Lesson 4 (Career Development) Flashcards
defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a person during
the course of a lifetime (Super, 1980).
career
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
position an individual holds doing specific duties. For example, if you would look
closely at the job of a lawyer, you can say that a lawyer’s job is working as an associate in X Law
Firm.
job
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
believes that skills and abilities need to fit the demands of a particular
career field. This being said, it is then important that you take stock of the skills, knowledge and
abilities that you currently possess and those that you still need to develop as these greatly impacts
that kind of career that could be a good match for you.
Trait and Factor model
a popular career counselor proposed a theory that
strongly believe that certain careers require certain personality traits and must also fit our
interests.
John Holland
career development
theorist believes that since we play an array of roles in our lives, these roles are likely to change
over time thus requirements, needs and other external forces would come into play when we are
trying to figure out or maintain a career.
Donald Super
Considering your skills and abilities and how they may fit a particular
occupation comes out of one of the earliest career development fields, Trait-Factor
theories, and is still used today.
Skills and Abilities
These theories recommend creating occupational profiles
for specific jobs as well as identifying individual differences, matching individuals to
occupations based on these differences. You can identify activities you enjoy and those in
which you have a level of competency though a formal assessment.
Trait-Factor
theories
widely used to connect
personality types and career fields. This theory establishes a classification system that
matches personality characteristics and personal preferences to job characteristics.
Holland’s Career Typology (Interest and Personality Type)
six personality/career types that help describe a wide range of
occupations.
Holland Codes
directly addresses the fact that we each
play multiple roles in our lives and that these roles change over the course of our lives.
How we think about ourselves in these roles, their requirements of them, and the external
forces that affect them, may influence how we look at careers in general and how we make
choices for ourselves.
Super’s Lifespan theory (Life Roles)
address factors related to our experiences with others and in previous work situations.
Having positive experiences and role models working in specific careers may influence the
set of careers we consider as options for ourselves.
Krumboltz’s Social Learning and Planned Happenstance theories
addresses the fact that 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.
Social Cognitive Career
Theory
Racial and ethnic background, as well as the culture of an individual’s regional
area, local community, and extended family, may impact career decisions. Our culture
often shapes our values and expectations as they relate to many parts of our lives,
including jobs and careers. Multicultural career counseling has emerged as a specialized
field to take these influences into consideration when counseling clients and students.
Culture
