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Table of Contents

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Name:_______________________________________ Grade Level: _____

(Week No.___)
LESSON 11
Career Pathways
Learning competency/ies: discuss the external factors influencing career
choices that may help in career decision making;

Objectives

This lesson aims to:

a. discuss the external factors influencing career choices that may help in
career decision making; and
b. identify pros and cons of various career options with the guidance of
parent, teacher, or counselor

Review
Directions: Read the poem below and answer the following questions.
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!

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Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Questions:
1. In choosing a career, what do you prefer between careers that are
likely to be chosen by your friends and classmates or careers that
very few students will likely to choose?
2. If you are told by your parents to take a certain career because
they thought it will be best for you, will you take it? Why or Why
not?

Pre-assessment
Directions: Read the questions/statements carefully, and select the best
answer.

1. It begins with evaluating your current state of career awareness and

readiness
A. Career B. Career Choice C. Career Pathway
2. It serves to be a predictor and determinant of their prospective level of
income, nature of work and consequently leaves a mark on the
personality, demeanor and outlook of an individual.
A. Career B. Career Choice C. Career Pathway
3. It is identified as the most influential extrinsic factor in career choice
decision.
A. Financial Remuneration
B. Job accessibility
C. Professional Prestige
4. This factor considers nearness to employment locations.
A. Financial Remuneration
B. Job accessibility
C. Professional Prestige
5. This factor is considered by students so they could live good lives and be
respected in the society.
A. Financial Remuneration
B. Job accessibility
C. Professional Prestige
Introduction

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This module will help you weigh the pros and cons in your various career
options. It will also guide you on how to take different advices from the persons
around you.

Content
Career Pathway Development
Creating a career pathway begins with evaluating your current state of
career awareness and readiness. Identifying a potential career opportunity
based on interests, skills, work experiences and work values is the motivation
behind this evaluation. Work values are worth identifying because of the
connection to career satisfaction. Examples of work values include working
conditions and job advancement potential. After pinpointing an appealing career
choice, it’s time to map out a reasonable and workable pathway with the help of
qualified resources.

Career Resources and Support

A number of resources are available to get a career pathway started. In
addition to professional career counseling businesses, most states have
workforce development career centers that provide access to skill assessments
and job databases. Networking with members of trade organizations, such as
professional accounting or engineering groups, can also yield information about
various career pathways. Students can turn to school guidance counselors or
college career services for help.

Career Choice
The influence of career choice has a lasting impact on an individual. It
serves to be a predictor and determinant of their prospective level of income,
nature of work and consequently leaves a mark on the personality, demeanour
and outlook of an individual. Thus one wrong decision can change the fate of
an individual. It is difficult for everyone to make a decision regarding their
career. This individual action is manifested on a larger scale in the economic
prosperity of a nation. Individuals who are misfits in their workplace tend to be
less productive and efficient, and therefore are unable to achieve their goals.

Extrinsic Factors Affecting Career Choice

Extrinsic factors examined in the reviewed articles included financial
remuneration, job security, professional prestige and job accessibility.

Financial remuneration was identified as the most influential extrinsic factor

in career choice decision. Income was considered as an important component of
life, particularly among youth who had a higher level of individualism
(Agarwala, 2008; Wüst and Leko Šimić, 2017). Wüst and Leko Šimić reported
that German students ranked “a high income” highest with a 3.7 out of 5 and
regarded it as the most important feature of their future job in comparison to
Croatian students who gave it a lower ranking of 3 out of 5 (Wüst and Leko
Šimić, 2017). While amongst Indian management students, it was rated as the

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third most important factor influencing career choice (Agarwala, 2008).

Financial reward was also a high motivator for career decision among Chinese
migrant students in Canada (Tao et al., 2018), and Korean students (Choi and
Kim, 2013). In contrast, the need for higher remuneration did not influence
career decision making among engineering students in India (Gokuladas, 2010),
and Japanese senior college students (Yamashita et al., 1999).

Professional prestige was identified as an important deciding factor for youth

career decision making in India (Agarwala, 2008), South Africa (Bojuwoye and
Mbanjwa, 2006), Croatia (Wüst and Leko Šimić, 2017), Japan and Korea
(Yamashita et al., 1999), which are all collectivist settings. Prestige statuses
attached to some occupations were strong incentives to career choices; was
ranked as the second most important positive influence in career decision
making by over half of the respondents in a South African study, indicating that
these youths wanted prestigious jobs so that they could live good lives and be
respected in the society (Bojuwoye and Mbanjwa, 2006). Japanese and Korean
students were also highly influenced by occupational prestige (Yamashita et al.,
1999); however, the Korean students considered it of higher importance than
their Japanese counterparts.

Job accessibility was also considered as a deciding factor for youth's career
decision in a collectivist Burkina Faso society where nearness to employment
locations prevented students from choosing careers related to their preferred
fields of endeavor (Atitsogbe et al., 2018). Another study explored the
perceptions of hospitality and tourism career among college students and
demonstrated that Korean students are more likely to focus on current market
trends such as job accessibility in comparison to their American counterparts
(Choi and Kim, 2013), implying that they are less flexible with their choices.
However, job accessibility and vocational interest were less predictive of career
explorations than personality traits in both cultural settings in a different study
(Fan et al., 2012).

Job security was reported as influential in only one study where it was
identified as highly important by German youth in comparison to their Croatian
counterparts (Wüst and Leko Šimić, 2017). They suggested that their findings
are in line with the uncertainty avoidance index proposed by Hofstede (2011)
which also takes on a relatively high value for Germans. They provided two
major reasons for the findings—(1) “secure jobs” has a tradition for young
Germans and (2) change in employment contracts in Germany; with fewer
employees under 25 having permanent contracts (Wüst and Leko Šimić, 2017).

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Self-Check Activities
Pros and Cons of my Career Choice
Directions: Complete the chart below with pros and cons of your career choice

Pros
Cons

Career Choice

Key Concepts
 Extrinsic Factors Affecting Career Choice
o Financial remuneration
o Professional prestige
o Job accessibility
o Job security

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Evaluation
1. With your own career choice in mind, who influenced you to pursue
such career?

2. What external factors have you considered in choosing your career

choice?

3. From the previous activity you, have identified the pros and cons of
your career choice, do you still want to pursue your chosen career?

Enrichment Activities

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Documented Interview with Preferred Career

Practitioners
1. Name three (3) jobs/occupations that you feel so far you would want to
have in the future.

2. Do background research on this job by actually interviewing individuals

who hold such jobs. Find out the following information from the interview:
  Job Title/Position Title
  Needed academic preparation
  Skills, Knowledge, Abilities, expected competencies to succeed in
 the job
  Demand for the Job
  Perks of the job
  Difficulties/Challenged
  Expected compensation/remuneration package of a person
 occupying the position

3. Write up the results of the research.

Bibliography
Online resources:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2018.00058/full

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

https://careertrend.com/about-5433957-definition-career-pathway.html

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