Career Development Concepts And Factors Influencing Career Choices Flashcards
is the process of choosing a career, improving your skills, and advancing along a career path (McKay, 2020). It is a lifelong process of learning and decision- making that brings you closer to your ideal job, skillset, and lifestyle. Knowing career development concept is important to you as students, since it will allow you to understand yourselves and the opportunities in both the world and world of work so that when presented with opportunities you are prepared to make decisions about your future.
Career Development
are what we want to achieve, and they are much more meaningful than just what we need to accomplish to survive”, Unlike daily routines or short-term objectives, they drive our behaviors over the long run.
Life goals
are a set of fundamental beliefs, ideals or practices that inform how you conduct your life, both personally and professionally. You need to have a good understanding of yourself and your values to readily analyze your current or future situations. Your values give you a sense of purpose and are guideposts to what fits you best.
Core values
starts with knowing what is important to you (your values), what you enjoy (your interests), and what you do well (your skills). The pyramid below is a simple way to remember what is important in making career decisions.
Making Career Decision
What’s involved in a Career Choice
Thinking About My Decision Making
Knowing How I Make Decisions
Knowing About Myself
Knowing About Options
is defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a person throughout a lifetime (Super, 1980). Your career basically dictates a lot of things in your life it can determine 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.
Career
There are two other concepts that is often associated to the concept of career:
Job
Occupation
is a position an individual holds during specific duties, for example if you would look closely to a job of a lawyer you can say that a lawyer’s job is working as an associate in the X Law Firm
Job
is defined as the similar work for 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
Occupation
Donald Super built his developmental theory on the idea that your view of yourself changes. Time and experience help shape the way a person values their career and the goals they set. This theory defines a “career” as the entire lifetime of a person.
Super’s Career Development Theory
Important part of the development process is examining the different factors that will play an impact on one’s career choice.
Factors Influencing Career Choice
What are you the Influence Factors
Interest and Personality Type
Skills and Abilities
Life Roles
Childhood Fantasies
Previous Experiences
Gender
Culture
Social and Economic Conditions
