2. Career
• Career is defined as a person's "course
or progress through life. It refers to a wide
aspect of one’s life, learning and work.
• Career is also used to describe an
occupation that involves special training or
formal education that leads to person’s life
work.
3. Career
•
• UNESCO defines career as the
“interaction of work roles and other life
roles over a person’s life span including
both paid and unpaid work in an
individual’s life”.
4. Career Development
• Career development involves learning
new skills, and making improvements
to help you in your career.
• Career development is an ongoing,
lifelong process to help a person learn
and achieve more in his career.
5. Career Counseling
• According to psychologydictionary.org,
career counseling is ”consultation with a
trained professional on specific goal-setting in
order to change or improve the direction of
one's career”.
• Career counseling is just one of the
services given under the Career Guidance
Program which aims to help students have a
total understanding of how a person plans and
explore the future in terms of work.
6. • Career preparation is not just a two-
step process.
Teachers must do activities in class that
promote the enhancement of self-
exploration, career exploration, career
matching, career decision making, and
school exploration.
7.
8. Are you prepared to assist your students in
their career planning?
Let’s review some career theories in the next
discussion…