The document discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted different career sectors in the economy. It explains that the primary sector involving agriculture and oil have been less affected, while manufacturing, tourism, aviation, and retail have been hit hard due to lockdowns and travel restrictions. It also notes that healthcare, IT, research, and online industries have grown during the pandemic. The document advises students to consider these changes when choosing a career and ensure they prepare adequately for their intended profession.
2. Career Choice
Your career choice will reflect
the roles that you will take to
contribute to the progress
of society and the economy
as a whole.
3. Career Choice
The career or profession of
the people living in the
society dictates the level of
its economic status which
eventually gives impact the
economy on a larger scale.
4. At the onset of this
pandemic, there are jobs or
professions that are hardest
hit and there are those that
survived.
Career Choice
5. The three (3) Sectors of our economy have
eventually reacted to the presence of this pandemic
which will eventually affect your choice of career.
Primary Sector
Industries Production
Secondary Tertiary Sector
Sector
Service
7. You must be aware that
farmers have the greater
chances of surviving
because they have the
supply of foods ranging
from rice,
vegetables and fruits.
Agriculture
8. This sector has been
to the
affected due
paralyzed transportation
and is still in its very limited
operation until almost a
year of the covid-19
pandemic.
Petroleum
and Oil
10. Importation and exportation
issues,staffing
difficulty and limited workers
stood out as the key concerns
for this kind of business due to
disruption to supply chains,
quarantine protocols,and self-
isolation policies.
Manufacturing
Industry
12. Covid-19 has affected all
levels of the education
system,from
preschool to tertiary
education and even
those at the post-
graduate level.
Education
13. Different modes of teaching
and learning were introduced
but adjusting to this
new normal trend takes
longer especially to those
who are not digitally oriented
teachers.
Education
14. Many of the bank employees
are forced to resume
working on-site in several
banks observing the IATF
rules and protocols.Some of
them have contracted the
virus due to the working
environment which utilizes
air-conditioning units inside
their work premises.
Finance
Industry
15. Hotels and Resorts all
around the world have
announced a temporary
suspension but is now
slowly going back its
operation
but in a very limited and
cautious manner.
Hospitality,
Tourism and
Aviation
16. Tourism was one of the
most in-demand jobs
before covid-19 hit the
world.In our career
guidance in the past,
students preferred to take
tourism due to its many
opportunities.
Hospitality,
Tourism and
Aviation
17. The travel industry is
grappling with an
unprecedented wave of
cancellations and a
significant drop in demand
amid strict governmental
instructions to implement
social distancing and the
restriction of unnecessary
travel.
Hospitality,
Tourism and
Aviation
18. The real estate industry is
facing great uncertainty due
to COVID-19.With the current
trend however,people have
learned to use online mode of
selling which includes real -
estate and the housing
sector.
Real-estate
and Housing
sector
19. With the current trend
however,people have
learned to use online mode of
selling which includes real-
estate and the
housing sector.
Real-estate
and Housing
sector
20. For students in the Sports
track aspiring to pursue a
career in this field,you have
to consider that this
pandemic has greatly
affected the conduct of sport
not only locally but
worldwide.
Sports
industry
21. When WHO raised COVD-19's
status to a pandemic,more
companies and academic
institutions have raced to
develop an effective vaccine.
Information
Technology,Media,
Research and
development
22. At the onset of this
pandemic,the food sector,
including food distribution
and retailing has been under
strain as a result of people
panic-buying and stockpiling
food.
Food sector
23. Question to Ponder:
How can Ibetter
prepare myself for the
career/profession that
Iintend to take?
