Personal Development

Quarter 2: Lesson 13 and 14_LECTURE

Lesson 13 Developing Family Relationships
• Family is considered as the basic unit of society.
• For a society to flourish, strong family relationships should be developed.
• Our Family teaches us how to function in the world. It should provide love and warmth to all of its members.
• A strong family gives its members the support they need to make it through everyday challenges.
Lesson 14.1 Persons and Careers Adolescents
• are often faced with difficulties when it comes to determining the right career path.
• They are in constant dilemma since it is difficult to arrive at a single career decision for various personal factors
should be considered.
• Peer pressure can be another problem where teenagers are influenced by their peers to take a particular course
for the group without taking into consideration their personal abilities and interests.
• Parents or guardians are also at the losing end since they have to bear financial responsibility each time their child
decides to take a different course.
• A career can be defined as a pattern of work experiences comprising the entire life span of a person and which is
generally seen with regard to a number of phases or stages reflecting the transition from one stage of life to the
next (Weinert, 2001). Similarly, Collin (1998) explains that the term career arises from the interaction of individuals
with organizations and society. This interaction, as Savickas (2009) proposes, is no longer merely just a sequence
of jobs but is now a story that working people build about themselves.
Goal setting is a major component of the career planning process.
• The definition of goal setting is the process of identifying something an individual wants to accomplish and establish
measurable goals and time frames.
• In this context, the goals can be career objectives, for example a particular occupation with specific salary bracket
earnings.
• Goal setting is a technique pioneered by Locke (1968) which affects performance in four ways: focuses attention;
mobilizes effort in proportion to the demands of the task; enhances persistence; and encourages the
individual to develop strategies for achieving their goals.
• In the life of adolescents, it is imperative that they have clear idea of what they want to happen in their future lives,
especially as regards their future careers.
• Sooner or later, they are bound to finish their studies, so it will be helpful to think about their life goals and the
specific ways through which they can achieve them.
Life Goals
• Life goals basically refer to an individual’s aspirations, missions, ambitions, and dreams in various aspects of his
life. Achieving life goals may start with goal setting.
• Identifying one’s goals in life is highly essential as it may serve as one’s guide or direction towards what a person
wants to happen in his or her life.
• Goals help people identify and evade distractions and brings them back to the right track when they are lost.
• Some Guides to Setting Life Goals The following are some helpful guidelines on setting goals in life.
o List down the primary goal you want to achieve in your life.
o Break it down into smaller goals.
o Provide a time frame for each smaller goal.
o Identify other things that are necessary in attaining these goals.
o Make a plan on how to achieve those goals.
o Start carrying out the plan.
• Career Development
o Career development refers to “the lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions in
order to move toward a personally determined and evolving preferred future” (Career Development, n.d).
o Career development, an individual comes up with strategies to attain his or her career goals.
o It often involves choosing a course, acquiring education and training, applying for a job, and, if needed,
changing careers.
o Career development usually comes as a natural thing and may occur even without the participation of
career experts, counselors, teachers, mentors, parents, or guardians.
o Yet, the journey to a more satisfying and successful career path may come from getting assistance from
experts in managing one’s career development.
Lesson 14.2 Personal Factors Influencing Career Choices and External Factors
• The following are some of the personal factors that must be considered in choosing a career and setting life goals
as they could be determinant of success or failure of a person in his or her chosen career:
Personality/Character Personality refers to the combination of traits, characteristics, or qualities that form a person’s
distinct character.
o The personality type of an individual plays a role in choosing a career or life goal as the kind of profession
or vocation a person wishes to have must be compatible or fitting to his or her character.
o Self-assessment is helpful in learning about one’s personality and is finding the right career that matches
it.
Physical and Mental Abilities
o There are jobs that require specific physical and mental capacities. If one wants to make sports a
profession, he or she must have a healthy body.
o Professions like being a professor, lawyer, doctor requires having high IQ, exceptional common sense, and
logical thinking abilities.
Skills and Abilities
o In choosing a career, an individual should take into consideration his skills, general intelligence, and special
abilities. While these may not fully guarantee that one will succeed in a certain course. One who has poor linguistic
and literacy competencies, for instance, can hardly become successful in journalism or scriptwriting.
Interests
o One’s positive preference and passion towards a certain kind of undertaking is a factor in becoming successful in
that task. Students normally choose a course that they find interesting or something that they enjoy doing or
learning about. However, interests may fluctuate or shift over time and may not really be a dependable criterion for
career choice.
Life experiences
o The experiences we had in our lives may influence the way we choose our careers. The positive feelings that one
got in doing a specific task in the past and the role models whom he or she met in that field may determine his or
her career choice. For instance, if, as a student, one enjoyed being a student-tutor to other students and idolized a
particular professor, he or she might choose teaching as a profession.
Values
o An individual’s principles or standards of behavior are collectively called as his or her values. Values may also refer
to a person’s judgment of what is important in life. One’s value system is a set of a person’s personal ethic values
which serves as his moral code.