Lesson 3 Career Preferences and Personality.pptx
- 1. Lesson 3: Career Preferences and Personality Lesson 3
- 2. An important factor in choosing your career is the combination of traits that you have. There are numerous ways on how you can determine your personality traits. However, how exactly can you match your career choice with your characteristics? This lesson focuses on how assessment tools can help you identify your unique qualities and traits. These help in aiding you in choosing the proper career for you.
- 3. When you were still a child, you are not expected to have full understanding of your personality. But it is a different story when itcomes to adolescents. At this stage, you must have knowledge of your nature, eccentricities, and other qualities that make you unique. The life goals that you make, including your potential career, are your extensions. They are reflections of who or what you are.
- 4. Measuring the Self: the Use of Psychological Tests The advances in the field of Psychology have produced assessment tools that measure the different dimensions of human behavior. Levels of intelligence, personality traits, reflex actions, degree of aggression and even emotional states are just some of the variables that can be measured. In this lesson, you will describe some assessment tools.
- 5. Psychological Assessment The American Psychological Association defines personality assessment as “the administration, scoring, and interpretation of empirically supported measures of personality traits.” Assessment has several purposes wherein one involves the accurate prediction of the behavior in different settings or situations, like in educational and organizational settings.
- 6. Psychometrics It is a field in the study of human behavior that deals primarily with the creation of measurements for behavior or psychological tests. It relies on theories to explain different psychological concepts. These theories are used as guides in the actual development of a test. The behavioral dimensions to be measured can include knowledge, personality traits, attitudes, and abilities. The main concern of psychometrics is to find the individual differences among people.
- 7. Psychological Tests Anastasi defined psychological tests as standardized instruments used to measure samples of behavior (or different dimensions of behavior). These tests are standardized because specific and uniform instructions are given which means that the procedures do not change. Also, psychological tests were tested to different groups of respondents in different areas or places so that a convincing comparison between the examinee and the previous respondents can be made.
- 8. Significance of Psychological Tests Psychological tests have many uses. In the educational setting, they provide information about the impact of teaching methodologies - whether they are adequate or if they can still be improved. The specific people who handle and administer psychological tests are the school psychologists, guidance counselors and psychometricians. In business and organizational settings, psychological tests are used for the purposes of recruitment or the process of choosing the job candidates to be hired, advancement or the process of promoting individual employees, and evaluation of the overall status of the recruitment division of the company and the employees.
- 9. REMEMBER ME! Psychological tests are used in different areas like educational settings to measure the effectiveness of the teaching methodologies and in business and organizational settings like recruitment, promotion, and evaluation.
- 12. Self-Assessment Now that you know why assessment is important, it is time to know how you can assess yourself. The stairs that you have to climb in order to reach the top. Your interests may represent the bottom part of the stairs. The succeeding steps symbolize the process of how a career is developed.
- 13. The Interview and the Counseling Session A part of the services of the guidance office is helping students map-out their future career. This is usually done before the end of the school year for senior high school students. This prepares them about the nature of their prospective careers, the course to take, and the expectations that they should have regarding their choice of careers. The Guidance Office also provides testing services to students. This means that students are tested using valid and reliable psychological tests.
- 16. Career planning can be a daunting task. However, one must just remember that the establishment of goals and the commitment in pursuing these goals are the key ingredients in attaining the dream profession aspired, and enjoying a high quality of living as well. The student can use this table to represent his detailed actions.