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Personal Development

FACTORS
IN
IDENTIFYI
NG
Career
concepts
Acareer is defined as the combination and sequence
of roles played by a person during the course of a
lifetime (Super, 1980). Your career determines the
kind of lifestyle that you will be leading, the quality of
relationships that you have with people around you
like your family and friends, the kind of balance you
will be able to keep with your life and your
responsibilities.

There are two other concepts that we often associate

with the of career. One is a job and another is


concept
occupation.
J
A job is a position an individual

O
holds doings specific duties. For
example,
if you would look closely at the
job of a lawyer, you can say
that a lawyer’s job is working as

B
an associate in Mahinay Law
Firm.
OCCUP
ATION
Anoccupation is defined as
thesimilar workfor which people
have similar responsibilities and
for which they develop a
common set of skills and
knowledge. For example, people
who are in the mental health
occupation would include
psychologists, clinical
psychologists, counselors, and
psychiatrists.
FACTORS
A lot of things can influence one’s career choice. A
popular career development model, the Trait and
&
INFULENCE
Factor model, believes that skills and abilities need
to fit the demands of a particular career field. This
being said, it is then the important that you take

S
stock of the skills, knowledge and abilities that you
currently possess and those that you still need to
develop as these greatly impacts that kind of
career that could be a good match for you.
Another factor that could influence your success in a
particular career field would be your personality and
interests. John Holland, a popular career counselor
personality traits and must also fit our interests.
Our life roles are yet strong
factors that influences our career
choices. Your role as a child, a
sister, a student, and eventually if
you choose it, that of a parent
would have an impact in the
decisions that you would have to
make as an adult.
One’s race and ethnicity could also impact our
choices. The culture in which we belong to
shape our values and expectations. In the
Philippines, our collectivist orientation makes
our family a strong influence in our career
decisions. More often than not, the choice of
course to take in college, the location of our job,
how strong willed we will be in achieving great
heights in our career, would most likely be
influenced by our family roles, duties and
obligations.
Our social identity, specifically our gender, also
possess challenges and opportunities for us when
choosing a career. Although nowadays, the gender
divide in terms of careers have slowly narrowed, it is a
known fact that men and women experiences career-
related stereotypes.

One of the strongest considerations in career decision


making has a lot to do with social and economic
conditions. Our choice of career is contingent to our
capabilities to sustain the monetary demands of
pursuing formal education to train for it. Also, our
financial obligations and roles likewise would
determine the kind of occupation we would be
pursuing. Furthermore, certain life events can also
influence our career choices.
WHAT
When we think about career choice, several things
immediately come to mind - job description, training and
education required, career outlook, and salary - but there
are a number of other factors that may influence your

INFLUENCES
decisions. Let’s explore some of these factors as addressed
by multiple career development theories.

YOUR
Skills and Abilities - Considering your skills and
abilities and how they may fit a particular
occupation comes out one of the earliest career
development fields, Trait-Factor theories, and is still

CAREER used today. These theories recommend crating


occupational profiles for specific jobs as well as
identifying individual dSiKffILeLrSences, matching
individuals to occupations

CHOICE? based on these differences. You can identify activities


you
enjoy and those in which you have a level of
competency
though a formal assessment.
Interest and Personality Type - Holland’s Career Typology is a widely used to connect
personality types and career fields. This theory establishes a classification system that
matches personality characteristics and personal preferences to job characteristics. The
Holland Codes are six personality/career types that help describe a wide range of
occupations.
Life Roles - Being a worker is just one of your life roles, in addition to others such as student,
parent, and child. Super’s Lifespan theory directly addresses the fact that we each play multiple
roles in our lives and that these roles change over the course of our lives. How we think about
ourselves in these roles, their requirements of them, and the external forces that affect them,
may influence how we look at careers in general and how we make choices for ourselves.

Previous Experiences - Krumboltz’s Social Learning and Planned Happenstance theories address

factors
our related towith others and in previous work situations. Having positive experiences and role
experiences
models working

in specific careers may influence the set of careers we consider as options for ourselves. One

aspect of Social
Cognitive
task if we Career
have Theory addresses the fact that we are likely to consider continuing a particular

had a positive experience doing it.


Culture - Racial and ethnic background, as well as the
culture of an individual’s regional area, local
community , and extended family, may impact career
decisions. Our culture often shapes our values and
expectations as they relate to many parts of our lives,
including hobs and careers. Multicultural career
counseling has emerged as a specialized field to take
these influences into consideration when counseling
clients
Genderand students.
- both men and women have experienced
career-related stereotypes. Gender is a factor included
in multiple career development theories and
approaches including, Social Learning and
multicultural career counseling. How we view as
individuals may influence both the opportunities and
barriers we perceive as we make career decisions.
Social and Economic Conditions - All of our career choices take place within the context of
society and the economy. Several career theories, such as Social Cognitive Career Theory
and Social Learning, address this context in addition to other factors. Events that take place
in our lives may affect the choices available to us and even dictate our choices to a certain
degree. Changes in the economy and resulting job market may also affect how our careers
develop.

Childhood Fantasies - What do you want to be when


you grow- up? You may remember this question from
your childhood, and it may have helped shape how
you thought about careers then, as well as later in
life. Career counseling theories are expanding as
programs related to career choice are developed for
an ages, including the very young. Ginzberg proposed
a theory that describes three life stages related to
career development. The first stage, fantasy, where
early ideas about careers are formed, takes place up
to age 11.
WORK WITH
CAREER YOUR
COUNSELOR!
Itisimportant to understand that career choiceis not
made basedon any one factor.Our choices are subject
to many influences - individual, cultural, social, and
environmental. The combination and interaction of
various influences on your decision-making are unique
to you and your situation. There may also be multiple
options, several “good; fits” for you, instead of a single,
right choice. Keep in mind that as you change, learning
and experiencing new things, and external factors
change, such as the economy, you will continue to
revise and fine-tune your career choices.
There is a lot to consider, but you don’t
have to figure it all out on your own.
Work with a career services counselor at
your institution’s career center. These
professionals will be able to assist you
with assessments and additional
resources, and discuss how different
theories may be applied to your career
development process.
“WHAT DO YOU WANT TO
BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?”
THAN
K
YOU!

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