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The document discusses factors that affect career choices and the four stages of choosing a career: self-awareness, opportunity awareness, decision making, and taking action. It also discusses the importance of career planning and having a roadmap.

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Career Pathways

The document discusses factors that affect career choices and the four stages of choosing a career: self-awareness, opportunity awareness, decision making, and taking action. It also discusses the importance of career planning and having a roadmap.

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Personal Development

Career Pathways

As part of being an adolescent, you will be faced with a lot of situations when you need to make
decisions and choices. This scenario has a great effect especially when you will choose which
career to pursue. The decision to choose your career is one of the most crucial things to make
that will have a lifetime effect in your life.
Factors Affecting Career Choices
Professional careers are personal choices driven by environmental, socio-emotional,behavioral,
and cognitive factors. Oftentimes, people take career aptitude tests in order to discover career
options that may suit them best, based on their thinking and adaptation styles, behaviors, and
leadership and learning styles. In the Philippines, the National Career Aptitude Examination
(NCAE) is annually administered to high school students in order to assess their competencies
and appropriate professional career. Senior High School programs in the country are also
offering students three study tracks to facilitate professional growth in the future.
1. Family, School, and Community Culture
You primarily interact with your family as well as with the people from your school and
community. Through your interactions, you learn to appreciate and view career options in
relation to the perspectives of your social relationships.
2. Economic Factors
Practicability and good-paying jobs also drive students towards a specific career path. Not all
students are well-off, thus a good education and a good career choice are used by many
students in order to overcome financial hardships or poverty. Also, career choices are greatly
affected by a practical mindset and the need for financial stability. Therefore, despite differing
personal choices or career options, an adolescent may choose a career path that is more
practical and better paying than what he originally intended to have.
3. Personality Factors
Personal qualities and interests also play a role in choosing your career. For instance, to assess
your interest based on personality types, Personality tests are also helpful determinants of
career preference. Being aware of your personality type, based on various personality tests, will
enable you to understand your working style, leadership qualities, potential challenges, and
strengths that will enable you to choose an appropriate career.
4. Socio-demographic Factors
Gender and location are also important factors in choosing a career. While no job is limited by
gender, some people and companies would still stereotype people based on their genders.
However, because adolescents are now being brought up in an era where gender equality is
prioritized, some students would choose careers that will allow them to break stigmas and
prove the stereotypes wrong.

The Four Stages in Choosing a Career


There are various factors that you should consider in selecting a career. These factors may
have various impacts to you. In choosing a career there are four stages that should be
considered. The four stages are as follows:
1. Self-Awareness. The first stage of choosing a career is self-awareness. Self-awareness
here pertains to your ability and capacity to recognize and acknowledge your skills, values,
interests, personality, strengths and areas for improvement. Being able to be aware of these
facets of the self is important to your success.
2. Opportunity Awareness.
This stage of choosing a career pertains to the process of accumulating information about the
possible opportunities such as availability of jobs, information of the degree or subject, possible
post-graduate opportunities, areas of specialization and job responsibilities that can be
available for you in a selected field.
3. Decision Making.
This stage of choosing a career pertains to the development of your decision. Decision making
process in this stage refers to the consultation with family, peers, school counselors and others.
One can also weigh down the pros and cons in pursuing other options.
4. Taking Action.
The final process of choosing a career is taking action which is usually done at the latter stage
of your study. This implies on finding available employers and job position possibilities. Another
part of this stage is creating applications and attending interviews. Since this process implies
that you are ready to enter the professional world, one possibility to improve and take action
during earlier years in college is to volunteer in an organization where your field of interest is
being practiced.

Setting Your Roadmap: The Importance of Planning the Career


Career planning is a method of ensuring that your career in on track. This helps in
facilitating the career goals with definite actions. A career plan makes you identify the
gaps that need to be filled in so the dream job is achieved.
A career plan is an always changing and improving. The constant modifications in lifestyles,
career opportunities, social relationships and environmental demands make a person adapt to
the nuances of daily living.

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