Career Guidance

Career Guidance
Module 1
Factors Affecting Career and Life
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“I am convinced that every effort must be made in
childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For
one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds,
someone will do it for them.”
- Eleonor Roosevelt
Personal Factors
 Skills and abilities

Person’s Trait and Factor Theory of Occupational Choice
emphasized the importance of analysing one’s skills, values,
and personality and then match up these up to jobs which
use these.
Personal Factors
 Skills and abilities

Are you aware of your skills and abilities? Do you know
what you are capable of doing?
Person’s Trait and Factor Theory of Occupational Choice
emphasized the importance of analysing one’s skills, values,
and personality and then match up these up to jobs which
use these.
Personal Factors
 Interest and Personality

Do you know your interests and personality type?
Personal Factors

Holland’s Career Typology established a classification
system that matches personality characteristics and
personal preferences to job characteristics.
Most people are one of six personality types: realistic,
artistic, investigative, social, enterprising, and conventional.
Personal Factors

Holland’s Career Typology established a classification
system that matches personality characteristics and
personal preferences to job characteristics.
Most people are one of six personality types: realistic,
artistic, investigative, social, enterprising, and conventional.
Personal Factors
 Life Roles
What do you think your role in life– a leader? An
organizer? A mediator? A designer?
Personal Factors
According to Super’s Lifespan Theory, 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 we make choices for
ourselves.
Personal Factors
 Previous experiences
Did you think pursuing a task which you have been
successful in the past?
Personal Factors
One aspect of the Social Cognitive 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.
Personal Factors
 Childhood Fantasies
“What do you think to be when you grow up?”
Perhaps this frequently asked question during our
childhood years may have helped shape what we thought
we would be then, as well as later in life.
Family Factors
“The matter of choosing a career in the Philippines setting

is clearly a family affair.” Clemena, 2002
Family Factors
 Parental Influence
How many percent of your career decisions is influenced
by your parents?
Family Factors
 Parental Influence
Many children grow up idealizing the professions of
their parents. Parents may intentionally or unintentionally
push their child towards a particular career path, especially
in the cases of family- owned businesses where parents
expect pressure on their offspring to strive for particular
high- profile careers, feeling they encouraging their
children to reach high.
Family Factors
 Financial Resources
In choosing a career profession, there is a need to
consider the capability to support the course or career to
be pursued. Social Cognitive Theory and Social Learning
Theory address this and recognize that events that take
place in our lives may affect the choices available to us and
even dictate to a certain degree.
Family Factors
 Family Beliefs and Traditions

Beliefs and traditions is another family factor to
consider when making a career choice. It is tradition for
example that all male siblings in the clan take up
engineering courses. Being a family tradition, this could
somehow be relevant when making a career choice.
Social Factors
 Influence of Media / Technology

The influence of social media may have positive and
negative effects. Nowadays, career information is available
to 21st century learners. These information may be used or
may influence you in deciding their career.
Social Factors
 Influence of Friends and Peers

Peer pressure is common among learners. There are
learners who decide on the career to pursue based on the
opinion or choice of their friends.
Social Factors
 Industry demands and Expectations

Our career choices take place within the context of
society and the economy. Graduates have been practical in
considering the demands and expectations of the
industries before coming up with their career decisions.
These guide them in deciding what to do and where to go.

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 Skills and abilities

 Skills and abilities

 Interest and Personality

 Interest and Personality

 Interest and Personality

According to Super’s Lifespan Theory, how we think about

One aspect of the Social Cognitive Theory addresses the

“The matter of choosing a career in the Philippines setting

 Family Beliefs and Traditions

 Influence of Media / Technology

 Influence of Friends and Peers

 Industry demands and Expectations

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