This document discusses factors that influence career choices and the importance of career planning. It defines key terms like career, job, occupation, and life goals. It outlines internal factors like interests, skills, and motivation, and external factors like family, finances, culture and the job market. The document encourages self-assessment to understand one's personality and how it relates to career goals. It emphasizes that career planning helps clarify short and long-term goals and leads to greater work satisfaction and happiness.
5. objectives
▸ Explain that understanding of the concepts of career and
life goals can help in career planning.
▸ 2. Identify the internal and external factors influencing
career choices.
▸ 3. Take a self-assessment tool to know one’s personality
traits and other personal factors in relation to one’s life
goals.
▸ 4. Identify career options based on the different factors,
career development concepts and personal goals.
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6. Activity: My Future! (answer in 1 phrase only)
▸ Imagine that you are retiring from
a job you have held for so many
years. How old do you think you
are that time?
▸ 2. What do you think you have
accomplished by then?
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7. Activity: My Future! (answer in 1 phrase only)
▸ 3. Do you consider yourself
successful? Why or why not?
▸ 4. How do you measure your
happiness or contentment at
the end of your career?
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8. ▸ Your career basically dictates a lot of
things in life. It can determine the kind
of lifestyle that you will be leading.
▸ It can also affect the quality of
relationships that you have with
people around you, like your family
and friends.
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9. Career Concepts
▸ CAREER is defined as the
combination and sequence of roles
played by a person during the
course of a lifetime.
▸ JOB is a position an individual
holds doing specific duties.
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10. Career Concepts
▸ OCCUPATION is defined as the similar
work for which people have similar
responsibilities and for which they develop
a common set of skills and knowledge.
▸ WORK -an activity that produces
something of value for oneself.
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11. LIFE GOALS are your dreams for your future and
they are more realistic versions of
dreams.
▸ Characteristics of a Realistic Life
Goal:
▸ 1. A life goal is attainable.
▸ 2. A life goal is time bound.
▸ 3. A life goal is specific.
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13. Is planning and career important?
▸ Careers dictate the amount of
salary a person can have.
▸ Careers also affect how happy
or satisfied a person can
become. 13
14. Is planning and career important?
▸ People who are forced into the job
or people who took-on a job simply
because it is where the money is,
are people who tend to experience
an unsatisfying work life.
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15. Is planning and career important?
▸ People who take careers that fit their
needs and wants in life are people
whom you see retiring happily in their
old-age.
▸ Career planning is a series of steps to
help you clarify and determine your
short and long – term career goals.
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Internal Factors:
1. Self-concept or self-identity
There is a need to know and
understand what you want to do or not
want to do.
Your values will also play a role in
your career choice.
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Internal Factors:
2. Interest and Personal Type /
Personal Preferences
A classification system that matches
personality characteristics and
personal preferences to job
characteristics.
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Internal Factors:
3. Motivation
The drive to fulfill one’s fullest
potentials is the best motivation
desire to improve the quality of their
family’s lives.
A person WITHOUT any motivation
will end up wasting a life of unfulfilled
potentials.
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Internal Factors:
4. Self confidence
keep his eyes on his goals, and
declare to the world, the universe
rather, that he can do it and will
succeed in the pursuit of his
dreams.
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Internal Factors:
5. Personal Skills and Abilities
Considering your skills and abilities and how they may fit
a particular occupation comes out of the earliest career
development fields.
Ask yourself what you like and enjoy doing.
The skill that you have may be hidden because some
people around you do not accept it or you may be afraid to
show it because you might be misjudged.
Have the courage to stand up and take the relevant course that
will hone your skills.
Be the master of your own destiny.
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Internal Factors:
8. Emotional Consideration
Check yourself when you are
deciding on what course to take.
It is always best to be levelheaded
and calm when making these life-
directing decisions.
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Internal Factors:
9. Previous Experiences
Having positive experiences and role
models working in specific careers may
influence the set of careers we consider
as options for ourselves.
focus on areas in which we have had
proven success and achieved positive self-
esteem.
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Internal Factors:
10. 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.
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Internal Factors:
11. Self-sabotaging Thoughts
These are thoughts that deter a person
from developing a healthy and wholesome
self-concept.
Knowing one’s strengths and
weaknesses will put a person’s feet on the
ground and make him realistic about his
capabilities and limitations
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Internal Factors:
12. Life Roles
We play multiple roles in our lives wherein
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.
28. ▸ 1. Parental Preferences
▸ there will be no friction between you and
your parents if your parents have some idea
of what course you should take.
▸ if what they think does not match with your
own choice, then you can ask your parents
for their reasons. 28
external Factors:
29. ▸ 2. Family Considerations
▸ You might have a sibling who
wants to take up the same
course you chose or a sibling
who wants to go to another
school, 29
external Factors:
30. 3. Financial Constraints
▸ This would always be the
major consideration among
families especially if your
siblings are already in college.
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external Factors:
31. 3. Financial Constraints
▸ Your parents’ financial standing is a
determinant of whether you will even go to
college or if the course of your choice might be
feasible for them to support you.
▸ If this is the case, try looking for some
scholarships to aid in pursuing your dreams.
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external Factors:
32. ▸ 4. Culture
▸ 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.
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external Factors:
33. ▸ 5. School Location
▸ If your family’s financial
capability is not a problem, then
there is the option to rent a
boarding room somewhere nearby
your school of choice.
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external Factors:
34. ▸ 6. Peer pressure
▸ Your friends may exert some pressure on
you to take up a course so that you can be
together even in college.
▸ But, at the end of the day, you decide
what is best for you.
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external Factors:
35. 7. Gender Bias
▸ How we view ourselves as
individuals may influence both the
opportunities and barriers we
perceive as we make career
decisions. 35
external Factors:
36. ▸ 8. Language Limitation
▸ Language can be learned, so
if you have this challenge
before you, do not be
discouraged 36
external Factors:
37. 9. Academic Performance
10. Job market preference (Immediate
Employment)
▸ Often, the first job may not be the one’s
first choice, but to gain experience and
immediate employment.
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external Factors:
38. ▸ 11. Social and Economic
Conditions
▸ All of our career choices take
place within the context of
society and the economy.
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external Factors:
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▸ This is a personality test, it will help
you understand why you act the way
that you do and how your personality
is structured. In the table below, mark
how muchyou agree with the
statement on the scale of 1-5, where:
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