WHOLE BRAIN LEARNING SYSTEM

OUTCOME-BASED EDUCATION
PERSONAL GRADE
DEVELOPMENT 11/12

2
LEARNING QUARTER

MODULE WEEK 7

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 MODULE IN
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
11/12

QUARTER 2
WEEK 7

Career Pathways: External Factors

Affecting Career Choice Pros and
Cons of Some Career Choices

Development Teams
Writers: Liza A. Pagurayan Maybellinda G. Albano
Jayne E. Ventura
Editor: Julianne Grace B. Bugaoisan
Reviewer: Sherberk F. Cabrales
Layout Artist: Arsendio A. Cabacungan
Management Team:
Vilma D. Eda Arnel S. Bandiola
Lourdes B. Arucan Juanito V. Labao
Arsendio A. Cabacungan

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 What I Need to Know

What This Module is About

For the learner:

When you choose a career, there are many things that you need to consider: the kind of work
and its environment, the type of people you want to work with, the nature of the job and its
benefits, the skills and training needed, and the educational attainment required. These are only
few of the number of external factors which are creatively integrated to the deep insights and
factors in your personal development which may guide you in the planning and making of a
career decision as an adolescent.

With this module, you will explore the external factors and the insights of personal
development affecting your decision in choosing a career and identify the advantages and
disadvantages of your career options with the help of important people around you which you
may need to design a career plan based on your personal goals.

At the end of lesson, you will be able to:

1. discuss the external factors influencing career choices that may help you in career
decision making; (EsP-PD11/12CP-IIg-13.1)
2. identify pros and cons of various career options with the guidance of parent, teacher,
or counselor; and (EsP-PD11/12CP-IIg-13.2)
3. prepare a career plan based on your personal goal and external factors
influencing career choices. (EsP-PD11/12CP-IIg-13.3)

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 What I Know

PRE- TEST
Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the correct answer in answer sheet.
1. People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with object, machines,
tools, plants and animals, or be outdoors. What category was described in the first
statement?
A. Artistic B. Investigative C. Realistic D. Social
2. They are the people who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability,
prefer to carry things out in detail or follow through on others’ instructions.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
3. People who like to work with people – influencing, persuading, performing,
leading, or managing for organizational goals or for economic gain.
A. Investigative B. Enterprising C. Social D. Realistic
4. People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve
problems.
A. Conventional B. Enterprising C. Investigative D. Realistic
5. People who have artistic, innovating, or intuitional abilities, and like to work in
unstructured situations using their imaginations or creativity.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
6. People who like to work with people – to inform, enlighten, help, train,
develop, or cure them or are skilled with words.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
7. An integrated collection of programs and services intended to develop student’s core
academic, technical and employability skills; provide them with continuous education,
training; and place them in high-demand, high- opportunity jobs.
A. Career Pathways B. Guidance and Counseling
C. Health and Wellness D. Sports Development
8. This will help sort out priorities in life. It may include short-term and long-term goals
or life-long aspirations.
A. Career Development B. Personal Mission Statement
C. Philosophy in Life D. Vision and Mission
9. It covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and
potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life
and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations.
A. Career Development B. Educational Plan
C. Community Development D. Personal Development
10. All are external factors influencing career choices except
A. Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health
B. Gender, Interest and Personality Type
C. Life Roles, Skills and Abilities, Culture
D. Previous Experiences and Childhood Fantasies

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 Lesson Career Pathways: External

1 Factors Affecting Career

Choice Pros and Cons of
Some Career Choices
Career decision and selection of career pathways remain to be a big problem for you,
your parents, and other authorities around you due to varied external factors, work
environments and interests affecting you in the process.
In this lesson, you will explore all these factors and study the advantages and
disadvantages of different working environments that will help you in your career planning and
development.

What’s In

In the previous lesson, you explored the personal or internal factors and the career
interest areas affecting your career choices, in order to understand further the concepts of career
and life goals which are relatively important in the planning of career development. To complete
the whole process, you need to explore the external factors influencing career choices that may
help you in career decision making, identify the advantages and disadvantages of career options
necessary to prepare for a career plan.

What’s New

Activity 1.1 Essay Writing – A Puzzled Mind …

Directions: Write an essay by answering all the questions below in no particular order. Create
your own title and write your answer in your journal notebook.

What do you want to be when you grow up? What is it important to you?

What affects your choices?

What hinders you to choose
What would you like to do?

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What are you interested in? What do you need to know?

(Essay Title)

What is It

What influences Your Career Choices?

There are a lot of external factors to consider in career development. As you go through the
different factors below, you will see how they affect or influence your career choices. You will
also identify which among these factors have least and big impact to your career options.
Skills and Abilities

Skills and abilities are the things you naturally do well, talents and strengths that you
possess. These can include natural capabilities you've always had or acquired through
experience and training.
Interest and Personality Type

Are your interests and personality type compatible with your career choice? You need
to know what makes you happy and be motivated every day. Learning about your interest and
personality leads you to better choose a working environment that fits you.
Life Roles

You play multiple roles in your lives and that these roles change over the course of
time. How you think about yourself on these roles may influence how you look at careers in
general and how you make choices for yourself.

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Previous Experiences

Having positive experiences and role models working in specific careers may influence
you on the set of careers you consider as options for yourself. If you have proven success and
achieved positive self-esteem in a particular area of work, more likely, you will have it as a top
career option.
Culture

Racial and ethnic background, as well as the culture of your local community, and
extended family, may impact career your decisions. Culture often shapes your values and
expectations as they relate to many parts of your lives, including jobs and careers.
Gender

How you view yourself as an individual in terms of gender may influence both the
opportunities and obstacles you perceive as you make career decisions. Studies of gender and
career development are ongoing as the roles of men and women in the workplace evolve.
Social and Economic Conditions

All of your career choices take place within the context of society and the economy.
Changes in the economy and the resulting job market may also affect how your careers develop.
Childhood Fantasies

What do you want to be when you grow-up? You can remember this question during
your childhood years, and it may have influenced your thoughts about careers, then, as well as
in the present moment.
1. Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development
Reader 1st edition, What Influences Your Career Choice? by Melissa Venable (Quezon City:
Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House Inc., 2016), 104-105.

Activity 1.2 Reflectionnaire

Directions: In your journal notebook, answer the following questions.

1. What realizations do you have after reading the article on the external factors
affecting your career choices?

2. How do you think will this information be relevant to your career decision?

Activity 1.3 The Quick Job-Hunting Map: The Party

Directions: Below is an aerial view (from the floor above) of a room in which a party is taking
place. At this party, people with the same or similar interests have (for some reason) all gathered
in the same corners of the room. After looking over the room, answer the following questions
in your journal notebook.

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 1. Which group of people inside the party room would you choose to join and enjoy for
a long time? What are the traits do you like from these people you want to mingle
with?
2. After fifteen minutes of joining the party, everyone in the corner of the room leaves
to join another party, except you. Among the other groups in the corner of the room
who remain, which of them you want to join as your second option and why?
3. After another fifteen minutes, everyone in the group leaves again for another party,
except you. Among the other groups who are still there, which of them you want to
join for the last time and why?
4. The top three (3) chosen groups above, resemble your career paths in the future, cite the
advantages and disadvantages to each of your choice.
5. What are your realizations after the said activity?

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Psychologist John Holland classified jobs/careers/work environments into six:

1. Realistic (Do’er) – Prefers physical activities that require skill, strength, and coordination.
Traits include genuine, stable, conforming, and practical. Example professions include
architect, farmer, and engineer.

2. Investigative (Thinker) – Prefers working with the theory and information, thinking,
organizing, and understanding. Traits include analytical, curious, and independent.
Example professions include lawyer, mathematician, and professor.
3. Artistic (Creator) – Prefers creative, original, and unsystematic activities that allow
creative expression. Traits include imaginative, disorderly, idealistic, emotional, and
impractical. Example professions include artist, musician, and writer.

4. Social (Helper) – Prefers activities that involve helping, healing, or developing others.
Traits include cooperative, friendly, sociable, and understanding. Example
professions include counselor, doctor, and teacher.

5. Enterprising (Persuader) – Prefers competitive environments, leadership, influence,

selling, and status. Traits include ambitious, domineering, energetic, and self-confident.
Example professions include Management, Marketing, and Salesperson.

6. Conventional (Organizer) – Prefers precise, rule-regulated, orderly, and unambiguous

activities. Traits include conforming, efficient, practical, unimaginative, and inflexible.
Example professions include accountant, clerk and editor.
You are most happy when you are placed in jobs that match your personality. When
personality and occupation agree, employee satisfaction is high and there will be less turnover.
Holland’s Hexagon of Job Personalities

Holland created a hexagon view to show the relationships of job personality types.

Realistic Investigative

Conventional
Artistic

Enterprising Social

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 Notice that the job personality types closer to each other are more alike, while the job
personality types further away are least alike. You can see more clearly the relationships of job
personalities according to their placements on the hexagon. For example, for Realistic and
Social job personality types, you will see that they are virtually the opposite of each other. On
the other hand, Social and Artistic are located besides each other. This shows that realistic
and social job personality types are least alike, while social and artistic job personality types
are more alike.

Source: Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader 1 st

edition, Work/Occupational Environments and Interests by John Holland (Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks
Publishing House Inc., 2016), 122-126.

Activity 1.4 Compatible Work Environments for Your Job Personality

Directions: Based from Holland’s Hexagon of Job Personalities, what work environments are
most compatible, compatible, and least compatible with each of the personality type? Realistic
personality type is set as an example for you to follow. Answer in your journal notebook.

Most Compatible Least Compatible

Personality Compatible
Work Work
Type Work Environments
Environments Environments
• Investigative
Realistic Realistic Social
• Conventional
Investigative
Artistic
Social
Enterprising
Conventional

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Activity 1.5 Graphic Organizer

Directions: How does each of the following factors influence or affect your decision in
choosing a career? Copy the format of the graphic organizer to your journal notebook and fill
in the boxes with your answers. Then answer the processing questions that follow.

Me and

My Career

Abilities Childhood Culture Personality/ Gender Life Roles/ Social/Economic

Skills Fantasies Interests Experience Conditions

Processing Questions:

1. With the different factors affecting your career choice, which among them do you
think are less important and why?
2. Which of the factors do you consider has great impact to your career choice?
3. Which of the factors you need more time to work out in order to come up with a
decision on your career options?
4. What are your realizations after doing the activity?

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Activity 1.6 Career Collage

Directions: Create a Career Collage in a ¼ size illustration board summarizing and showing
the different external factors affecting a career choice and the career pathways based on
Holland’s Six Careers/Jobs/Work Environment.

Assessment

Multiple Choice

Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the correct answer in the space
provided before each number.

1. People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with object,
machines, tools, plants and animals, or be outdoors.
A. Artistic B. Investigative C. Realistic D. Social
2. People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, prefer to
carry things out in detail or follow through on others’ instructions.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
3. People who like to work with people – influencing, persuading, performing,
leading, or managing for organizational goals or for economic gain.
A. Investigative B. Enterprising C. Social D. Realistic
4. People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve
problems.
A. Conventional B. Enterprising C. Investigative D. Realistic
5. People who have artistic, innovating, or intuitional abilities, and like to work in
unstructured situations using their imaginations or creativity.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
6. People who like to work with people – to inform, enlighten, help, train,
develop, or cure them or are skilled with words.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
7. An integrated collection of programs and services intended to develop student’s core
academic, technical and employability skills; provide them with
continuous education, training; and place them in high-demand, high-
opportunity jobs.
A. Career Pathways C. Health and Wellness
B. Guidance and Counseling D. Sports Development

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 8. This will help sort out priorities in life. It may include short-term and long-term
goals or life-long aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Philosophy in Life
B. Personal Mission Statement D. Vision and Mission
9. It covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and
potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life
and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Community Development
B. Educational Plan D. Personal Development
10. All are external factors influencing career choices except
A. Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health
B. Gender, Interest and Personality Type
C. Life Roles, Skills and Abilities, Culture
D. Previous Experiences and Childhood Fantasies

Additional Activities

Directions: Do the following activities in your journal

Activity 1. Documented Interview with Preferred Career Practitioners

1. Do background research about the occupations by interviewing individuals who hold such jobs.
Find out the following information from the interview:

• Job Title/Position Title;

• Needed academic preparation;
• Skills, Knowledge, Abilities, expected competencies to succeed in the job;
• Demand for the Job;
• Benefits/Advantages of the Job;
• Difficulties and Challenges; and
• Expected Salary of a person occupying the position.

2. Write a narrative report of the interview you have conducted. Identify and explain your final career
option/choice.

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References

Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader 1st

edition. What Influences Your Career Choice? by Melissa Venable. Quezon City:
Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House Inc., 2016.

Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader 1st

edition. Work/Occupational Environments and Interests, by John Holland. Quezon
City: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House Inc., 2016.

Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader 1st

edition. Your Personal Mission Statement: You’re Never Too Young to Clarify Your
Life Goals and Aspirations, by Joe Villmow. Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks
Publishing House Inc., 2016.

Power, Rhett. “4 Reasons Why You Need a Personal Mission Statement.” February 19, 2016.
https://www.inc.com/rhett-power/4-reasons-why-you-need-a- personal-mission-
statement.html

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