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,
1. identify and discuss the factors and importance on building
in building a career; meaningful career, and building
competencies. It look into career
2.discuss and differentiate the development, youth development and
concepts on career development, leadership and Youth development
youth development, and leadership framework.
and its interrelatedness in career
planning;
LESSON PROPER
3.discuss the importance
of engagement in quality
MODULE 1- LESSON 3-
career development
Building Career and Building
activities;
Competencies
4. build competencies to succeed
in employment; INTRODUCTION

Building a successful and

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

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

1. Career Development B. Building Vocabulary

2. Youth Development
Find the meaning of the
and Leadership
Following words:
3.Youth
Development 1. Financial Trade-offs -
Framework
2.Economic Uncertainty-

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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
B. BUILDING YOUTH COMPETENCIES leadership as they begin to assume
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 3.Youth Development Framework
guide or direct others on a course of
action, influence the opinion and Career development is a fundamental
behavior of other people, and show aspect of youth development and
the way by going in advance” leadership. The following youth
(Wehmeyer, Agran, & Hughes, 1998); development frameworks illustrate
and (2) “the ability to analyze one’s this.
own strengths and weaknesses, set
personal and vocational goals, and
have the self-esteem to carry them
1. NCW
out. It includes the ability to identify
D/Youth’s Youth
community resources and use them,
Development and Leadership
not only to live independently but
Framework
also to establish support networks to
participate in community life and to -This organizes youth development
affect positive social change” competencies into the following five
(Adolescent Employment Readiness developmental areas:
Center, Children’s Hospital, n.d.). learning, connecting, thriving,
working, and leading (Edelman et al.,
2004). Within this framework, working
refers to the development of positive
Table 1: Career-Development
attitudes, skills, and behaviors around
Skills & Skill-Building Activities
occupational and career direction.
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
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45-Providing-Quality-Career-Development.pdf
emphasizes that youth need a variety
of competencies, as well as agency
In helping youth develop into and an integrated identity, in order to
competent adults who lead, youth function in different settings as adults.
programs are simultaneously These three factors for success are
preparing you to be successful in the described by Nagaoka and colleagues
workplace. The youth leaders whom as “the agency to take an active role
your organization assists are gaining in shaping one’s path, the ability to
competencies necessary to lead incorporate different aspects of
their own lives, and influence their oneself into an integrated identity, and
community as well as competencies the competencies needed to
to lead in the workplace. Providing effectively navigate a range of social
youth with opportunities to develop contexts” (p. 21). The framework also
career competencies is imperative to identifies the following four
helping these youths become components as underlying the
successful adults. development of the key factors: self-
regulation, knowledge and skills,
mindsets, and values. While the

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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
youth’s agency aligns closely with the increase their understanding of the
career development process. Nagaoka value and relevance of formal
and colleagues describe having education to pursuing their career
agency as “having the ability to make goals. This increases their academic
choices and take an active role in motivation and engagement, which
managing one’s life path, rather than leads to increased academic skills.
being solely the product of one’s
circumstances”. Similarly, the career ● Leadership skills: Youth
development process described earlier develop leadership by taking the
in this brief aims to increase youth’s lead in their personal career
agency with respect to making career- development process.
related choices and actively managing
● Social skills and positive
their pathway to achieving their career
relationships: By working with
goals.
their family, school, or youth
program staff, counselors, mentors,
3.Restless Development
and other significant adults, youth
This states, “…Young people practice communicating and other
around the world must grow up to interpersonal skills while building a
be healthy, educated, employed, support network.
and empowered citizens who have
financial security, a meaningful ● Work readiness skills:
stake in governance, and whose Youth receive training and
rights are respected and upheld”. In opportunities to practice a wide
order for this to happen, youth need range of competencies needed to
preparation for and access to maintain employability and navigate
employment as well as a full range career changes throughout the
of youth development and lifespan. This includes soft skills and
leadership opportunities. Given the career specific skills, job search
shared goal of preparing youth to skills, financial literacy, and personal
successfully transition into competencies (Solberg, Wills,
adulthood, it is important to Redmond, & Skaff, 2015).
recognize that engagement in
Career development skill-
quality career development activities
building activities are a valuable
results in a 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
self-exploration skills are required in
skills: Youth learn how to develop
order for youth to learn to lead
career and academic goals and how
themselves. Possessing self-
to establish the short, medium, and
exploration skills positions young
long-term action steps needed to
people to be self-aware and to
pursue their goals.
assess their interests and values,
● Health and well-being: leading them to think critically about
Once youth discover their career their futures. “Values motivate how
and life goals, they become more one 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
current job market. With these
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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
COMPILED BY:
the quality career development
activities. Dr. Elisa C.

2.Write a short paragraph that Cristobal Dr.

outline your plan during this
Prescila Marcelo
semester.
Dr. May Rhea
3.Why have you chosen this
particular area of service? In what Lopez
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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