Personal Development - Career Development

Career

combination and sequence of roles played by a person during the course of a lifetime, lifelong journey that includes education, interests, jobs.

Job

specific position an individual holds doing specific duties

Occupation

collection of job titles that share job duties, skills and training

Urie Bronfenbrenner

American Developmental Psychologist

Human Ecological Theory

person's development is affected by everything in their surrounding environment

Microsystem

individuals immediate environments

Mesosystem

direct connections between immediate environments, influence upon one another

Exosystem

environments indirectly affect the individual

Macrosystem

cultural context. positive or a negative effect on a person's developmental

Chronosystem

patterning of environmental events over the course of life

Personal Factors

personality, values, personal interests, biological and genetic factors, gender

External factors

environmental, social and economic conditions, media references, family, peers

Skills and abilities

(Individual differences) need to fit the
demands of a particular career field
(occupational profiles)

John Holland’s Career Typology

is widely used to connect personality types and career
fields, This theory establishes a classification
system that matches personality,

holland codes

e six personality/career
types that help describe a wide range of
occupations (RIASEC)

Donald Super’s lifespan theory

directly addresses that we each play multiple roles in
our lives and that these roles change over
the course of our lives

Life Roles

How we think about ourselves in these roles,
their requirements, and the external forces
that affect them, may influence how we look
at careers in general and how we make
choices for ourselves.

Stage 1: Growth

0-14, Development of self-concept, attitudes, needs, and general world of work

Stage 2: Exploration

15-24, trying out through classes, work experience, hobbies, tentative choice and skill development

Stage 3: Establishment

25 - 44, entry - level skill building and stabilization through work experience

Stage 4: Maintenance

45 - 64, continual adjustment process to improve position

Stage 5: Decline

65+, reduced output, prepare for retirement

Previous experiences

We focus on areas in which we have had
proven success and achieved positive
self-esteem(continuing particular tasks that
we have had a positive experience doing it)

John Krumboltz’s Social Learning & Planned
Happenstance theories

address factors related to our experiences with others and in
previous work situations

Culture

racial and ethnic background, and culture of an individual's regional area, local community, and extended family

Social and economic Conditions

Our career choices take place within the
context of society and the economy, Nursing boom
- Globalization, ASEAN integration

Childhood fantasies

This question may have helped shape how
you thought about careers then, as well as
later in life

Engaging, meaningful work

Should have the sense of autonomy
- The extent to which you have variety,
autonomy, a sense of completion, feedback,
and work that makes you feel that you are
able to make a difference

Getting on with your colleagues

The extent to which you get help from, like,
and form meaningful relationships with your
colleagues

Personal fit

You become satisfied when you are good at
your job

Hygiene factors

having reasonable work hours, job security,
a short commute from and to your workplace,
and sufficient pay