Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Caraga Administrative Region
Division of Agusan del Sur
PATIN-AY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
(Carved- Out School from ASSAT/DepEd Accredited Technical Vocational High School)
(Operating Unit – Empowered)
D.O. Plaza Government Center, Patin-ay Prosperidad Agusan del Sur

CAREER GUIDANCE
ADVOCACY PROGRAM
FOR GRADE 12 STUDENTS

Module 5
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5 Future Combo, Activate!

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Introduction
“It takes two to tango!”
This cliché emphasizes the need for people to work zealously in tandem with
others to make their endeavors succeed. The same holds true for your career
development. While you consider the personal, academic, and familial factors in your
career development, you must likewise connect your life aspirations to the pressing
demands and trends in the local and global scenario. The word combo, an abbreviated
form of the word combination, signifies the convergence of personal career choices to
the actual needs in the labor market and industries.

By doing so, Grade 12 learners like you, are guided to fulfil the vision of the
Department of Education, which expects you to “contribute meaningfully in building the
nation.” This also ensures that you are able to attain your life and career goals vis-à-
vis working for the greater interests of the country at the macro-level. To help you
clearly determine the direction of your career choices, mission statements become
essential as the baseline of your career plans and actions. This module intends to
facilitate your ability to make such convergence possible.

I. Objectives
At the end of this module, the learners are expected to:
1. formulate mission statements in relation to life and career decisions aligned
to the curriculum exits;
2. link life and career decisions to the current demands and trends in the
regional and global level; and
3. appreciate how life and career decisions may contribute to national
development.

II. Motivation : The Five-Minute Mission

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 Procedure:
1. For this activity, refer to the picture above.
2. What is your first reaction when you saw the picture? What can you do to
help the person in the situation? If you will set a mission to change the
condition reflected in the picture, what do you think would you do?

Processing Questions:
1. How did you find this activity?
2. Have you experienced doing a mission to help others? Have you ever
supported an organization’s mission for charitable purposes? Can you relate
the experience?
3. How did this charitable work affect you?
4. Will you be willing to volunteer for missions that will help others? Why?

III. Main Activity

Answer Activity Worksheet No. 5.1 PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT & Activity
Worksheet No. 5.2: Ang Misyon Ko! Reality Check! in your workbook.

This section of the module guides you in the formulation of a personal

mission statement in relation to your life and career decisions.

Activity No. 5.1 PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT

Procedure:
1. Have some background information about mission statements.
2. Study the sample worksheet in the formulation of a personal mission
statement.
3. Fill out the worksheet for your own personal mission statement in your
workbook. Develop and finalize your statement.

Sample Worksheet for Personal Mission Statement (Activity Worksheet No.

5.1)
What is the most important thing or
I treasure my being a good student; I
event in your life right now that you
treasure my family. I believe that if I finish
treasure?
SHS, I can help my family financially.

What do you want to accomplish 3–5 Graduate from Senior High School
years from now? Enter college or Find a work
Start a small business or Enter TESDA

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 What do you consider an enjoyable
I am happy when I play guitar with my
thing to do?
friends and spend time with family
I am happy when I join and win in Math
competitions

What do you wish to become?

I dream to become a singer someday.
I plan to become an Engineer someday.
I want to have my own restaurant.

What can you do best? I am excellent in playing musical

instruments.
I work best in solving mathematical
problems.
I am an expert in cooking variety of
recipes.
What do you love to do?
Composing songs, singing
Calculating, making analysis
Experimenting new dishes

What kind of reputation do you want to I want people to see me as a responsible,

have? industrious, and competent worker.
How can you help in nation building? I can contribution to nation building by
excelling in my chosen career and by
serving my fellow Filipinos in the best way
I can.
Source of template:
(conduct.tcnj.edu/files/2011/11/Personal-Mission-Statement-Assignment.pdf).

Activity Worksheet No. 5.2: Ang Misyon Ko! Reality Check!:

Procedure: Create your final personal mission statement. A sample is provided below:

I am a committed student who aspires to graduate from SHS to be able to proceed to

(college, work, enterprising, TESDA). I will strive to achieve this for my family by
maximizing my strengths in (state your passion and strengths). I am a responsible,
industrious and competent worker. I could be of contribution to nation building by
excelling in my chosen career and by serving my fellow Filipinos in the best way I can.

Even organizations have their mission statements that define the reason for their
existence. Their activities are aligned toward these statements. Small scale
entrepreneurs and those who are self-employed are also guided by their own mission
statements to become successful. You must realize that your personal mission

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statements must harmonize with the mission statements of your prospective
occupational fields.

Processing:
1. What was your experience while writing your personal mission statement? How will
you be able to fulfill it? What may hinder you from not being able to fulfill it?
2. Is the mission statement from the person/organization you interviewed related to
your personal mission statement? What are the similarities?
3. Do you think your personal mission statement can contribute to national
development? In what way?

IV. Lecturette
“Where do I go from here?” This question may be posed by you now that
you are about to complete your Senior High School. To help you answer this, the
personal mission statement becomes very essential.

According to author Stephen R. Covey, a personal mission statement

enables a person to connect with (his) own unique purpose and the profound
satisfaction that comes from fulfilling it.
- (https://www.livecareer.com/quintessential/creating-personalmission-statements).

This statement provides an individual with a clear direction of where he

wants to go and what he wants to achieve. As learners are about to embark on
their career in any of the four curriculum exits, such statement will allow them to
focus on the path they will follow with conviction in the face of any challenging
circumstances.

For a personal mission statement to become fulfilling, it has to make a

difference in other people’s lives or organization. This means that a person will
seek his purpose and what he can contribute best not only for himself but also
for his family, friends, prospective employer, the community, and the world in
general.
-(https://www.livecareer.com/quintessential/creating-personal-mission-statements).
To enable learners to craft a personal mission statement, the following
contents should be reflected:
1. their values and personal beliefs,
2. goals,
3. things that make them happy,
4. their dreams and vision about their future,
5. what they are good at,
6. what they are passionate about, and
7. how they want others to perceive you.

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 Although a personal mission statement serves the purpose of directing the
learners to life and career decisions, the process of career development entails
another step. That involves the gathering of information for them to make the
wisest choices.

In Module 3 of the Career Guidance Program for Grade 11, learners

familiarized themselves to government agencies for career linking. This included
Project JobsFit that provides timely, relevant, and accurate labor market signals
for in-demand jobs and skills shortage.

Department of Labor and Employment assures that there are plenty of local
jobs in the country. It has logged an estimated 200,000 vacancies by employers
in the enhanced Phil-Jobnet, the government’s online job search
-(Source: http://www.ro1.dole.gov.ph/default.php).

The Department’s labor market study, Project JobsFit: DOLE 2022, reflects
the regional industries, key employment generators, and current occupational
and courses trends and demands in the local and global scenario (refer to
Appendices 3 and 4).

As a learner, you must also realize and sincerely understand is that your
mission statements do not end in your personal development and interest.
Rather, it is intricately linked to what you aspire your country to be. Dr. Jose P.
Rizal rested his hopes that the youth will be instrumental in nation building when
he remarked that they are the hope of the motherland. This implies that when you
plan for your career choice, you should also consider factors like the country’s
economy and hence, synchronize your career choices to benefit the country as
well.

The youth of today who will soon build the nation of tomorrow. It is very
essential for them to realize that even at their young age, they could embrace
their social responsibilities by being aware that they could already do something
to contribute to nation building. By fulfilling their tasks and duties as children to
their parents and as students in schools, they are already trained to take on roles
that allow them to be productive and value-laden citizens.

Now that they are about to exit from Senior High School, they should be
more conscientious that they are critical in contributing to making the Philippines
progressive. As such, the learners are highly enjoined to commit themselves to
live up to their personal mission statement in making a difference to other
people’s lives and give a contribution to the community at large. When learners
collectively align their personal missions to this end, the vision of nation building
through them becomes attainable.

Needless to say, the parents and relatives of these learners and the
government have invested on them as human capital, with the hope that in the
near future, they will partake in the noble mission of building the country and

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 ushering it to the progress that it has visualized for the people and the nation as
a whole. Being the human capital, it is but fitting that they enhance their skills,
values, and interests that would tell them of the most appropriate curriculum exits
they would finally choose. By working to ensure that they work best in what they
will be doing, they become empowered and ready to engage in activating the
most promising future for them, their family, their community, and the nation at
large.

V. Application

Processing Questions:
1. Do you think you made the right career decisions? How so?
2. What are the hindrances that you identified in this module? Can you overcome
these through your goal motivators? in what way?
3. Based on the current trends and demands, is your career choice aligned to
what is needed in your region? What do you think is the effect of aligning your
career to the local and global needs to nation-building?

VI. Evaluation: Build Me Up! Mantra (The Nation Building Contribution)

Procedure:
• Come up with a mantra, by mentioning how the curriculum exit will contribute
to national development.

Example:

Patungo sa Kolehiyo, Progresibo!

• Ask the groups to finalize their mantra in a yell, jingle, or in cheering form.
• Each group will present their mantra to the class.

Processing Questions:
1. How committed are you to live up to your group mantra? Is it doable?
In what ways can you fulfill it?
2. How can your group mantra contribute towards nation building?

VII. Reflection

In your career journal, answer the following question: How will I connect my
personal mission statement to fulfill my mantra?

VIII. Additional Activities:

1. Post your personal mission statement in your Facebook status.

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 2. Use the hashtag #mypersonalmissionmantra

Glossary

CAREER CHOICE – process of choosing a career path that involves choices

regarding education and training for a given career (http://www.igi-
global.com/dictionary/career-choices/3355)

HINDRANCE – a person or thing that makes a situation difficult; a person or thing

that hinders someone or something; the act of making it difficult for someone to
act or for something to be done (http://www.meriam-webstercom)

MANTRA – a sound, word, or phrase that is repeated by someone who is praying or

meditating; a word or phrase that is repeated often or that expresses someone’s
basic beliefs (http://www.meriam-webstercom) mission – a task or job that
someone is given to do (http://www.meriam-webstercom)

TREND – a general direction in which something is developing or changing; to extend

in a general direction: follow a general course (http://www.meriam-webstercom)

Reference:

Steven Covey. First Things First. (https://www.livecareer.com/quintessential/creatingpersonal-

mission-statements)

conduct.tcnj.edu/files/2011/11/Personal-Mission-Statement-Assignment.pdf

http://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/career-choices/3355

http://www.meriam-webstercom