WHOLE BRAIN LEARNING SYSTEM

OUTCOME-BASED EDUCATION
PERSONAL GRADE
DEVELOPMENT 11/12

2
LEARNING QUARTER

MODULE WEEK 6

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 MODULE IN
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
11/12

QUARTER 2
WEEK 6

Persons and Careers

Development Team

Writer: Sherberk F. Cabrales

Editor: Julianne Grace B. Bugaoisan

Illustrator: Gilbert Francis U. dela Cruz

Lay-out Artist: Arsendio A. Cabacungan

Management Team:

Vilma D. Eda Arnel S. Bandiola

Lourdes B. Arucan Juanito V. Labao

Arsendio A. Cabacungan

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 What I Need to Know

This module provides you a better understanding of Persons and Careers. In your journey
through the discussions and different tasks, you are expected to:
1. explain that understanding different factors, career development concepts and personal life
goals influence career planning and decision making (EsP-PD11/12PC-IIf- 12.1); and
2. identify career options based on different factors, career development concepts and personal
life goals (EsP-PD11/12SR-IIf-12.2)

This module consists of one lesson, namely:

Lesson 1- Persons and Careers: Life Goals, Career Development, and Personal Factors
Influencing Career Choice

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 What I Know

Instruction: Write the word TRUE if the statement is correct; otherwise, write FALSE. Write your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Life goals are the ultimate goals in life that everyone must prioritize.
2. Career development is only applicable during high school because of the fact that the students are
still choosing the course they want to pursue in college.
3. It is undeniable that our personality and character are aspects we need to greatly consider in
choosing a career.
4. There are courses that require physical and mental qualifications.
5. Shopping from one course to another is normal for some students.
6. Goal setting encourages one to use his or her strengths.
7. Goals will only become goals if not actualized.
8. Public service is the least aspect to be considered in setting lifetime goals.
9. To become systematic, one must devise a plan and out a time table in each goal so that you will
have a direction of what you want in life.
10. We at times arrive at our career choices by having been inspired by a person we want to emulate
in life.

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 Lesson
Persons and Careers
1
In our discussion about stress, we found out that thinking about our future is one of the
triggering factors why we suffer from one. In our teenage years, we also tend to change our decisions
frequently. One of which is deciding on what career are we going to pursue. Coming up with the right
decision in terms of our career choice will greatly affect our future and our life as a whole. For this
particular week, we will dig deeper as we unearth concepts about careers, goals in life, and those
personal factors that influences our career decision making.

What’s In

We all have different goals in life, right? We also differ in our priorities. As you now enter
the final phase of your being adolescent, start prioritizing setting important goals in life. One essential
goal that we need to talk about is our “Life Goals.”

Source: indianexpress.com

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Life Goals
On certain points in our lives, we were commonly asked this question “What is your ambition
in life?” Can you still remember how you answered that question? Let us revisit your answers as we
talk about this important topic for Personal Development.

Life goals basically refer to an individual’s aspirations, missions, ambitions, and dreams in
various aspects of his life. Life goals are what we want to achieve, and they’re much more meaningful
than just ‘what we need to accomplish to survive’. Achieving life goals may start with goal setting.
Identifying one’s goals in life is highly essential as it may serve as one’s guide or direction towards
what a person wants to happen in his or her life. Now, why do we need to set goals in life? Well, a lot
of us in this world are dreamers. That being said, we dream for things that make us happy as well as the
things we love in life. Setting goals is very beneficial, here are some reasons behind it:
* Setting goals can clarify our behaviour
* Goals allow for feedback
* Goal-setting promotes happiness
* They encourage us to use our strengths
Goal setting therefore provides focus, helps people identify and evade distractions, and brings
them back to the right track when they are lost.

The following are some helpful guidelines on setting goals in life:

1. List down the primary goal you want to achieve in your life.
2. Break it down into smaller goals.
3. Provide a time frame for each smaller goal. Identify other things that are necessary in
attaining these goals.
4. Make a plan on how to achieve those goals.
5. Start carrying out the plan.

Setting Lifetime Goals in the Different Aspects in One’s Life

1. Career
What particular profession, occupation, or vocation do you want? In that career, what rank,
status, or position do you want to attain?
2. Financial
What is your target earning? When do you want to achieve it?

3. Education
What course do you want to take? What specific knowledge, skill, aptitude, or competency do
you what to acquire? What other trainings you need to have to achieve your goals?

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4. Family
Do you have a dream of marrying someday? Do you dream of becoming a parent? What do
you need to accomplish first before entering marriage life?
5. Physical
Do you want to maintain or achieve good health and physique? What steps will you take in
order to achieve these? Will your schedule allow you to allot extra time for this?
6. Pleasure
What are your dreams for pleasure? How do you want to enjoy your life with your wanted
occupation? Will your dream vacation enable you to have a lifestyle that you wanted?
7. Public Service
Do you want to serve other people? Do you want to do it through politics, religion, etc.? How
will you achieve this?

Career Development

Source: SlideShare.net

Career development is the lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions
in order to move toward a personally determined and evolving preferred future (Wikipedia).

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 In career development, an individual comes up with strategies to attain his or her career goals.
It often involves choosing a course, acquiring education and training, applying for a job, and, if needed,
shifting from one career to another.

Career development usually comes as a natural thing and may even occur even without the
participation of career experts, counsellors, teachers, mentors, parents, or guardians. Yet, the journey
to a more satisfying and successful career path may come from getting assistance from experts in
managing one’s career development.

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ACTIVITY 1. My Life Goals
Instruction: Complete the following questionnaire.
1. My long-range life goal: (Write your primary life goal.)
__________________________________________________________________________________
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2. My specific goals related to my long-range life goal: (Enumerate your particular goals that will
serve as smaller steps in attaining your life goals.)
__________________________________________________________________________________
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3. My plans in reaching/attaining the above-mentioned goals: (List the steps that you will take to
make your identified goals achievable.)
__________________________________________________________________________________
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Notes to the Teacher

Activity No. 1 will have a relationship with this week’s output. You may or
may not require the students to submit their answers for Activity No. 1. For
supplementary discussions about career development, the students may
access this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA9A1bVUW6I.

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 What’s New

Personal Factors That Influence Career Choice

Source: essay4today.com

With numerous number of options, how will you choose a career that's perfect for you? If you
don't have any idea what you want to do, the task may seem insurmountable. The following are some
personal factors that must be highly considered in choosing a career and setting life goals as they could
be determinant of success or failure of a person in his or her chosen career:

Personality/Character

We are all different. We have different tastes, preferences, and tempers. And someone’s success
at the particular job position depends on these things. There is a special theory which is called Holland
Occupational Themes which can answer how the personality of the work =seeker influence on his
choice, his work ambitions and abilities. (essay4today.com)

Personality refers to the combination of traits, characteristics, or qualities that form a person’s
distinct character. The personality type of an individual plays a vital role in choosing a career or even
life goals as the kind of profession or vocation a person wishes to have must be compatible or fitting to
his or her character.

There are careers that require specific types of personality. In sales and marketing, one should
be outgoing and friendly. In the medical field, alertness and accuracy are needed. A person, thus, needs
to consider his or her type of personality in making a sensible career plan.

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 Physical and Mental Abilities

There are specific jobs that require particular physical and mental capacities. To work on
airlines has height requirements. Entering the field of engineering requires high level of mathematical
proficiency. It is, thus, essential to find an occupation that matches one’s physical feature and cognitive
abilities.
Skills and Abilities

The potential of a student can be legitimate criterion for choosing a career. Very few are able
to identify their potential and choose their subject of knowledge based on it. A career selected on the
basis of one’s potential has greater prospect of assuring success.

In choosing a career, an individual should take into big consideration his/her skills, general
intelligence, and specific abilities. While these may not fully guarantee that one will succeed in a certain
course, they nonetheless would enable us to have an idea on the probability of at least faring in a
particular field. Example, one who’s poor in language and grammar would find a lot of difficulties
under journalism related courses.

Interests

One’s positive preference and passion towards a certain kind of undertaking is a factor in
becoming successful in that task. Students normally choose a course that they find interesting or
something that they enjoy doing or learning more about. However, our interests might have the tendency
to change from time to time. One must be careful in considering this personal factor.

Life Experiences

The experiences we had in our life may influence the way we choose our careers. The positive
feelings that one acquired in doing a specific task in the past and role models whom he or she met in
the field may determine his or her career choice. If someone has a positive role model in a particular
career or positive work experience it will definitely influence the future work choice. A research has
shown that a person prefers to continue the work in which he was more successful rather than start
doing something new. In fact, it is a great idea to focus on the work with proven success as well as with
positive self-esteem for most of us.

Values and Cultural Background

The cultural background of the person as well as his regional area and ethnic group can
influence the future work choice. Besides family of the job seeker and local community also can become
the factors which can determine someone’s future career. Person’s expectations and life values are
always shaped according to the cultural issues, and they have connections with different parts of our
lives. Understanding of the nature of our expectations and values can help us to understand our
personality and make a right career choice.

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 What’s More

Source: iresearchnet.com

Along with pragmatic factors, there are issues which can influence someone’s future work
choice. And they lie in the non-material plane. It’s important to choose the career which will bring
pleasure. Find your career passion and the work will always be a joy. You have to choose something
passionately for you. Find out what can inspire you and follow your inspiration. Answer the simple
question “do you really want this career?” If you are confused with your choice, just take a break and
clarify your thoughts.

You have to make a decision what purposes do you have right now. And what do you want to get
from your work? What are the reasons in favor of some particular career? Do you want to earn money
or you want to develop your talents? It’s great if you have an opportunity to choose the career which is
related to your hobby or interests.

So choosing the future career is perhaps the most important decision in our lives.

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 What I Can Do

Activity 2: My Life Plan

Instructions: This activity is connected with activity number 1. Based from your answers in
activity 1, fill-up the necessary information from the suggested diagram below.

LIFE GOAL

SPECIFIC GOAL SPECIFIC GOAL

SPECIFIC GOAL

STEPS IN STEPS IN STEPS IN

ATTAINING ATTAINING ATTAINING
EACH GOAL EACH GOAL EACH GOAL

Note: This is just a suggested format. You may tweek it and make your own design. You can
have more than 3 specific goals as well ☺

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Assessment
Instructions: Identify what specific personal factor affecting career choice is being described.
Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Some courses require a certain level of cognitive ability.
2. Career options in the Philippines may differ in Uganda.
3. If one is passionate in cooking, might as well take up Culinary as your course.
4. I am 5’3” in height and the minimum requirement for employment on airlines is 5’4”.
5. I haven’t tried joining a debate tournament so taking up a pre-law course is a no no for me.
6. I love traveling. I love meeting people and immersing myself to different cultures and languages.
I will take up International Relations in college.
7. I am into classical singing. I will try to enter the College of Music of the University of the
Philippines.
8. Everyone is taking up nursing to work in the United States. I should enrol myself in a nursing
school too.
9. I am good in memorization but I can’t stand to see blood and a dying person.
10. I have been a consistent national qualifier in journalism and I am planning to continue this
passion of mine.

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KEY ANWERS:
TRUE 10. 10. Skills and Abilities/ Interests
TRUE 9. 9. Interests
FALSE 8. 8. Values and Cultural Background
TRUE 7. 7. Skills and Abilities
TRUE 6. 6. Interests
TRUE 5. 5. Experience
TRUE 4. 4. Physical and Mental
TRUE 3. 3. Skills and Abilities/ Interests
FALSE 2. 2. Values and Cultural Background
TRUE 1. 1. Physical and Mental
Pre Test ASSESSMENT

References

Career development. (n.d). In Wikipedia.org.

De Guzman, Jens Micah, Nicolas, Maria Liza. 2016. Personal Development. A Textbook
and a Workbook. Malabon City

Process of career planning. (n.d). In Wikipedia.org.

Weitin & Lloyd. 1994. Psychology Applied to Modern Life. University of Kansas

www.essay4today.com

www.iresearchnet.com

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