CAREER DEVELOPMENT Flashcards
Defined as the COMBINATION and SEQUENCE of roles played by a person during the course of a lifetime (Super, 1980)
Career
Give examples of lifelong journeys
education, interests, jobs, occupations
Why do we have to talk about career?
So it can determine a lot of things in your life
Your career can determine a lot of things in your life, like:
the kind of lifestyle, the quality of relationships, and the kind of balance you will be able to keep with your life and your responsibilities
Involves developing the skills and knowledge that enable you to plan and make informed decisions about your education, training and career choices.
Career Development
TRUE OR FALSE: Career Development is an ongoing process of managing your life, learning and work
TRUE
In Making Informed Decisions, there are?
A. Psychological Tests
B. Interview with Adults
C. Career Seminars
D. Trends in the Workplace
Give 5 examples of Internal Factors that influence Career Choices
Personality, Choices, Personal Interests, Biological and genetic factors, gender
Give 5 examples of External Factors that influence Career Choices
Environment (Physical Environment and Culture), Social & Economic Conditions/Opportunities, Media/Available References, Parents/Guardians/Family, Career Counseling
TRUE OR FALSE: In developing your career, you need to start having a life goal. It sets the direction of where you want to go
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: Having life goals could NOT empower a person to direct his/her motivation and energy towards finding self-actualization through his/her chosen career
FALSE
TRUE OR FALSE: Although studies on career development do not impose that a person should stick to just one initial choice/decision all throughout his/her lifetime, studies have shown that having a good plan of what a person would want to do in one’s life and associating one’s career choice and preparations to this have been found to lead to a self-fulfilling life in adulthood
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: A plan may be as flexible as it can be but what’s important is that it has NO direction.
FALSE
TRUE OR FALSE: Skills and abilities (individual differences) need to fit the demands of a particular career field (occupational profiles)
TRUE
According to this model, it is important to take stock of the skills, knowledge and abilities that you currently possess and those that you still need to develop as these greatly impact what kind of career could be a good match for you
Skills and Abilities
In Interest and Personality Type, _______________________________ is widely used to connect personality types and career fields
John Holland’s Career Typology
This theory establishes a classification system that matches personality characteristics & personal preferences to job characteristics
Interests and Personality Type
How many personality/career types that The Holland Codes help tos describe a wide range of occupations (RIASEC)?
six
In Life Roles, _____________________________ 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
Donald Super’s Lifespan theory
Stage 1: Growth; Age Range: ______
Stage 2: ________; Age Range: 15-24
Stage 3: _________; Age Range: ______
Stage 4: Maintenance; Age Range: ______
Stage 5: __________; Age Range: 65+
0-14,
Exploration,
Establishment, 25-44,
45-64,
Decline
In what stage: “Trying out” through classes, work experience, hobbies, Tentative choice and skill development
Stage 2: Exploration
In what stage: Continual adjustment process to improve position
Stage 4: Maintenance
In what stage: Reduced output, prepare for retirement
Stage 5: Decline
In what stage: Development of self-concept, attitudes, needs, and general world of work
Stage 1: Growth
In what stage: Entry-level skill building and stabilization through work experience
Stage 3: Establishment
Test or try various types of work through your classes and projects
Exploration Stage (15-24)
On-the-job training and performance tasks provide an opportunity to:
a. Develop a mature perspective of _____
b. Acquire the ability to be _________ and develop ______________, the ability to _____________, and an ability to identify with ____________________ of work behavior
c. Make _________________ as to what you really want to become after you graduate from high school
a. TIME
b. PATIENT, SELF-CONTROL, NEGOTIATE, and APPROPRIATE MODELS
c. TENTATIVE CHOICES
___________________________________________________________________ theories address factors related to our experiences with others and in previous work situations
John Krumboltz’s Social Learning & Planned Happenstance theories
TRUE OR FALSE: Having positive experiences and role models working in specific careers may influence the set of careers we consider as options for ourselves.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: We are likely to consider continuing a particular task if we have had a positive experience doing it. In this way, we focus on areas in which we have had proven success and achieved positive self-esteem
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: Racial and ethnic background, as well as the culture of an individual’s regional area, local community, and extended family, may impact career decisions.
TRUE
More often than not, the choice, of course, to take in college, the location of our job, and how strong-willed we will be in achieving great heights in our career, would most likely be influenced by our _____________, _______________, and ___________________.
family roles, duties and obligations.
TRUE OR FALSE: Both men and women have experienced career-related stereotypes
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: How we view ourselves as individuals may influence both the opportunities and barriers we perceive as we make career decisions
TRUE
Roles of men and women in the workforce, and in higher education, _________.
evolve
TRUE OR FALSE: All of our career choices take place within the context of society and the economy
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: Events that take place in our lives may NOT affect the choices available to us and even dictate our choices to a certain degree
FALSE
______________ proposed a theory that describes three life stages related to career development. The first stage, ________, where early ideas about careers are formed, takes place up to age 11
Eli Ginzberg, fantasy
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” This question may have helped shape how you thought about careers then, as well as later in life
Childhood Fantasies
TRUE OR FALSE: A research by 90,000 Hours (a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping graduates in their career decisions) found that the advice “follow your passion” is not good advice
FALSE (80,000)
TRUE OR FALSE: Following your passions can cause you to be to BROAD-MINDED in your search for work because you can only bepassionate about activities you’ve already tried
FALSE (NARROW-MINDED)
What are the four (4) factors which make us satisfied with our work
- Engaging and Meaningful work - Variery, Autonomy, Sense of Completion, Feedback
- Getting on with colleagues – Help; Meaningful relationships
- Personal Fit - You are good with what you do
- Hygiene Factors - Reasonable work hours, Job security, Commute, Pay
TRUE OR FALSE: A person’s development is affected by everything in their surrounding environment. Whatever happens on one level can affect the rest of the system.
TRUE OR FALSE: There is NO ripple effect in the various areas of the persons’ development. Positive or negative changes affect not only the person but also his or her family and community
TRUE
FALSE (THERE IS)
The individual’s immediate environments (family, school, peer group, neighborhood, and childcare environments); most influential level;
Microsystem
Direct connections between immediate environments (i.e., a child’s home and school)
Mesosystem
Environments that only indirectly affect the individual (such as parent’s workplace)
Exosystem
Country’s form of government, system of laws, and economic and educational system
Macrosystem
Patterning of environmental events and transitions over the course of life
Chronosystem
MYTH OR FACT: Identity Formation is necessary for career development.
FACT
Older adolescents (14 to 17) showed more adultlike patterns using the ________ lobe
frontal
What is the primary social influence in the stage Identity vs Identity Confusion?
peers
a period of exploring alternatives
crisis
a personal investment in identity
commitment
What identity status is stated when crisis is present?
Identity Moratorium and Identity Achievement
What identity status is stated when commitment is present?
Identity Foreclosure and Identity Achievement
Personal development _______________ career development.
precedes
TRUE OR FALSE: Career development planning should be provided across genders, educational backgrounds and vocational competence, in order to enhance job satisfaction and service quality (Wang, et al, 2018).
TRUE OR FALSE: Students who experienced career orientation and guided career planning are more satisfied and competent in their career decisions (Weidner, 2019).
TRUE OR FALSE: Career orientation and employment commitment are positively related to career satisfaction, and these relationships are fully mediated by work engagement and self-efficacy (Ngo & Hui, 2017).
TRUE
TRUE
TRUE
What should we use in considering career decisions?
psychological tests, interview with adults, career seminars
MYTH OR FACT: Life goals are not related to career goals
MYTH (they are related)
What do you want to have/ to be/ to attain in life?
Life goal
What is the means that you will employ to employ the life goal.
Career goal
MYTH OR FACT: Personality is the only and best basis for career planning
MYTH (skills and abilities)
MYTH OR FACT: MY FAMILY’S CAREER CHOICES CAN AFFECT MY CAREER CHOICES.
FACT (intrinsically (I will be a doctor to bring my family out of poverty) or extrinsically (I wanted to be a doctor because my doctor-mom always brings me to the hospital)
MYTH OR FACT: I CAN CHANGE MY CAREER DECISION ALONG THE WAY
FACT (people have different timelines)
MYTH OR FACT: IF OTHERS CAN DO IT IN A CERTAIN FIELD, I CAN ALSO DO IT.
MYTH (one’s fate does not ensure your faith)
MYTH OR FACT: EVERYONE HAS A “ONE TRUE CALLING.”
MYTH (However, the saying, “follow your passion” encourages the idea that there is one perfect path for you – your one true calling. It is misleading because you can become passionate about many different areas.
MYTH OR FACT: CAREER DECISIONS ARE DIFFICULT
FACT (Career decisions involve a lot of uncertainty)
Culture often shapes our ___________ and ____________ as they relate to many parts of our lives, including jobs and careers.
values and expectations
TRUE OR FALSE: In the Philippines, our collectivist orientation makes our family a strong influence in our career decisions.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: We are bad at predicting which jobs we’ll be most happy and most good at just by thinking about it
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: Career and Job are the same.
FALSE
What are the four (4) Marcia’s Identity Crisis?
Identity moratorium, Identity achievement, Identity diffusion, Identity foreclosure
What does RIASEC means?
Realistic, Investigate, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional
What career stage is described by Super where adolescents are at?
Exploration
In Holland’s RIASEC categorization of vocational interests, what do “I” and “A” stand for?
Investigative and Artistic
TRUE OR FALSE: People can decide on a career path to take despite of not knowing their values and beliefs.
False
TRUE OR FALSE: According to Donald Super, a person’s development may be affected by his surrounding environment.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE: A high salary is the only and best consideration to be satisfied in a career.
FALSE
