Exam 1 Flashcards
Parsons 3 step process
- self assessment
- study of options
- careful reasoning
self assessment
understand your values, interests, and skills (VIS)
study of options
understand your options related to school and training
careful reasoning
make an informed choice based on information you gathered
career development definition
the total constellation of economic, sociological, psychological, educational, physical, and chance factors that contribute to shape one’s career
career definition
time extended working out of a purposeful life pattern through work undertaken by a person
work definition
an activity that produces something of value for oneself and/or others
Rowe’s Formula (12 factors)
general learning/education, special acquired skills, physical characteristics, cognitive/natural abilities, temperament/personality, interests/values, gender/ethnicity, state of economy, family background, chance, friends/peers, marital situation
Personal Career Theory Creator
Holland
Structured theorists definition
view career problems and decisions as a point in time event, focus on what to choose and matching to an environment
structured theorists
Parsons, Rowe, and Holland
Frank Parsons
each choice is separate and independent, need good info on self and occupation, careful use of reason and logic, good self assessment is essential “measure twice, but once”
John Holland
developed a typological theory about personality types and matching groups, applicable to many environments: social, organizational, schools, interpersonal relationships etc
process theorists definition
view career problems and decisions as lifelong, developmental process of events/choices that become more complex as one grows older
process theorists
John Krumboltz, David and Anna Tiedman, Donald Super
John Krumboltz
learning about oneself, affected by positive and negative experiences, personal beliefs and expectations, negative self-talk impedes career development
David and Anna Tiedman
Ship as a metaphor for career choices (no horizon to guide the process, just compass, charts, and currents), introduced a model of career deciding. Anticipation: primarily in the mind. Implementation: behavioral actions. 7 step iterative process
Donald Super
choices based on one’s own self-concept, individuals seek to implement self-concept through occupation. personality + occupation = career. life and career rainbow
Stages of life and career rainbow
student, leisurite and recreationist, citizen, worker, homemaker
Stages of Cognitive Information processing pyramid
knowledge domain, decision making skills domain, executive processing domain
2 parts of knowledge domain
knowledge of self and knowledge of occupations
stages of CASVE
communication, analysis, synthesis, valuing, execution
metacognition
thinking about how you think
CASVE stage: communication definition
identifying a gap (what exists versus what you want), external and internal conditions
CASVE stage: analysis definition
thinking about your alternatives, understanding how you make decisions, self-awareness
CASVE stage: synthesis definition
identify course of action to remove gap creating likely alternatives, elaboration: brainstorm all possible outcomes, crystallization: narrow down 3-5 options
CASVE stage: valuing definition
prioritizing alternatives, judge the costs and benefits
CASVE stage: execution definition
taking action to narrow the gap, turn thoughts into actions
knowledge of self pyramid stages
knowing about myself, knowing about my options, knowing how i make decisions, thinking about my decision making
2 aspects of self knowledge
values, interests, skills
values definition
things that are desirable, important, or necessary to you. your compass and guideposts
Big 6 variables to assessing a job
how much will you make, where will you live, what are your responsibilities day 1, what are the growth opportunities, is it stable, do you like it
Super and Katz 1950s
analyze how work values are involved in career choice, self esteem and well being are better when working in an organization that matches one’s values
work salience
how much work matters to the individual
SIGI values (8)
high income, prestige, independence, helping others, security, variety, leadership, leisure
7 step value clarification process
choosing a value 1. freely and without pressure 2. from among alternatives 3. after thinking about the results then 4. being pleased with your choices 5. being willing to state publicly 6. doing something behavioral 7. acting consistently and repetitively
Rokeach’s values
terminal and instrumental values
terminal values
properous life, “end states’ of existence” worth personally or socially striving for
instrumental values
hard working, ways of acting and behaving
Rokeach’s terminal values
comfortable life, exciting life, world at peace, world of beauty, equality, family security, freedom, happiness, inner harmony, mature love, national security, pleasure, salvation, self-respect social recognition, true friendship, wisdom
Rokeach’s instrumental values
ambitious, imaginative, broadminded, independent, capable, intellectual, cheerful logical, clean, loving, courageous, obedient, forgiving, polite, helpful, responsible, honest, self-controlled
interests definition
those things a person does for fun or enjoys
John Holland
interest are another way of describing personality characteristics, the broader concept of personality is most important in occupational choice