and details a figurative way, poetic way
3. How do you prefer to make Feeling (F)
decision? -Base your decision on
personal value and how your
Thinking (T) action affect others
-Make decision in an -Like to please others and point
impersonal way, using logical out the best in people
reasoning
-Finding flaws in an argument
4. How do you prefer to live your
outer life?
Judging (J) Perceiving (P)
-Think rules and deadline -Like to improvise and make
should be respected things up as you go
-Make olans want to know -See rules and deadlines as
what you’re getting into flexible
What is your Personality Type?
Career Goal
• is a well-defined statement explaining the profession that an
• individual intends to pursue throughout his career. – desired result a
person predicts, plans, and commits to achieve a personal desired
end-point;
• It is similar to purpose or aim, the anticipated result which guides
reaction, or an end to come up with effective action plans.
• GOAL = YOUR DREAM/S + ACTION STEPS + TARGET DATE
Career Development
• is a study of career paths, success, and behavior.
• Aims to explain why a person might be a good fit for a certain career.
• Lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure and transitions in
order to move toward a personally determined and evolving
preferred future.
Career Development Theory Comes from:
• Differential Psychology- is interested in work and occupation
• Personality Psychology- views an individuals as an organizer of their
own experiences
• Social Psychology- social action and on the interrelation of
personality, values, and mind with social structure and culture.
• Developmental Psychology- is concern with “life course.”
Career Selection
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect
them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will
somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something- your
gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
-Steve Jobs
Factors in Choosing a Career
• Self-awareness this involves looking at your SKILLS, VALUES,INTERESTS and
PERSONALITY and analyzing where your strengths and weaknesses lie.
• Opportunity/Awareness- Once you have done some preliminary self-
analysis, the next stage is to gather information on the opportunitiesopen
to you.
• Decision-making – Consider suggestions from others, they could bring up
some possibilities that you haven’t considered before.
• Taking Action- This is the final process of career planning. It Involves:
1. Finding out about the employers that offer the types of jobs or careers
you are interested in You can search through online job applications.
2. Preparing applications and attending interviews.
3. Perhaps taking aptitude tests.
Factors Affecting Career Choices
1. 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.
2. Personal Preferences Sometimes is greatly being affected by the
wants of parents for their children. Peer pressure is also one factor that
influences a certain individual.
3. Motivation- The drive to fulfill one’s fullest potentials is the best
motivation any person can ever have in living a meaningful life. A
person without any motivation will end up wasting a life of unfulfilled
potentials.
4. Self-confidence- “Yes I Can!” Notwithstanding the challenges as
adolescent faces after high school, the self-confident person will keep
his eyes in his goals and declare to the world that he can do it and will
succeed in the pursuit of his dreams.
5. Personal Skills- As children, we already learned certain skills just by
observing our parents and siblings, classmates, friends and school
authorities. Be aware of the inherent skills that you have.
