Career development Flashcards

1
Q

Defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a
person during the course of a lifetime

A

Career

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2
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Lifelong journey that includes your education, interests, jobs,
occupations, recreational activities and volunteer work.

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Career

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3
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Ongoing process of managing your life, learning and work

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Career Development

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4
Q

Involves developing the skills and knowledge that enable you to
plan and make informed decisions about your education,
training and career choices

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Career Development

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5
Q

Identity formation

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You need to find yourself and know yourself when picking a career.

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6
Q

Four statuses of Identity

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Diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, achievement

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7
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Identity Diffusion

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Absence of crisis and commitment

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8
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Identity foreclosure

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Absence of crisis and presence of commitment

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9
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Identity moratorium

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Presence of crisis and absence of commitment

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10
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Identity achievement

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Presence off crisis and commitment

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11
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Low commitment, high exploration

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Identity moratorium

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12
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Low commitment, low exploration

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Identity diffusion

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13
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High commitment, high exploration

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Identity achievement

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14
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High commitment, low exploration

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Identity foreclosure

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15
Q

Why do we have to talk about
career?

A

Your career can determine a lot of things in your life

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16
Q

What precedes career development?

A

personal development

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17
Q

What should we use in
considering career decisions?

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  • psychological tests
  • interview with adults
  • career seminars
  • trends in the workplace
  • misconceptions about careers
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18
Q

In developing your career, you need to start having a _____. It
sets the direction of where you want to go.

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life goal

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19
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What do you want to have/ to be/ to attain in life?

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life goal

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20
Q

What is the means that you will employ to employ the life goal.

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career goal

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21
Q

Factors the Influence Career Choices

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Internal and External Factors

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22
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Internal Factors that influence career choices

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  • personality
  • values
  • personal interests
  • biological and genetic factors
  • gender
  • learning experiences
  • outcome expectations
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23
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External Factors that influence career choices

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  • environment
  • social & economic
  • conditions/opportunities
    media/available references
  • parents/guardians/family
  • career counseling
  • peers
  • other emerging factors or trends that affect career choices (religion, gender roles)
24
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Skills and Abilities

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Skills and abilities (individual differences) need to fit the demands of a particular career field (occupational profiles)

25
Q

Interests and Personality Type

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John Holland’s Career Typology is widely used to connect personality types and career fields.

26
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Holland Codes (RIASEC)

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  • Realistic
  • Investigative
  • Artistic
  • Social
  • Enterprising
  • Conventional
27
Q

Donald 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.

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Life Roles

28
Q

Donald Super’s Five Life and Career Development Stages

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  1. Growth
  2. Exploration
  3. Establishment
  4. Maintenance
  5. Decline
29
Q

Growth

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Development of self-
concept, attitudes, needs,
and general world of work

30
Q

Ages 0-14

A

Growth

31
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Exploration

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“Trying out” through
classes, work experience,
hobbies

32
Q

Ages 15-24

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Exploration

33
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Establishment

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Entry-level skill building and
stabilization through work
experience

34
Q

Ages 25-44

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Establishment

35
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Maintenance

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Continual adjustment
process to improve position

36
Q

Ages 45-64

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Maintenance

37
Q

Decline

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Reduced output, prepare for
retirement

38
Q

Ages 65+

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Decline

39
Q

John Krumboltz’s Social Learning & Planned Happenstance
theories address factors related to our experiences with others
and in previous work situations

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Previous Experiences

40
Q

Culture

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Racial and ethnic background, as well as the culture of an
individual’s regional area, local community, and extended family,
may impact career decisions

41
Q

Both men and women have experienced career-related
stereotypes.

A

Gender

42
Q

Social and Economic Conditions

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All of our career choices take place within the context of society
and the economy

43
Q

“What do you want to be when you grow-up?”

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Childhood Fantasies

44
Q

Following your passions can cause you to be to narrow-minded in your search for work because you can only be passionate about activities you’ve already tried. T or F

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True

45
Q

Following your passion is good advise. T or F

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False

46
Q

Factors which make us satisfied with our work

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  • Engaging in meaningful work
  • Getting on with colleagues
  • Personal Fit
  • Hygiene Factors
47
Q

Engaging in meaningful work

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the extent to which you have variety, autonomy, a sense of completion, feedback, and work you feel makes a difference

48
Q

Getting on with your colleagues

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the extent to which you get help
from, like and form meaningful relationships with your colleagues

49
Q

Personal Fit

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the extent to which you’re good at your job

50
Q

Hygiene Factors

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having reasonable work hours, job security, a short commute from and to your workplace, and sufficient pay

51
Q

Human Ecological Theory / Bioecological System Theory

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A person’s development is affected by everything in their surrounding environment. Whatever happens in one level can affect the rest of the system.

52
Q

5 levels of the Human Ecological Theory

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  1. Microsystem
  2. Mesosystem
  3. Exosystem
  4. Macrosystem
  5. Chronosystem
53
Q

Microsystem

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the individual’s immediate environments (family, school,
peer group, neighborhood, and childcare environments);
most influential leve

54
Q

Mesosystem

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Direct connections between immediate environments (i.e., a
child’s home and school)

55
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Exosystem

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Refers to a setting that does not involve the person as an
active participant, but still affects them. (such as parent’s workplace)

56
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Macrosystem

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Encompasses the cultural environment in which the person
lives and all other systems that affect them

57
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Chronosystem

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Includes the transitions and shifts in one’s lifespan and the
socio-historical contexts that may influence a person (Great Depression)