PERSONS

AND
CAREERS

Prepared by: John Benedict C. Gojo Cruz, RPm

CAREER DEVELOPMENT
• Career development is a lifelong
process of managing learning, work,
leisure, and transitions in order to
move toward a personally
determined and evolving preferred
future.
• It is the process that forms a person’s
work identity and is a significant
aspect of personal development that
span’s over one’s lifetime, starting
from when the person first becomes
aware of how people make a living.
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Different fields define career development
differently.
• In education, career development
provides students a focus for selecting a
career or course to undertake in the
future.
• In organizations, the study of career
development looks at:
 How individuals manage their careers
within and between organizations; and
 How organizations structure the career
progress of their members; it can also be
tied to succession planning.
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• In personal psychology, career development
is defined as the “total constellation of
psychological, sociological, educational,
physical, economic and chance factors that
combine to influence the nature and
significance of work in the total lifespan of
any given individual.”
- “Lifelong psychological and behavioral
processes as well as contextual influences
shaping a person’s career over one’s life span;
as such, career development involves the
person’s creation of a career pattern, decision-
making style, integration of life roles, values
expression and life-role self-concepts.
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• For someone who would like to add value
to the organization and for career
development, it is important to develop
yourself and your skills.
• Developing your skills begins with
assessment.
• You have to evaluate which skills are
important to you for the career
development that you desire.
• Continuously learning and developing one’s
skills requires identifying the skills needed
for the job and then successfully seeking
available training and on-the-job
opportunities for developing those skills.
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In developing your skills, you should
follow the 70-20-10 rule.
• 70% of development should come
from on-the-job activities and
action learning.
• 20% of development should come
from interactions with others.
• 10% should come from training,
including classes, seminar,
webinars, podcasts, and
conferences.
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Two main avenues for developing your
skills are through education and
training.
These two can enhance professional life
in a number of significant ways:
 completing increasingly advanced
levels of education shows employer
that you have a drive; and
 commitment to learn and apply
information, ideas, theories, and
formulas to achieve a variety of tasks
and goals.
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On-the-job training and leadership experiences can
develop a range of skills and competencies. On-the-job
training involves:
• Taking on challenging assignments;
• Seeking out critical feedback on how your
performance might be improving, then
implementing a plan to improve your performance;
• Offering to manage project budgets to develop
financial and budgeting competencies;
• Taking the responsibility for writing or reporting on
project deliverables or benchmark other teams that
are known for high performance and/or strong
accountability; and
• Creating a plan to help your team meet or exceed
expectations.
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There are a few steps for you to take in order to manage
a developmental experience.
1. Take the initiative to look for ways that you can learn
new skills through experiences that also help your
supervisor/manager, team, unit or department
achieve goals.
2. Create a developmental plan with your
supervisor/manager to track progress.
3. Set up regular check-in meetings with the
supervisor/manager.
4. Review where supervisor/manager can provide the
most help in going forward.
5. Seek out feedback after a project’s completion to
discuss the positive, negative, and key lessons
learned, as well as to begin developing a new
development experience.
CAREER GOALS AND CHOICES
• If you want to be happy and successful in your career, you
need to set goals.
• Research studies show that people who set career goals
make more money and enjoy their work better than the
ones who do not.
• Being happy and fulfilled in your career is very important.
• You spend much of your time working that your happiness
or unhappiness at work will certainly affect your daily life.
• A career goal helps you focus on what you want to do for a
living.
• It will guide you into doing what you want with your life,
rather than just randomly ending up in a job.
• When you have a clear goal for your career, you can start to
focus your time and energy to achieve that goal and avoid
wasting your time and energy on activities that will take
you farther away from your goal.
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
• Howard Gardner himself has pointed to the eight
multiple intelligences that an individual may possess.
• The same may allow an individual to excel in any of
those whether it has to do with cognitive abilities,
psychomotor activities’ and the like.
• Such differentiates a person as it creates greater
potential that may influence his or her self-concept
and self-esteem.
• Belief that one has potentialities and gifts assures
strength from within that may manifests in how he
or she communicates with others and how he or she
asserts himself/herself as a significant entity who
may contribute significantly to the resolution of
issues and concerns confronting his or her
immediate community.
 SOME POINTERS TO HELP
YOU ACHIEVE YOUR CAREER
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
• Enhance your skills
• Update and add to your knowledge
• Establishing connections and interact
with other professionals
• Stay aware of other players in your field
• Know you worth (and fight for it)
• Take credit
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AND ASPIRATIONS
In evaluating people’s career vision and their
career aspirations, the following questions
may be asked:
• What is your career aspiration? Can you
describe it?
• What would you like to achieve in five or
ten years?
• What is your long-term career aspiration?
• What is your philosophy about work?
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AND ASPIRATIONS
• A career aspiration is a path
that you want to follow.
• It defines your career road
map, that is, the profession
or occupation you have
chosen as your life’s work.
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AND ASPIRATIONS
Career aspirations may be divided into categories which
include the following:
• Traditional career success
• Security
• Expertise
• Freedom
• Balance
• Comprehensive growth
• Stability
• New experiences
 PERSONALITY AND
CAREER
• Personality is the source of a person’s
attitude exhibited in the workplace over the
years.
• Different personality types differ in their
relevance with the nature of job
requirements and career success.
• If you are trying to decide on what career to
pursue, then you should find out what your
personality type is.
• Certain jobs or occupations are more
suitable for particular types than others are.
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CAREER
• A thorough self-assessment is needed to identify your values,
interests, and aptitudes.
• Personality, values, interests, and aptitude all taken together serve
to find the right career, better than just any one of these factors
alone.
• One way to learn about your personality is through career
personality testing.
• Career personality tests are more accurately called personality
instruments or personality inventories.
• Certified career development professionals, such as a career
counsellor or psychometrician, can administer these personality
instruments.
• They can also help you utilize what you learn from the results of
your assessment.
• Taken together with what you learn from your own self-
assessment can help you chooses a career.
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CAREER
Popular personality inventories:
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R)
• Edwards Personal Preference
Schedule (EPPS)
• Sixteen Personality Factor
Questionnaire (16 PF)
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory (MMPI)
HOLLAND’S THEORY
OF CAREER CHOICE
• Careers are determined by an interaction between our
personality and the environment in John Holland's
Theory of Career Choice.
• We want jobs with people like us.
• John Holland's Theory of Career Choice (RIASEC)
maintains that in choosing a career, people prefer jobs
where they can be around others who are like them.
• They search for environments that will let them use
their skills and abilities, and express their attitudes and
values, while taking on enjoyable problems and roles.
• Behavior is determined by an interaction between
personality and environment.
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