Persons and Careers Flashcards
Risks and challenges in determining one’s goals and career
- to know what you really, really want in your life
- to visualize a future with the course you are taking
- to visualize yourself doing the things you like
- to do and make a living out of it
- to allow yourself to be disturbed for a while and not to be redirected to your real calling
- to take a detour and shift to a course if you feel that you are better off somewhere else
- to be different
- to follow your heart
defined as a profession for which one is trained and undertaken as a permanent calling
Career
two possibilities related to career choice
- it may be either be consistent since childhood, that is one particular experience established the choice of one’s career
- certain adolescents may shift career choices from time to time due to their encounters with different individuals they deem worth emulating
one of the career development theories (Flanigan, 2011)
Trait and factor
refers to unique characteristics of a person
trait
refers to the known requirements for the job
factor
states that a wise vocation choice required understanding of the self-attitudes, abilities, inserts, ambitions, resources, and limitations.
Parson
provide direction and meaning to why one wakes up in the morning and continue living
life goals
an end towards which one’s efforts are all directed
goals
Individually unique, consistent pattern of behavioral and psychological attributes that endure overtime and across situations (Smith, 1998)
Personality
A combination of long lasting and distinctive behaviors, thoughts, motives and emotions that typify how we react and adapt to other people and situations (Plotnick, 2006)
Personality
Different aspects of personality
Physical aspect
Mental aspect
Emotional aspect
Social aspect
Spiritual aspect
Moral aspect
refers to physical features of a person such as height, color of the eyes, skin, the way one carries himself or herself and the entire physical appearance of thee person
Physical aspect
refers to the manner of talking, and the range and depth of ideas shared by the person
Mental aspect
refers to the persons propensities and expressions, his or her like and dislikes, including his or her unique responses to emotional situations
Emotional aspect