Personal Development and Career Management

Vocabulary flashcards covering core concepts, factors, and theories of personal development and career management based on the lecture notes.

Personal Development

Activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, and build human capital.

Career Management

A life-long process of investing resources to accomplish future career goals and adapting to life's changing demands.

Career

A profession for which one is being trained and undertaken as a permanent calling.

Career Development

The process of choosing a career, improving skills, and advancing along a career path through self-knowledge, exploration, and decision-making.

Personal Characteristics

Personality type, interests, aptitudes, and work-related values that influence job satisfaction and suitable work environments.

Financial Obligations

Commitments such as mortgages, rent, student loans, or children's college tuition that can inhibit career choices by requiring a steady paycheck.

Trait Factors

A category of career development theory where skills, values, interests, and personality characteristics are analyzed and matched with job factors or an occupational profile.

Psychological or Personality Categories

Career development categories consisting of realistic, investigative, social, conventional, enterprising, and artistic types present in individuals.

Theory of Self-Efficacy

A decision-based theory stating that belief in one's capacity to plan, organize, and execute actions is tied to motivation in career development.

Developmental or Life Span Theory

A theory holding that humans are in constant flux and navigate life doing new things while changing roles.

Trait and Factor (Flanigan,2011)

A career development theory centered on matching an individual's unique characteristics with specific job requirements.

Trait

The unique characteristics of a person within the Trait and Factor theory.

Factor

The known requirements for a job within the Trait and Factor theory.

Life Goals

Ends towards which one's efforts are directed, providing direction and meaning to daily life.

Personality

Individually unique, consistent behavioral patterns and psychological attributes that endure over time and across situations.

Lisa McQuerrey

The individual who shared key ideas and step-by-step guidance on preparing a career path.