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,
and importance on building meaningful
1. identify and discuss the factors in career, and building competencies. It
building a career; look into career development, youth
development and leadership and Youth
2. discuss and differentiate the development framework.
concepts on career development,
youth development, and leadership
and its interrelatedness in career
LESSON PROPER
planning;

3. discuss the importance of MODULE 1- LESSON 3-

engagement in quality career
Building Career and Building
Competencies
development activities;

4. build competencies to succeed in INTRODUCTION

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

TOPIC
OUTLINE PRE ASSESSMENT

A. Building a meaningful Career

ACTIVATING BACKGROUND
❖ How Employers View KNOWLEDGE
the Job Market
A. Think and Discuss
❖ What today’s employer
require 1. How and when will I achieve my
❖ What do you want? training and education goals?
❖ Adopting to the Market
❖ What can you offer? 2. How and when will I gain the
additional skills and experience I
❖ Increasing your value
need?

B. Building Youth Competencies

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

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 development
and leadership and a few youth
DISCUSSION 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
leadership as they begin to assume
B. BUILDING YOUTH COMPETENCIES responsibility for leading their own
lives. The National Collaborative on
In today’s market trend, Workforce and Disability for Youth
employers expect more from their (NCWD/Youth) uses a two-part
prospective employees. They need a definition of youth leadership that
candidate with the desired skills and recognizes the significance of
cultural values. personal leadership as young people
are making the transition from
Career development does adolescence to adulthood. Youth
connect with the goals of youth
development and leadership

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

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is not the only indicator of success relationships because they realize
among young adults, the competencies this is important to helping them
that youth gain through the career achieve their goals.
development process also help them
● Academic motivation and
function in different settings, not just
skills: As they explore their career
the workplace. This framework’s focus
interests and options, youth increase
on developing youth’s agency aligns
their understanding of the value and
closely with the career development
relevance of formal education to
process. Nagaoka and colleagues
pursuing their career goals. This
describe having agency as “having the
increases their academic motivation
ability to make choices and take an
and engagement, which leads to
active role in managing one’s life path,
increased academic skills.
rather than being solely the product of
one’s circumstances”. Similarly, the ● Leadership skills: Youth
career development process described develop leadership by taking the lead
earlier in this brief aims to increase in their personal career development
youth’s agency with respect to making process.
career- related choices and actively
managing their pathway to achieving ● Social skills and positive
their career goals. relationships: By working with their
family, school, or youth program
3. Restless Development staff, counselors, mentors, and other
significant adults, youth practice
This states, “…Young people
communicating and other
around the world must grow up to be
interpersonal skills while building a
healthy, educated, employed, and
support network.
empowered citizens who have
financial security, a meaningful stake ● Work readiness skills:
in governance, and whose rights are Youth receive training and
respected and upheld”. In order for opportunities to practice a wide
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 of career changes throughout the
youth development and leadership lifespan. This includes soft skills and
opportunities. Given the shared goal career specific skills, job search skills,
of preparing youth to successfully financial literacy, and personal
transition into adulthood, it is competencies (Solberg, Wills,
important to recognize that Redmond, & Skaff, 2015).
engagement in quality career
development activities results in a Career development skill-
variety of positive youth building activities are a valuable
development outcomes, including the means to increase a wide range of
following: youth development outcomes,
including leadership skills.
● Personal goal-setting skills: Leadership is, in part, intrinsic, and
Youth learn how to develop career self-exploration skills are required in
and academic goals and how to order for youth to learn to lead
establish the short, medium, and themselves. Possessing self-
long-term action steps needed to exploration skills positions young
pursue their goals. people to be self-aware and to assess
their interests and values, leading
● Health and well-being:
them to think critically about their
Once youth discover their career and
futures. “Values motivate how one
life goals, they become more
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
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Answer the following questions:

Identify what are considered soft

1.
skills and hard skills among the COMPILED BY:
quality career development activities.
Dr. Elisa C. Cristobal
2.Write a short paragraph that
Dr. Prescila Marcelo
outline your plan during this
semester. Dr. May Rhea Lopez

3.Why have you chosen this

particular area of service? In what
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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