1. Careers and Career Choices
Lesson Outcomes:
How to plan a career
Requirements for the NSC
How to gain access to higher education
What are life domains
Socio-economic factors affecting study and career
choices

2. Career Planning
O Planning is an important component of
career choice.
O What is the next step to achieving your
career goals?
O Will you be able to study further?
O Have you done the research of how you
will be able to reach those goals to
continue on your career path

3. Career Planning
 Career planning is about:
O The directions you take in life (what you
will study, if you will work, the kind of
friends you have etc.)
O The challenges you overcome that get in
your way (peer pressure, low marks,
application rejection, drugs, teen
pregnancy etc.)
O The steps you take to reach your goals in
life

4. Six steps to Career Planning
 Step 1: Take a career assessment test at
your school
O Some of you would have done it last year
when you were choosing your subjects.
O It gives you a idea as to what your
strengths may lie in.
O Does not always align with what your
passions may be.

5. Six steps to Career Planning
 Step 2: Research yourself – develop an
understanding of who you are, what your
interests and passions are and what you
must do with your life.
O This would be part of your self concept
O It would include things like whether you
want a well paying job, if you want to work
for government, in doors or outdoors etc.

6. Six steps to Career Planning
 Step 3: Decide on your career goals.
Careers organisations can help you with
identifying suitable courses, or you
teachers can help to organise a course at
your school.
O At KHS we hold career expos and
university/technicon/college expos to
show our students what is out there in the
career field
O Universities/technicons/colleges also host
career expos on their campuses.

7. Six steps to Career Planning
 Step 4: Explore the current job market
and find out the latest career trends.
O You can do this through different websites
like
O www.pacecareers.com/uj/JobTrendSA.asp
x
O www.careerhelp.org.za
O www.statssa.gov.za

8. Six steps to Career Planning
 Step 5: Attend a career decision-making
workshop, such as at a university or
college or at a career centre.
O This happens during your grade 9 year as
we do the Holland's tests to help
determine what your ideal career sector
may be.
O Some universities have departments
dedicated to career decisions and
workshops.

9. Six steps to Career Planning
 Step 6: Complete a plan of action for your
future – this should show the steps you
need to follow to reach your career goals.
O Ways to do this could be by:
O using a goal ladder that you were taught
last year.
O Flow charts in order of steps that need to
be completed
O Ordering steps using bullets or points

10. Requirements for the NSC
O This is the certificate you receive when
you have completed and passed your final
year of high school (grade 12) and is seen
as a school leaving certificate for any
South African student.
O To receive this certificate you would need
to complete and pass grades 10,11 and
12.

11. Structure of the National
Senior certificate
 Subjects:
O Six Subjects: 3 compulsory and three
electives
O Group A (compulsory): Home Language,
First Additional Language, Mathematics or
Mathematical literacy and Life Orientation.
O Group B (Elective): Physical Sciences,
Life Sciences, History, Geography, Visual
Art, Design, Economics, Business Studies,
Accounting, Consumer Studies, EGD, CAT.

12. Structure of the National
Senior certificate
 To obtain an NSC:
O Complete grades 10, 11 and 12 separately
O Comply with the external and internal assessment
requirements for grades 10, 11 and 12
 Requirements for Promotion to grades
10,11 and 12
 One official language at Home
Language level at 40%
 Two other subjects at 40% (Maths or
Maths lit and Afrikaans)
 Three subjects at 30% (Electives)

13. How to gain Access to Higher
Education
O There are certain minimum requirements
that you have to meet to be eligible to
study further.
O Some universities, technicons and
colleges might have addition requirements
for you to be able to apply and be
accepted like specific subject choices.

14. How to gain Access to Higher
Education
 Higher Certificate Courses
O NSC with a minimum of 30% in the language of
further study.
O Done at FET Colleges.
 Diploma Courses
O NSC with a minimum in the language of further
study.
O Achievement rating of 3 (40% - 49%) or better
in four recognised NSC Subjects.
O Done at FET Colleges and Universities of
Technology.

15. How to gain Access to Higher
Education
 Bachelor’s Degrees
O NSC with a minimum of 30% in the
language of further study.
O Achievement rating of 4 (50% - 59%) or
better in four designated subjects.
O Life orientation is not a designated subject
hence achievement is not considered for
entry into Bachelor’s degrees.

16. What are Life Domains?
 Multidimensional – our lives have many
aspects to them
 These are domains
O Being: the physical, psychological and
spiritual domain
O Becoming: The practical, leisure and
growth domain
O Belonging: The physical, social and
community domain

17. Being
 Who one is:
O Physical being: Physical health, personal
hygiene, nutrition, exercise, clothing and
physical appearance.
O Psychological being: Person’s psychological
health, feelings and evaluations concerning the
self.
O Spiritual Being: reflects personal values,
personal standards of conduct and spiritual
beliefs which may or may not be associated
with organised religions.

18. Becoming
 Purposeful activities carried out to achieve
personal goals, hopes and wishes
O Practical becoming: Day to day actions such
as domestic activities, work, school or volunteer
activities, and seeing to health or social needs.
O Leisure becoming: Promote relaxation and
stress reduction such as card games,
neighbourhood walks, and family visits or
longer duration activities like holidays.
O Growth becoming: Promote the improvement
or maintenance of knowledge or skills.

19. Belonging
 Peoples fit with their environments.
O Physical belonging: The connections people
have with their physical environments such as
their home, workplace, neighbourhood, school
and community.
O Social belonging: Links with social
environments such as the sense of acceptance
by intimate others, family, friends, co-workers,
neighbourhood and community
O Community belonging: Access to resources
normally available to community members such
as educational and recreational programs,
community activities, health and social
services, employment and adequate income.

20. Socio-economic factors
affecting study and career
choices
O Combination of social and economic
influences.
O Play an important role in your decisions
about your study fields and career
choices.
O Community needs: the needs of the
community can be turned into positive and
helpful career options. Your choice could
help uplift your community and help those
in need.

21. Affordability and availability of
finances to fund your further
studies
O If your parents are able to pay for your
further studies you are very fortunate and
should not waste the opportunity.
O If that is not possible, there are other
options:
O You could study part time or through
correspondence while working full time.
O You could work first, save up enough
money to study and the study full time.

22. Financial Assistances
 Bursaries and scholarships:
O awarded to deserving learners. These
students work hard and get top marks
receive bursaries or scholarships from
organisations or businesses.
O They normally set certain requirements or
criteria for the bursaries such as expecting
learners to work for them for a certain
number of years once their studies are
complete.

23. Financial Assistance
 Learnerships:
O Training systems that allow learners to gain
effective skills in the workplace.
O Gain on-the-job training and off-the-job
training.
O Work and study at the same time and gain
a qualification at the end of the period.

24. Financial Assistance
 Banks and other institutions:
O Offer study loans
O Interest rates are lower on study loans than
on other loans
O Once studying is complete and employed
work begins, the loan must be repaid along
with the interest accumulated on the loan.

25. Overcoming stereotyping and
disability in career choices
O Stereotyping: People have a fixed idea about
what other people of capable of or how they
should behave.
O Gender stereotyping plays a big role in
careers as for example in the mines women
are now allowed to go underground as it is
finally recognised that woman can the do the
job as well as men.
O People over come other forms of
discrimination such as disability making it
difficult to enter certain careers.

26. Income tax
O A person is expected to pay taxes on
monies earned.
O When you receive your salaries, certain
deductions have already been take off.
O Types of deductions:
O Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF)
O Pay As You Earn (PAYE)
O Payable to the South African revenue
Services (SARS)

27. Homework
O Find your current report
O Choose a career that you are interested in, and do
some research on it. (what its about, what do you
need in order to do the job, where will this career
take you, which industry will you work in etc)
O Compare your current marks to the requirements
of the career you chose. Does your aps score
match the requirements, or are your marks well
enough for a learner ship etc.
O The learner with the most exciting career choice,
will be allowed to dress in their professions attire!
O Due the next period you have with me!