NSTP-CWTS 2 STUDY GUIDE 1– Career Planning

LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
OVERVIEW
After studying this module, you will be
able to: This module covers the concepts,
and importance on building
1. identify and discuss the factors in meaningful career, and building
building a career; competencies. It look into career
development, youth development and
2. discuss and differentiate the leadership and Youth development
concepts on career development, framework.
youth development, and leadership
and its interrelatedness in career
planning;
LESSON PROPER
3. discuss the importance of
engagement in quality career MODULE 1- LESSON 3-
development activities; Building Career and Building
Competencies
4. build competencies to succeed in
employment; INTRODUCTION

Building a successful and

5. develop into a well-rounded-
meaningful career requires time and
extension professional who can
effort. Aside from focusing on your
interact and work with different
educational background, there are
individuals, especially the youth.
factors that need to be considered
such as the job market and the
employability.
TOPIC
OUTLINE
A. Building a meaningful Career PRE ASSESSMENT

 How Employers View

the Job Market
ACTIVATING BACKGROUND
 What today’s employer KNOWLEDGE
require
A. Think and Discuss
 What do you want?
 Adopting to the Market 1. How and when will I achieve my
 What can you offer? training and education goals?
 Increasing your value
2. How and when will I gain the
additional skills and experience I
B. Building Youth Competencies
need?

1. Career Development
2. Youth Development and B. Building Vocabulary
Leadership
Find the meaning of the Following
3. Youth Development
Framework words:

1. Financial Trade-offs -

2. Economic Uncertainty-

3. Global Recruitment-

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 4. Job-Hopping- programs by building youth
competencies for the future. To
5. Corporate Culture-
make the connection clearer, let’s
examine the definitions of career
development and youth
DISCUSSION development and leadership and a
few youth development and
leadership frameworks.
A. Building a Meaningful Career
1. Career Development

Career development process

involves mastering a combination of
self-exploration, career exploration,
and career planning and
management skills. Work-based
learning and other hands-on
activities and experiences enable
youth to develop and practice these
skills. Incorporating career
development activities into youth
development and leadership
programs ensures that youth
acquire competencies they need not
only to enter and succeed in
employment but also to make
informed decisions about career
pathways, plan how to achieve their
career goals, and manage their
chosen career throughout life.

2. Youth Development and

Leadership

Youth development is a
process that prepares young people
to meet the challenges of
adolescence and adulthood through
a coordinated, progressive series of
activities and experiences that help
them to become socially, morally,
emotionally, physically, and
cognitively competent (Edelman,
Gill, Comerford, Larson, & Hare,
2004). While leadership is most
commonly associated with
influencing others or having
authority within a group, young
people also exercise a form of
leadership as they begin to assume
B. BUILDING YOUTH COMPETENCIES
responsibility for leading their own
In today’s market trend, lives. The National Collaborative on
employers expect more from their Workforce and Disability for Youth
prospective employees. They need a (NCWD/Youth) uses a two-part
candidate with the desired skills and definition of youth leadership that
cultural values. recognizes the significance of
personal leadership as young people
Career development does are making the transition from
connect with the goals of youth adolescence to adulthood. Youth
development and leadership

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leadership is (1) “The ability to guide 3. Youth Development Framework
or direct others on a course of action,
influence the opinion and behavior Career development is a fundamental
of other people, and show the way aspect of youth development and
by going in advance” (Wehmeyer, leadership. The following youth
Agran, & Hughes, 1998); and (2) “the development frameworks illustrate
ability to analyze one’s own this.
strengths and weaknesses, set
personal and vocational goals, and
have the self-esteem to carry them 1. NCWD/Youth’s Youth
out. It includes the ability to identify Development and Leadership
community resources and use them, Framework
not only to live independently but
also to establish support networks to -This organizes youth development
participate in community life and to competencies into the following five
affect positive social change” developmental areas: learning,
(Adolescent Employment Readiness connecting, thriving, working, and
Center, Children’s Hospital, n.d.). leading (Edelman et al., 2004). Within
this framework, working refers to the
development of positive attitudes,
skills, and behaviors around
Table 1: Career-Development Skills
occupational and career direction.
& Skill-Building Activities
Outcomes associated with working
include demonstrated work readiness
skills and involvement in meaningful
work that offers advancement,
satisfaction, and self-sufficiency.

2. Foundations for Youth Adult

Success: A Developmental
Framework developed by the
University of Chicago Consortium on
Chicago School Research.

-This framework identifies work as

one of several indicators of success for
youth, especially for youth ages 19 to 21
(Nagaoka, Farrington, Ehrlich, & Heath,
2015). The framework emphasizes that
youth need a variety of competencies,
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45-Providing-Quality-Career-Development.pdf
identity, in order to function in
In helping youth develop into different settings as adults. These
competent adults who lead, youth three factors for success are described
programs are simultaneously by Nagaoka and colleagues as “the
preparing you to be successful in the agency to take an active role in
workplace. The youth leaders whom shaping one’s path, the ability to
your organization assists are gaining incorporate different aspects of oneself
competencies necessary to lead into an integrated identity, and the
their own lives, and influence their competencies needed to effectively
community as well as competencies navigate a range of social contexts” (p.
to lead in the workplace. Providing 21). The framework also identifies the
youth with opportunities to develop following four components as
career competencies is imperative to underlying the development of the key
helping these youths become factors: self-regulation, knowledge and
successful adults. skills, mindsets, and values. While the
authors emphasize that employment

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is not the only indicator of success relationships because they realize
among young adults, the this is important to helping them
competencies that youth gain through achieve their goals.
the career development process also
help them function in different ● Academic motivation and
settings, not just the workplace. This skills: As they explore their career
framework’s focus on developing interests and options, youth increase
youth’s agency aligns closely with the their understanding of the value and
career development process. Nagaoka relevance of formal education to
and colleagues describe having pursuing their career goals. This
agency as “having the ability to make increases their academic motivation
choices and take an active role in and engagement, which leads to
managing one’s life path, rather than increased academic skills.
being solely the product of one’s
● Leadership skills: Youth
circumstances”. Similarly, the career
develop leadership by taking the
development process described earlier
lead in their personal career
in this brief aims to increase youth’s
development process.
agency with respect to making career-
related choices and actively managing ● Social skills and positive
their pathway to achieving their career relationships: By working with their
goals. family, school, or youth program
staff, counselors, mentors, and other
3. Restless Development
significant adults, youth practice
This states, “…Young people communicating and other
around the world must grow up to interpersonal skills while building a
be healthy, educated, employed, and support network.
empowered citizens who have
● Work readiness skills:
financial security, a meaningful stake
Youth receive training and
in governance, and whose rights are
opportunities to practice a wide
respected and upheld”. In order for
range of competencies needed to
this to happen, youth need
maintain employability and navigate
preparation for and access to
career changes throughout the
employment as well as a full range of
lifespan. This includes soft skills and
youth development and leadership
career specific skills, job search skills,
opportunities. Given the shared goal
financial literacy, and personal
of preparing youth to successfully
competencies (Solberg, Wills,
transition into adulthood, it is
Redmond, & Skaff, 2015).
important to recognize that
engagement in quality career Career development skill-
development activities results in a building activities are a valuable
variety of positive youth means to increase a wide range of
development outcomes, including youth development outcomes,
the following: including leadership skills.
Leadership is, in part, intrinsic, and
● Personal goal-setting skills:
self-exploration skills are required in
Youth learn how to develop career
order for youth to learn to lead
and academic goals and how to
themselves. Possessing self-
establish the short, medium, and
exploration skills positions young
long-term action steps needed to
people to be self-aware and to assess
pursue their goals.
their interests and values, leading
● Health and well-being: them to think critically about their
Once youth discover their career and futures. “Values motivate how one
life goals, they become more engages with the world,” affirms
motivated to learn how to manage Nagaoka and colleagues, “whether it
stress and physical, psychological, is with a specific behavior or
and emotional distress as well as something broader such as an
seek out more positive social occupation or role” (Nagaoka et al.,
2015, pg. 34). Acquiring career

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 exploration skills enables young
people to make informed career
choices as they become aware of the
possibilities and realities of the
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ACTIVITY
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Answer the following questions: ng_teens_with_career_planning

1. Identify
what are considered soft
skills and hard skills among the COMPILED BY:
quality career development activities.
Dr. Elisa C. Cristobal
2.Write a short paragraph that
Dr. Prescila Marcelo
outline your plan during this
semester. Dr. May Rhea Lopez

3.Why have you chosen this

particular area of service? In what
ways will your service benefit your
community and the university?

4.In what ways do you hope to

grow from your community service
experience this semester? What
new skills would like to develop?

SUMMARY

Building a successful and

meaningful career requires time
and effort. It is only a matter of
being courageous and committed
to following your goal in life.

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