CAREER DEVELOPMENT(EXTRA(?) NOTES)

Social Learning Career Theory

• Environmental Conditions

  • e.g. job opportunities

  • e.g. people in rural areas don’t have access to education that well, so they might be behind in education then people in the rural areas

• Learning Experiences

  • Instrumental Learning

    • e.g. realizing that one kind of job isn’t for you, so you resign and find another one

    • e.g. some people can’t “makisama” with other people in work which is something that they need to fix and observe within themselves

  • Associative Learning

    • observing consequences of OTHER’S actions

  • Task Approach Skills

    • ! people skills is very important to know how to deal with people, it’s no use if you have a lot of skill, but can’t mingle with people

Planned Happenstance Theory

• the career of the individual is not planned or predicted

• composed that a lot of planned and unplanned learning experiences

• there can be detours in terms of career plans, things can’t really go the way you wanted to

• someone doesn’t have plans to become a certain profession, but an event occurred that made them have the profession they had now

  • e.g. someone what doesn’t want to become a k-pop idol got scouted in the street, they agreed, then they become successful

Planned Happenstance

• Focuses your attitudes and actions during the process

  • e.g. how would you accpet and let it sink in that you’re not gonna become what you wanted to be?

  • Curiosity- explore learning opportunities

  • Perseverance- exerting effort despite setbacks

  • Flexibility- changing attitudes and circumstances

  • Optimism- viewing new opportunities as obtainable

  • Risk-Taking- taking action in the face of uncertain circumstances