Explore career for the future

2.  The labour market trend is a dynamic and fast-pacing factor in your career
choices. As a K to 12 student who is gearing up for Senior High School and will
soon take on the different Curriculum Exits, it is important that you explore
your career pathway to which your decision may lead.
 Remember also to realize the personal meaning of your choices. Individuals
find their own paths to career choice based on personal meaning that life
events have for them. To enable a deepened and intensive career guidance, it
would be essential to allow realization on the reason and significance of your
career choices in your own life.

3.  Before you embark on any journey, you must first identify your purpose leading to your
destination. This activity will help you realize the meaning of your career choices.
1. Copy and complete the activity on a sheet of paper.
2. 2. List down at least three career options or desired professions that you currently
have in mind. Then, reflect and identify the significant reasons why you intend to
pursue that career. Refer to an example provided.
My Career Options: My purpose of choosing this career
Professional Nurse In this time of pandemic and even beyond,
I will be able to help sick people who are in
their lowest condition of life
Processing Questions:
1. Did you find it difficult/easy to decide on your career options? Briefly explain your
answer.
2. What is the importance of realizing the reason and significance of your career
choices?

4.  A career cluster is a group of jobs that require similar skills or share
common characteristics. Let this activity help you in confirming your
career choices and deciding what track and strand will you take in Senior
High School.
1. Choose a career cluster that interest you most by identifying and
counting the statements that apply to you.
2. 2. Then record the number of statements that apply to you in each
cluster by copying and completing the table on a sheet of paper.

7. Cluster Number of statements that applies to me:
A: ARTS AND DESIGN
B: SPORTS
C: TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL AND
LIVELIHOOD
D: ACCOUNTANCY, BUSINESS AND
MANAGEMENT
E: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY,
ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS
F: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Processing Questions:
1. What are the top three clusters with the greatest number of statements that apply to you?
2. What did you discover more about your career interests while completing the activity?

8.  1. Referring to the result of your previous activity in Career Interest Clusters and using
the Career Wheel as your guide, map out your career pathway.
 2. Copy and answer the activity on a sheet of paper.

9. Processing Questions:
1. What particular career cluster/options will you most likely to
pursue? Briefly explain your answer.
2. What is the importance of knowing and planning your career
path?

10. Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper:
1. What is the significance of my career choice in my life?
2. What are the characteristics of this career that are
meaningful to me?
3. What are the most important characteristics of this
career that define me as a person and a worker in the
future?

11. Time Allotment: 10 minutes Taking down note of every learnings
you have is a good practice. In a sheet of paper, write your
reflections of the activities conducted.
After going through all the activities, I realized that
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