PERSONAL

DEVELOPMENT
Career Pathways
 What I Need to Know

Your career is the road-map that you follow

through your lifetime. There are a lot of things that
come into play when you are journeying through
this road: education, family life, friendships,
experiences, community activities and even
hobbies and leisure activities you involve yourself
in.

SOURCE:https://www.jing.fm/iclip/u2q8e6o0w7i1r5i1_pathway-clipart-future-plan-my-future-career/

LEARNING COMPETENCY:

Prepare a career plan based on the identified career options to attain personal life’s
goals.
EsP-PD11/12PC-IIg12.3

Explain the factors in personal development that may guide him/her in making
important career decisions adolescents.
EsP-PD11/12IOPD-IIi14.1

At the end of the module, you should be able to:

1. explain that understanding of the concepts of career and life goals can help
in planning your career;

2. make a career plan based on the identified career option to attain personal
life’s goals; and

3. take a self-assessment tool to know your personality traits and other personal
factors in relation to your goals.

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 What I Know

Today you will be exploring the facets through the use of several measures that
will examine your skills, abilities, interests and traits that will prove to be essential
information about the self that will be very helpful in planning your career.
AGREE OR DISAGREE
The objective of the game is to explore ideas about one’s future career by
agreeing or disagreeing about common misconceptions and facts about career
planning.
Use your activity notebook for this task.
1. Arts/humanities majors usually are unemployable after college
2. Selecting what's 'hot' at the moment is safe
3. Career assessments / counselors will not be of any use for me
4. If X is happy in a particular field, I will be happy too
5. If I wait long enough, luck will eventually bring me to the right career
6. Making a lot of money will make me happy
7. Once I choose a career I’ll be stuck in it forever
8. If I change careers my skills will be wasted
9. I will decide after the results are out
10. I love this hobby, but I don’t think I can make money out of it

Source: http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-career-10-
mythsabout-career-planning-busted/20120430.htm#1

What’s In

Processing:
1. What was the easiest/difficult statement to decide on? Why?
2. What made you agree/disagree with the statements?
3. What or who influenced you in making a decision as to whether to agree or
disagree on the statements read?

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 What’s New

CAREER
A career is defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a
person during the course of a lifetime (Super, 1980). Your career basically dictates a
lot of things in your life – it can determine 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, the kind of balance you will be able to keep with your life and your
responsibilities.
WHAT INFLUENCES YOUR CAREER CHOICE?
When we think about career choice, several things immediately come to mind -
job description, training and education required, career outlook, and salary – but there
are a number of other factors that may influence your decisions
Influence Factors
Skills and Abilities - Considering your skills and abilities and how they may fit a
particular occupation comes out of one of the earliest career development fields.
Interest and Personality Type - Holland's Career Typology is a widely used to
connect personality types and career fields. This theory establishes a classification
system that matches personality characteristics and personal preferences to job
characteristics. The Holland Codes are six personality/career types that help describe
a wide range of occupations.
Life Roles - Being a worker is just one of your life roles, in addition to others such as,
student, parent, and child. 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. How we think about ourselves in these roles, their requirements of them, and the
external forces that affect them, may influence how we look at careers in general and
how we make choices for ourselves.
Previous Experiences - Krumboltz's Social Learning and 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. One aspect of
Social Cognitive Career Theory addresses the fact that 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.
Our culture often shapes our values and expectations as they relate to many parts of
our lives, including jobs and careers.
Gender - Both men and women have experienced career-related stereotypes. Gender
is a factor included in multiple career development theories and approaches including,
Social Learning and multicultural career counseling. How we view ourselves as

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individuals may influence both the opportunities and barriers, we perceive as we make
career decisions. Studies of gender and career development are ongoing as 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. Several career theories, such as Social Cognitive
Career Theory and Social Learning, address this context in addition to other factors.
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? You may
remember this question from your childhood, and it may have helped shape how you
thought about careers then, as well as later in life. Career counseling theories are
expanding as programs related to career choice are developed for all ages, including
the very young. 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.
It’s important to understand that career choice is not made based on any one
factor. Our choices are subject to many influences – individual, cultural, social, and
environmental. The combination and interaction of various influences on your
decision-making are unique to you and your situation. There may also be multiple
options, several “good-fits” for you, instead of a single, right choice. Keep in mind that
as you change, learning and experiencing new things, and external factors change,
such as the economy, you will continue to revise and fine-tune your career choices.
there is a lot to consider, but you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Source: http://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/05/17/what-influences-yourcareer-choice/

What is It

Task 1: CAREER WHEEL

In your activity notebook, illustrate a career wheel. In the labeled circles, place
events, situations, needs and facts about yourself that you think will affect your
decisions when it comes to choosing your career in the future. You can write down
words or even phrases. You may draw and connect more circles if you need to do so.

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 TASK 1 MY CAREER WHEEL DATE:

Source: http://earlhaig.ca/departments/coop/1Documents/gr%2010%20careers/Career%20W
heel%20Assignment/building_careers.pdf

Answer the following questions on your quiz notebook based on the activity above.
1. How did you go about naming events, situations, needs and facts about yourself?
Were there challenges in doing this? If so, what are these challenges?_ _ .
2. Looking at these many facets in your life, which among them do you think are major
considerations when deciding on future career options? Why would you consider these
as a source of great impact? .
3. Which are the areas that will really work to your advantage in relation to the career
options that you are considering? How will these impact your choices? _ _.
4. What are your realizations after this exercise? .
Source:http://earlhaig.ca/departments/coop/1Documents/gr%2010%20careers/Career%20W
heel%20Assignment/building_careers.pdf

What’s More

Write your answers in your activity notebook.

1. Which of those factors you have are useful in your career choice? .
2. Which of those factors do you think could affect your career choice?_ _ .

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 What I Have Learned

WORK VALUES INVENTORY

Values are an important part in the career decision-making process. It is

important to select career options, which best fit your values. The list below will help
you to identify those values that you think will be important to you in your work. Your
work values may change as work situations change. It is important to evaluate your
work values often.
Read each value in the table below and decide if it is always important to you,
sort of important or not important to you. Place an “X” in the appropriate box. The
definition is there to help you think about the value. If your definition is different, use
your own definition when rating the value.

WORK VALUES INVENTORY DATE:

1.core values that are important to me in Always Sort of Not

my life are: Important Important Important
Achievement: Being able to meet your goals.
Balance: Time for family, work and play.
Independence: Control of your own destiny.
Influence: Able to have an impact on others.
Integrity: Stand up for your beliefs.
Honesty: Telling the truth and knowing that
others are telling the truth.
Power: Control over others.
Respect: Care and trust of self and others.
Spirituality: Believing in your core beliefs.
Status: Having influence and power over
others
Always Sort of Not
2. I value work environments that are:
Important Important Important
Fast Paced: Work that has many things
happening at one time.
Flexible: Work that is not set to a specific
time schedule.
High Earnings: Work that has the
potential to make a lot of money.
Learning: Work that is intellectually
challenging to you.
Location: Work that is in a convenient
place and an easy commute.
Predictable: Work where you know what
is going to happen day after day.
Quiet: Work where there are few
disruptions throughout the day.
Relaxed: Work where there are few

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pressures to get things done.
Structured: Work where it is organized
and has a specific set time.
Time Freedom: Work where you set
your own schedule and plan how and
when you do your work.
3. I value work interactions with co-workers Always Sort of Not
who support: Important Important Important
Competition: Work where you compete with
others.
Diversity: Work where there are people with
different ethnic backgrounds.
Friendships: Work where you socialize with
your co-workers.
Leadership: Work where there are good
leaders managing the organization.
Management: Work where there is strong
management.
Open Communication: Work where
information is not held back from employees.
Recognition: Work where you are
acknowledged for your work and contribution.
Support: Work where you help and support
each other.
Teamwork: Work where working together is
important.
Trust: Work where you can count on each
other.
Always Sort of Not
4. I value work activities that are: Important Important Important
Analytical: Work that requires
interpretation of data and information.
Challenging: Work that is mentally or
physically challenging.
Creative: Work that uses imagination
and creative talents to produce results.
Helping: Work that is helping people.
Leading Edge: Work on new and
innovative products or projects.
Physical: Work that has a lot of physical
activity.
Public Contact: Work that has daily
interaction with public.
Research: Work that searches for new
information.
Risk Taking: Work that may be dangerous
or risky.
Variety: Work where many different
tasks are done during the day.

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 What I Can Do

YOUR WORK VALUES PROFILE

Review that “Always Important” values and choose your top five values. Write
the values on the lines below with the most important value first. Check the line which
indicates the section the value is from.
My Top 5 Always Important Values: 1 2 3 4
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Adapted from: Personal Development Teacher’s Guide First Edition (Department of
Education, 2016) pp. 116-118

Assessment
AGREE OR DISAGREE

The objective of the game is to explore ideas about one’s future career by
agreeing or disagreeing about common misconceptions and facts about career
planning.
Use your activity notebook for this task.
1. Arts/humanities majors usually are unemployable after college
2. Selecting what's 'hot' at the moment is safe
3. Career assessments / counselors will not be of any use for me
4. If X is happy in a particular field, I will be happy too
5. If I wait long enough, luck will eventually bring me to the right career
6. Making a lot of money will make me happy
7. Once I choose a career I’ll be stuck in it forever
8. If I change careers my skills will be wasted
9. I will decide after the results are out
10. I love this hobby, but I don’t think I can make money out of it

Source: http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-career-10-
mythsabout-career-planning-busted/20120430.htm#1

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