DEVELOPMENT
PE RSO N S AN D C AR E ER S, A N D PATHWAYS
By M.E.
CAREER DVLPMT
LIFE
GOALS
This refers to an individual’s aspirations, missions, ambitions, and dreams
in various aspects of his life. Achieving life goals may start with goal
setting.
GUIDES to SET
1. List down the primary goal you want to achieve in your life.
2. Break it down into smaller goals.
3. Provide time frame for each smaller goal. Identify other things that are
necessary in attaining these goals.
4. Make a plan on how to achieve those goals.
5. Start carrying out the plan.
SET LIFETIME GOAL
1. Career – What particular
2. Financial – What’s your target earning?
3. Education – What course/program?
4. Family – Dream of marrying?
5. Physical – Do you want to achieve good health?
6. Pleasure – What are your dreams for pleasure or enjoy?
7. Public Service – Do you want to serve other people?
BRAINSTORMING is a useful tool in thinking about
general goals. The process includes trimming down the identified
general goals into smaller and more achievable goals that one can
focus on.
Another concept that could help a person in goal setting is
CAREER DEVELOPMENT. It refers to “the lifelong
process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions in
order to move toward a personally determined and evolving
preferred future.”
PERSONAL FACTORS
that influence
CAREER CHOICE
The following are some of the personal factors that must be considered in
choosing a career and setting life goals as they could be determinant of
success or failure of a person in his or her chosen career.
PERSONALITY refers to the combination of
traits, characteristics, or qualities that form a
person’s distinct character. The personality type of
an individual plays a role in choosing a career or life
goal as the kind of profession or vocation a person
wishes to have must be compatible or fitting to his
or her character. Self – assessment is helpful in
learning about one’s personality and in finding the
right career that matches it.
There are jobs that require precise physical and
mental capacities. If one wants to make sports
a profession, he or she must have a healthy body.
Professions like being a professor, lawyer, and
doctor requires having high IQ, exceptional common
sense and logical thinking abilities. It is, thus,
essential to find an occupation that matches one’s
physical feature and cognitive abilities.
A person should take into considerations his or her
skills, general intelligence, and special
abilities in choosing a career. While these may
not fully guarantee that one will succeed in a certain
course, they, nonetheless, would enable us to have
an idea on the probability of at least faring in a
particular field. One who has poor linguistic and
literary competencies, for instance, can hardly
become successful in journalism or scriptwriting.
An individual’s positive preference and passion
towards a certain kind of undertaking is a factor in
becoming successful in that task. Students normally
choose a course that they find interesting or
something that they enjoy doing or learning about.
However, interests may fluctuate or shift over
time and may not really be dependable criterion for
career choice. But, then again, interests do influence
career choice as they are potent driving force in
doing or performing a particular endeavor.
The experiences we had in our lives may
influence the way we choose our careers. The
positive feelings that one got in doing a specific task
in the past and the role models whom he or she met
in that field may determine his or her career choice.
For instance, if as a student, one enjoyed being a
student – tutor to other students and idolized a
particular professor, he or she might choose
teaching as a profession.
As individual’s principles or standards of behavior
are collectively called as his or her values. Values
may also refer to a person’s judgment of what is
important in life. One’s value system is a set of a
person’s personal ethics and values which serves as
his moral code. Also, it determines the things that
he or she deems important in life.
SELF –
ASSESSMENT
Self – assessment, especially in Social Psychology, is “the
process of looking at oneself in order to assess aspects
that are important to one’s identity. It is the one of the
motives that drive self – evaluation, along with self –
verification and self – enhancement.” In career
development, self – assessment can be done through
standardized career assessment tools.
My Dream Job
CAREER
PATHWAYS
Choosing a career is generally inevitable in one’s life, especially
during the late adolescence. This is a critical developmental
milestone which requires much needed assessment and
deliberation. An adolescent’s career choice is influenced by
personal as well as external factors which may help in his or her
career.
My Dream Job
CAREER
PLANNING
It is a “subset of career management which applies the
concepts of strategic planning and marketing to taking
charge of one’s professional future”. It is a deliberate
preparation of an individual for one’s career. It consists of
many elements such as self – assessment or self –
exploration in order to understand one’s abilities,
strengths, and weaknesses, and matching them with
available career opportunities.
FO R YO UR AT T E N TIO N
By M.E.
