This document discusses concepts related to career planning. It defines key terms like career, job, and occupation. A career encompasses a person's combination of roles over their lifetime, while a job refers to a specific position and an occupation is a type of work requiring certain skills. The document outlines several factors that influence career choices, such as personal skills and interests, life roles and responsibilities, gender and culture, economic conditions, and childhood aspirations. Understanding how these factors intersect can help in career planning and decision making.

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Personal Development
Prepared: Eric J. Manuevo
CAREER CONCEPTS

5. Learning Objectives:
Explain that understanding of the concepts of career
and life goals can help in planning your career,
identify the personal factors influencing career choices,
take a self-assessment tool to know your personality traits
and other personal factors in relation to your goals

6. CAREER CONCEPTS
A career is defined as the combination and
sequence of roles played by a person during
the course of a lifetime (Super, 1980). Your
career basically dictates a lot of things in your
life – it can determine the kind of lifestyle that
you will be leading, the quality of relationships
that you have with people around you like your
family and friends, the kind of balance you will
be able to keep with your life and your
responsibilities.

7. CAREER CONCEPTS
There are two other concepts that we
often associate with the concept of career.
Job
Occupation

8. JOB
A job is a position an individual
holds doing specific duties.
For example, if you would look
closely at the job of a lawyer, you
can say that a lawyer’s job is
working as an associate in X Law
Firm.

9. An 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.
For example, people who are in the mental
health occupation would include
psychologists, clinical psychologists,
counselors, and psychiatrists
OCCUPATION

10. The terms "career," "job," and "occupation" are frequently used
interchangeably. A job is what you come to work for; a career is what you do
for a living and includes your education, training, professional memberships,
volunteering, and your entire history of paid work. An occupation is a type of
work that includes tasks, education and training, typical wages, work settings,
and other factors.
For example, you may choose to get trained for the occupation “electrician”.
Then, apply for a job as a residential electrician at a local residential
construction company. Your career may eventually involve that initial
experience in addition to having further commercial and industrial experience
after a number of years.
In general, we refer to "job" as a specific arrangement with an employer, while
"career" and "occupation" refer to a particular line of work.
Job vs. OCCUPATION

11. A lot of things can influence one’s career choice.
A popular career development model, the Trait and
Factor model, believes that skills and abilities
need to fit the demands of a particular career field.
This being said, it is then important that you take
stock of the skills, knowledge and abilities that you
currently possess and those that you still need to
develop as these greatly impacts that kind of career
that could be a good match for you.

12. Another factor that could influence your
success in a particular career field would
be your personality and interests. John
Holland, a popular career counselor
proposed a theory that strongly believe
that certain careers require certain
personality traits and must also fit our
interests.

13. Our life roles are yet strong factors that influences our
career choices. Your role as a child, a sister, a student, and
eventually if you choose it, that of a parent would have an
impact in the decisions that you would have to make as an
adult. Donald Super, another career development theorist
believes that since we play an array of roles in our lives,
these roles are likely to change over time thus
requirements, needs and other external forces would come
into play when we are trying to figure out or maintain a
career.

14. One’s race and ethnicity could also impact our
choices. The culture in which we belong to shape
our values and expectations. In the Philippines, our
collectivist orientation makes our family a strong
influence in our career decisions. More often than
not, the choice of course to take in college, the
location of our job, how strong-willed we will be in
achieving great heights in our career, would most
likely be influenced by our family roles, duties and
obligations.

15. Our social identity, specifically our gender,
also possess challenges and opportunities
for us when choosing a career. Although
nowadays, the gender divide in terms of
careers have slowly narrowed, it is a known
fact that men and women experiences
career-related stereotypes.

16. One of the strongest considerations in career decision making has a
lot to do with social and economic conditions. Our choice of career is
contingent to our capabilities to sustain the monetary demands of
pursuing formal education to train for it. Also, our financial
obligations and roles likewise would determine the kind of
occupation we would be pursuing in order to fulfill these duties.
Furthermore, certain life events can also influence our career
choices. The unpredictability of these events may cause us to make
certain concessions in order to meet the demands brought about by
these changes. Likewise, the volatile economic landscape and how
it impacts that supply and demand for people and jobs may also
impact how our careers would progress.

17. Lastly, we are so familiar with the
question “What do you want to be
when you grow up?”. It is highly
probable that these childhood
fantasies may have influenced how
you view yourself and your career.