Homeroom guidance

1. Multiple
Career
Development
Pathways
10th Grade
Helping students choose
High School track and
explore career pathways
and opportunities

2. Career
Development

3. What is career?
* It pertains to the occupation or profession that
usually involves special training or formal education
and considered to be a person’s lifework.
What is career development?
* Career development is an ongoing process of gaining
knowledge and improving skills that will help an
individual to establish a career plan.

4. Why career development?
Today’s generation students…
 Seldom plan for the future
 Follow the crowd
 Choose by the influence of others
 Accept the parent’s decision
 Get tempted by current trends
 Jump into any career
 Lack motivation
 Fail to “discover their lives”

5. Who are responsible for these?
 Students
 Parents
 Teachers
 School

6. What do you want for the rest of
your life?

7. Why select a
career?

8. The Career Decision Making Process

9. What are the
common factors
that influence
the career choice
of the learners?

10. 1. Parent’s desire/Parental pressure
Choosing a career just to live up to the parents’
expectation is the most common decision taking by
students at an early stage, which they tend to regret
later.

11. 2. Peer pressure
This is the easiest way of getting away from taking
self decision. Most of the students want to follow the
crowd to get to their destination. ‘Follow your friends’
is the most trending exercise visible during the
selection of a university/college. Majority choice is
considered the best choice.

12. 3. Potential
Potential of a student can be legitimate criterion for
choosing a career.

13. 4. Personality Driven
Most of the people choose their interest field on the basis of their
personality and character. It can be the other way around also, when a
career chooses them based on their personality. Here personality
includes not only the outward presentation of a student but the
perception he/she holds about society. A good communicator, who has
good command on his/her language skills, is more inclined towards a
mass communication stream. Similarly, a good leader who has the
capacity to influence masses chooses a management field. Personality
traits always help in deciding a good career, for it is easy to hone the
skills we already acquire

14. 5. Economic status consideration
This is the basic and the most essential criterion for
most of the students who set out to make their career.
One, who can afford it, can only receive the ace
quality training, knowledge and plum opportunities.
Most of the students neglect their interest and choose
a career that fits their pocket well.

15. 6. In demand jobs/careers
We wish to choose a profession that can provide for
our bread and butter.

16. Contents of the Toolkit:
1. INTRODUCTION Starting a Career Planning Journey
2. ACTIVITY 01 Enhancing Self-Awareness (Tools 1 – 4)
3. ACTIVITY 02 Exploring Career Pathways (Tool 5)
4. ACTIVITY 03 Goal-Setting and Grounding (Tools 6 –
9)
5. ACTIVITY 04 Connecting the Dots Between
Education
(Tools 10 – 13)
6. CULMINATION Tracking Your Students’ Progress

17. Starting a Career
Planning Journey
Introduction

18. “The life I want to
live as an adult”
Let’s start envisioning your
future.
Tool
1

19. What kind of
life do you
want to live?

20. Sharing of Inspiring Sories

22. REFLECTION GUIDE
1. What is career planning and why is it important to me
as a student?
2. Why is career planning not a one-time decision but a
series of decisions I make?
3. What should I consider in planning for my future
career?
4. What are the bases of a career planning journey?

23. “Self-assessment
of interests and
talents”
Let’s start envisioning your
future.
Tool
2

26. Have a
wonderful
day!