Career Development Flashcards
Course of events that constitutes life sequence of occupation and other life roles
Career
The lifelong process of managing learning work, leisure, and transitions in order to move toward a personally determined and evolving preferred future
Career development
Student’s energy to invest in their future; awareness of the direction they want their careers to take
Career motivation
Aspects of career motivation
Career resilience, career insight, career identity
Extent to which students are able to cope with problems that affect their school work and future career plans
Career resilience
How much students know their interests, skills strengths, weaknesses
Career insight
Degree to which students define their personal values according to their school work and future career plans
Career identity
“Father of guidance”
Frank Parson’s Trait-and-Factor theory
Forerunner of modern theories of career development
Tripartite model
People have different abilities, interests, and values - qualified for different occupations or jobs; people change over time and experience growth.
Donald Super’s Life-span, Life-space theory
When a person is able/willing to engage in the developmental tasks that are appropriate to the age and career level
Career maturity or adaptability
Stage from self-concept, develop capacity, attitudes, interests, and needs
Growth (birth to 14)
“Try out” through classes; tentative choice and related skill development
Exploratory (15-24)
Entry skill building and stabilizations
Establishment (25-44)
Continual adjustment process
Maintenance (45-64)
Reduced output, prepared for retirement
Decline (65+)
People search for environments that let them exercise their skills and abilities.
Holland’s theory of vocational personalities and work environments
Six types of persons according to Holland
Realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional
Determined by an interaction between personality and environment
Behavior
Works with animals, tools, or machines; avoids social activities; practical, mechanical, realistic
Realistic
Study and solve maths/science problems; avoids leading, selling, or persuading people; precise, scientific, intellectual
Investigative
Creative activities: art, drama, crafts, dance, music, creative writings; avoids highly ordered/repetitive activities; expressive, original, independent
Artistic
Likes to help people: teaching, nursing; avoids machines, tools, or animals; helpful, friendly, trustworthy
Social
Likes to lead and persuade people; avoids activities that require careful observation and scientific, analytical thinking; ambitious, energetic, sociable
Enterprising
Works with numbers, records, machines; avoids ambiguous, unstructured activities; orderly, good at following a set plan
Conventional
Designed to facilitate the transition from basic education to future learning or employment
Career planning
