Career - It is a profession that a person may get into either because he has found a good match between life goals, skills, personality, and interests with a dream job or it may just be a means to earn a living.
Difference between Job and Career
JOB | CAREER |
|---|---|
Short term | Long term |
It is routinely done for financial security and stability. | Passion, interest, or a sense of fulfillment is often the main drive. |
It often does not require specialist experience, skills or training. | It often requires specialization, formal education, training and experience. |
It is something you have to do to survive. | You feel satisfied in doing it even after a long period of time. |
August Turak proposed that “personal development is not a tool for reaching a bigger goal, because becoming a complete human being is the biggest and most noble goal you can aspire for”
Four Categories of Career Development Theories 1. Trait Factor - Skills, values, interests, and personality traits are analyzed and matched with job factors or an occupational profile. 2. Personality Type-Work Environment Congruence Theory - Six Personality Categories: realistic, investigate, social, conventional, enterprising and artistic. People in search of their career path are often confused because they mix their dominant type with their other preference. 3. Social Learning and Career Decision Theory - A person may exercise control over his thoughts, beliefs, and actions and that self-efficacy is the predictor of behavior. Self-efficacy - one’s capabilities to plan, organize and execute a set of actions that will produce the desired results. 4. Developmental or the Life-Span or Life-Space Theory - Theory on the idea that humans are always in constant change and go through life learning and doing new things while changing roles in the process.
The challenge is… “To develop our own approach and methodology in finding out our career choices”
Internal Factors That May Affect Your Decision On Your Career Choice 1. Self-concept or self-identity - If your self-identity is not solid as it should be, then choosing a career or even a course to take up in college will be difficult. There is a need to know and understand what you want to do or not want to do. 2. Personal Preferences - Your career preference is opposite to what your parents want, this is what usually happens in many Filipino homes. 3. Motivation - The drive to fulfill one’s potential is the best motivation that any person can ever have in living a meaningful life. Other people went to college to take up a course that can provide them with employment abroad. “A person without any motivation will end up wasting a life of unfulfilled potentials.” 4. Self-Confidence “Yes I can!” “Kaya ko ‘to!” The self-confident person will keep his eyes on his goals and declare to the world that he can do it and will succeed in the pursuit of his dreams. 5. Personal Skills - The skill that you have may be hidden because some people around you do not accept it or you may be afraid to show it because you might be misjudged. “Have the courage to stand up and take the relevant course that will hone your skills and be the master of your destiny.” 6. Personality Characteristics Knowing your personality will definitely help you in choosing a career. Certain characteristics are compatible and matched with certain types of work. 7. Personal Health - The condition of your health is a major factor in the career choice you will make. 8. Emotional Conditions - It is difficult to make decisions when one is experiencing some strong emotions such as anger or sadness. Check yourself when you are deciding on what course to take. 9. Self-sabotaging thoughts These are thoughts that deter a person from developing a healthy and wholesome self-concept.
External Factors Influencing A Filipino Adolescent’s Career Choices 1. Parental preferences - Should conflict arise, ask your parents for their reasons regarding their preference, then share with them your own thoughts about your choice. 2. Family considerations - If you have a sibling, your parents might want you to go to the same school for practical or security reasons. 3. Financial constraints 4. Job market preference (Immediate employment). 5. School location. 6. Peer Pressure - Sometimes friends may put pressure on you when choosing a course so that you will be together in college. 7. Gender bias - Some careers or companies are still suffering from gender bias. 8. Language limitation - Find ways to overcome this obstacle by learning the language before enrolling. 9. Academic Performance
Career - It is a profession that a person may get into either because he has found a good match between life goals, skills, personality, and interests with a dream job or it may just be a means to earn a living.
Difference between Job and Career
JOB | CAREER |
|---|---|
Short term | Long term |
It is routinely done for financial security and stability. | Passion, interest, or a sense of fulfillment is often the main drive. |
It often does not require specialist experience, skills or training. | It often requires specialization, formal education, training and experience. |
It is something you have to do to survive. | You feel satisfied in doing it even after a long period of time. |
August Turak proposed that “personal development is not a tool for reaching a bigger goal, because becoming a complete human being is the biggest and most noble goal you can aspire for”
Four Categories of Career Development Theories 1. Trait Factor - Skills, values, interests, and personality traits are analyzed and matched with job factors or an occupational profile. 2. Personality Type-Work Environment Congruence Theory - Six Personality Categories: realistic, investigate, social, conventional, enterprising and artistic. People in search of their career path are often confused because they mix their dominant type with their other preference. 3. Social Learning and Career Decision Theory - A person may exercise control over his thoughts, beliefs, and actions and that self-efficacy is the predictor of behavior. Self-efficacy - one’s capabilities to plan, organize and execute a set of actions that will produce the desired results. 4. Developmental or the Life-Span or Life-Space Theory - Theory on the idea that humans are always in constant change and go through life learning and doing new things while changing roles in the process.
The challenge is… “To develop our own approach and methodology in finding out our career choices”
Internal Factors That May Affect Your Decision On Your Career Choice 1. Self-concept or self-identity - If your self-identity is not solid as it should be, then choosing a career or even a course to take up in college will be difficult. There is a need to know and understand what you want to do or not want to do. 2. Personal Preferences - Your career preference is opposite to what your parents want, this is what usually happens in many Filipino homes. 3. Motivation - The drive to fulfill one’s potential is the best motivation that any person can ever have in living a meaningful life. Other people went to college to take up a course that can provide them with employment abroad. “A person without any motivation will end up wasting a life of unfulfilled potentials.” 4. Self-Confidence “Yes I can!” “Kaya ko ‘to!” The self-confident person will keep his eyes on his goals and declare to the world that he can do it and will succeed in the pursuit of his dreams. 5. Personal Skills - The skill that you have may be hidden because some people around you do not accept it or you may be afraid to show it because you might be misjudged. “Have the courage to stand up and take the relevant course that will hone your skills and be the master of your destiny.” 6. Personality Characteristics Knowing your personality will definitely help you in choosing a career. Certain characteristics are compatible and matched with certain types of work. 7. Personal Health - The condition of your health is a major factor in the career choice you will make. 8. Emotional Conditions - It is difficult to make decisions when one is experiencing some strong emotions such as anger or sadness. Check yourself when you are deciding on what course to take. 9. Self-sabotaging thoughts These are thoughts that deter a person from developing a healthy and wholesome self-concept.
External Factors Influencing A Filipino Adolescent’s Career Choices 1. Parental preferences - Should conflict arise, ask your parents for their reasons regarding their preference, then share with them your own thoughts about your choice. 2. Family considerations - If you have a sibling, your parents might want you to go to the same school for practical or security reasons. 3. Financial constraints 4. Job market preference (Immediate employment). 5. School location. 6. Peer Pressure - Sometimes friends may put pressure on you when choosing a course so that you will be together in college. 7. Gender bias - Some careers or companies are still suffering from gender bias. 8. Language limitation - Find ways to overcome this obstacle by learning the language before enrolling. 9. Academic Performance
