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Career Pathways and Insights Into
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 Table of Contents

Cover Page i
Copyright Page ii
Title Page iii

Lesson 1: Career Pathways Page

What I Need to Know 1

What I Know 2

What’s In 4

What’s New
Activity 1.1 Essay Writing: A Puzzled Mind 4

What Is It
What influences Your Career Choice
5 Activity 1.2 Reflectionnaire
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Activity 1.3 The Quick Job Hunting 6
Holland’s Hexagon of Job Personalities 8
Activity 1.4 Compatible Work Environments 8

What’s More
Activity 1.5 Graphic Organizer 9

What I Have Learned

Activity 1.6 Career Collage 9

What I Can Do
Activity 1.7 Documented Interview with Preferred Career 10

Additional Activities
Activity 1.8 Make a Checklist on Your Career Option 11
Activity 1.9 Meet a Career Advisor 11

Lesson 2: Insights Into One’s Personal Development

What’s In 12

What’s New
Activity 2.1 Personal Mission Statement 12

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What Is It
What is a Personal Mission Statement 13
How to Make a Personal Mission Statement and Its Importance 14

What’s More
Activity 2.2 Enhanced Personal Mission Statement 15

What I Have Learned

Activity 2.3 My Generalizations 16

What I Can Do
Activity 2.4 Bucket List 16

Additional Activities
Personal Development Hindsight and Foresight 17

Assessment 17

References 19

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 Module
Career Pathways and Insights Into
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One’s Personal Development

What I Need to Know

For the Learners:

When you choose a career, there are many things that you need to consider:
the kind of work and its environment, the type of people you want to work with, the
nature of the job and its benefits, the skills and training needed, and the educational
attainment required. These are only few of the number of external factors which are
creatively integrated to the deep insights and factors in your personal development
which may guide you in the planning and making of a career decision as an
adolescent.

With this module, you will explore the external factors and the insights of
personal development affecting your decision in choosing a career and identify the
advantages and disadvantages of your career options with the help of important
people around you which you may need to design a career plan based on your
personal goals.

At the end of Lesson 1, you will be able to:

1. discuss the external factors influencing career choices that may help you in
career decision making; ( EsP-PD11/12CP-IIg-13.1)
2. identify pros and cons of various career options with the guidance of parent,
teacher, or counselor; and (EsP-PD11/12CP-IIg-13.2)
3. prepare a career plan based on your personal goal and external factors
influencing career choices. (EsP-PD11/12CP-IIg-13.3)

And at the end of Lesson 2, you will be able to:

1. explain the factors in personal development that may guide you in making
important career decisions as an adolescent; (EsP-PD11/12IOPD-IIm-14.1)
2. share insights that make you realize the importance of personal development
in making a career decision as adolescent; and (EsP-PD11/12IOPD-IIm-14.2)
3. construct a creative visualization of your personal development through the
various stages you went through, stressors, influences, and decision making
points, and a personal profile analysis. (EsP-PD11/12IOPD-IIm-14.3)

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 To be able to achieve maximum learning in this module, all you have to do is
to accomplish all given activities, basing from your personal opinion, first hand
experiences, and deep understanding and reflections taken from the different
readings/articles presented. Transfer of Learning greatly depends on your honest
and serious engagement.

Following the entire process will give you a better understanding and learning
of the career pathways and insights into one’s personal development.

For the Facilitators:

You are the guide and facilitator of this module. You shall lead the activities by
giving clear instructions, supervising the entire procedures, monitoring progress, and
evaluating outputs. This module has activities and readings which provide relevant,
valuable, and appropriate information for the topic at hand. Yet, you are encouraged
to update its activities if necessary.

What I Know

Multiple Choice
Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the correct answer in
the space provided before each number.

____1. People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with object,
machines, tools, plants and animals, or be outdoors.
A. Artistic B. Investigative C. Realistic D. Social
____2. People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, prefer to
carry things out in detail or follow through on others’ instructions.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
____3. People who like to work with people – influencing, persuading, performing,
leading, or managing for organizational goals or for economic gain.
A. Investigative B. Enterprising C. Social D. Realistic
____4. People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve
problems.
A. Conventional B. Enterprising C. Investigative D. Realistic
____5. People who have artistic, innovating, or intuitional abilities, and like to work in
unstructured situations using their imaginations or creativity.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
____6. People who like to work with people – to inform, enlighten, help, train,
develop, or cure them or are skilled with words.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social

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____7. An integrated collection of programs and services intended to develop
student’s core academic, technical and employability skills; provide them with
continuous education, training; and place them in high-demand, high-
opportunity jobs.
A. Career Pathways C. Health and Wellness
B. Guidance and Counseling D. Sports Development
____8. This will help sort out priorities in life. It may include short-term and long-term
goals or life-long aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Philosophy in Life
B. Personal Mission Statement D. Vision and Mission
____9. It covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and
potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality
of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Community Development
B. Educational Plan D. Personal Development
____10. All are external factors influencing career choices except
A. Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health
B. Gender, Interest and Personality Type
C. Life Roles, Skills and Abilities, Culture
D. Previous Experiences and Childhood Fantasies
_____11. Why is personal development an important component of setting career and
life goals?
A. Personal development gives judges how right or wrong your career is.
B. Personal development must be attained fully before setting a career.
C. The insights in personal development discriminates your choice of career.
D. The insights in personal development guides your career decision making.
____12. Which statement is ideal in the process of making your personal mission
statement?
A. All of us make a personal mission statement for the same reason.
B. Personal mission statement clarifies what you want to attain in life.
C. Personal mission statement may not be written.
D. Personal mission statement must have permanent parts.
____13. All elements below may be part of the content of your personal mission
statement, except one.
A. Education and career C. Personal attribute and values
B. Failures and negative experiences D. Sports and community service
____14. All can help you formulate a better personal mission statement, except one.
A. Identify your core values C. Identify your past failures
B. Identify your contributions D. Identify your goals and aspirations
____15. In Holland’s hexagon of job personalities, which is a least compatible work
environment of enterprising personality type?
A. Artistic C. Realistic
B. Investigative D. Social

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Lesson
Career Pathways
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Career decision and selection of career pathways remain to be a big problem
for you, your parents, and other authorities around you due to varied external factors,
work environments and interests affecting you in the process.
In this lesson you will explore all these factor and study the advantages and
disadvantages of different working environments that will help you in your career
planning and development.

What’s In

In the previous lesson, you explored the personal/internal factors and the
career interest areas affecting your career choices, in order to understand further the
concepts of career and life goals which are relatively important in the planning of
career development. To complete the whole process you need to explore the
external factors influencing career choices that may help you in career decision
making, identify the advantages and disadvantages of career options necessary to
prepare for a career plan.

What’s New

Activity 1.1 Essay Writing – A Puzzled Mind …

Directions: Write an essay by answering all the questions below in no particular
order. Create your own title and write your answer in your journal notebook.

What do you want to be when you grow up? What is it important to you?

What affects your choices?

What hinders you to choose
What would you like to do?
What are you interested in? What do you need to know?

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What is It

What influences Your Career Choices?

There are a lot of external factors to consider in career development. As you
go through the different factors below, you will see how they affect or influence your
career choices. You will also identify which among these factors have least and big
impact to your career options.
Skills and Abilities
Skills and abilities are the things you naturally do well, talents and strengths
that you possess. These can include natural capabilities you've always had or
acquired through experience and training.
Interest and Personality Type
Are your interests and personality type compatible with your career choice?
You need to know what makes you happy and be motivated every day. Learning
about your interest and personality leads you to better choose a working
environment that fits you.
Life Roles
You play multiple roles in your lives and that these roles change over the
course of time. How you think about yourself on these roles may influence how you
look at careers in general and how you make choices for yourself.

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Previous Experiences
Having positive experiences and role models working in specific careers may
influence you on the set of careers you consider as options for yourself. If you have
proven success and achieved positive self-esteem in a particular area of work, more
likely, you will have it as a top career option.
Culture
Racial and ethnic background, as well as the culture of your local community,
and extended family, may impact career your decisions. Culture often shapes your
values and expectations as they relate to many parts of your lives, including jobs and
careers.
Gender
How you view yourself as an individual in terms of gender may influence both
the opportunities and obstacles you perceive as you make career decisions. Studies
of gender and career development are ongoing as the roles of men and women in
the workplace evolve.
Social and Economic Conditions
All of your career choices take place within the context of society and the
economy. Changes in the economy and the resulting job market may also affect how
your careers develop.
Childhood Fantasies
What do you want to be when you grow-up? You can remember this question
during your childhood years, and it may have influenced your thoughts about
careers, then, as well as in the present moment.
1. Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader 1st edition,
What Influences Your Career Choice? by Melissa Venable (Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House
Inc., 2016), 104-105.

Activity 1.2 Reflectionnaire

Directions: In your journal notebook, answer the following questions.
1. What realizations do you have after reading the article on the external factors
affecting your career choices?
2. How do you think will this information be relevant to your career decision?

Activity 1.3 The Quick Job-Hunting Map: The Party

Directions: Below is an aerial view (from the floor above) of a room in which a party
is taking place. At this party, people with the same or similar interests have (for some
reason) all gathered in the same corners of the room. After looking over the room,
answer the following questions in your journal notebook.

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 Aerial View of Room
R People who have People who I
athletic or mechanical like to observe,
ability, prefer to work learn, investigate
with object, machines, analyze, evaluate
tools, plants, or animals or solve problems
or be outdoors

C People who like to work People who have artistic, A

with data, have clerical
or numerical ability, prefer to
carry things out in detail
or follow through
on others’ instructions
innovating, or intuitional abilities,
and like to work in unstructured
situations using their imaginations
or creativity

People who like to work People who like to work

with people—influencing with people to
persuading, performing, inform, enlighten
leading, or managing help, train, develop
for organizational or cure them
goals or for or are skilled
E economic gain with words S

1. Which group of people inside the party room would you choose to join and
enjoy for a long time? What are the traits do you like from these people you
want to mingle with?
2. After fifteen minutes of joining the party, everyone in the corner of the room
leaves to join another party, except you. Among the other groups in the corner
of the room who still remain, which of them you want to join as your second
option and why?
3. After another fifteen minutes, everyone in the group leaves again for another
party, except you. Among the other groups who are still there, which of them
you want to join for the last time and why?
4. The top three (3) chosen groups above, resemble of your career paths in the
future, cite the advantages and disadvantages to each of your choice.
5. What were your realizations after the said activity?

Psychologist John Holland classified jobs/careers/work environments into six:

1. Realistic (Do’er) – Prefers physical activities that require skill, strength, and
coordination. Traits include genuine, stable, conforming, and practical. Example
professions include architect, farmer, and engineer.
2. Investigative (Thinker) – Prefers working with the theory and information,
thinking, organizing, and understanding. Traits include: analytical, curious, and
independent. Example professions include lawyer, mathematician, and
professor.

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3. Artistic (Creator) – Prefers creative, original, and unsystematic activities that
allow creative expression. Traits include: imaginative, disorderly, idealistic,
emotional, and impractical. Example professions include: artist, musician, and
writer.
4. Social (Helper) – Prefers activities that involve helping, healing, or developing
others. Traits include cooperative, friendly, sociable, and understanding.
Example professions include counselor, doctor, and teacher.
5. Enterprising (Persuader) – Prefers competitive environments, leadership,
influence, selling, and status. Traits include ambitious, domineering, energetic,
and self-confident. Example professions include Management, Marketing, and
Sales Person.
6. Conventional (Organizer) – Prefers precise, rule-regulated, orderly, and
unambiguous activities. Traits include conforming, efficient, practical,
unimaginative, and inflexible. Example professions include accountant, clerk and
editor.
You are most happy when you are placed in jobs that match your personality.
When personality and occupation are in agreement, employee satisfaction is high
and there will be less turnover.
Holland’s Hexagon of Job Personalities
Holland created a hexagon view to show the relationships of job personality
types.

Realistic Investigative

Conventional Artistic

Enterprising Social

Notice that the job personality types closer to each other are more alike, while
the job personality types further away are least alike. You can see more clearly the
relationships of job personalities according to their placements on the hexagon. For
example, for Realistic and Social job personality types, you will see that they are
virtually the opposite of each other. On the other hand, Social and Artistic are
located besides each other. This shows that realistic and social job personality types
are least alike, while social and artistic job personality types are more alike.

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Activity 1.4 Compatible Work Environments for Your Job Personality
Directions: Based from Holland’s Hexagon of Job Personalities, what work
environments are most compatible, compatible, and least compatible with each of
the personality type? Realistic personality type is set as an example for you to follow.
Answer in your journal notebook.

Most Compatible Least Compatible

Personality Compatible
Work Work
Type Work Environments
Environments Environments
• Investigative
Realistic Realistic Social
• Conventional
Investigative
Artistic
Social
Enterprising
Conventional

2. Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader 1st edition,
Work/Occupational Environments and Interests by John Holland (Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing
House Inc., 2016), 122-126.

What’s More

Activity 1.5 Graphic Organizer

Directions: How does each of the following factors influence or affect your decision
in choosing a career? Copy the format of the graphic organizer to your journal
notebook and fill in the boxes with your answers. Then answer the processing
questions that follow.

Me and

My Career

Abilities Childhood Culture Personality/ Gender Life Roles/ Social/Economic

Skills Fantasies Interests Experience Conditions

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Processing Questions:

1. With the different factors affecting your career choice, which among them
do you think are less important and why?
2. Which of the factors do you consider has great impact to your career
choice?
3. Which of the factors you need more time to work out in order to come up
with a decision on your career options?
4. What are your realizations after doing the activity?

What I Have Learned

Activity 1.6 Career Collage

Directions: Create a Career Collage in a ¼ size illustration board summarizing and
showing the different external factors affecting a career choice and the career
pathways based on Holland’s Six Careers/Jobs/Work Environment.

What I Can Do

Activity 1.7 Documented Interview with Preferred Career Practitioners

Directions: Write your answers in your journal notebook
1. Name three (3) jobs/occupations which you feel you would want to have in the
future. Justify how these occupations fit your job personality and work
environment types.

2. Do background research about the occupations 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;
• Benefits/Advantages of the Job;
• Difficulties and Challenges; and
• Expected Salary of a person occupying the position.

3. Write a narrative report of the interview you have conducted. Identify and explain
your final career option/choice.

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 Additional Activities

Directions: Do the following activities in your journal

Activity 1.8 Make a checklist on your career option

It’s important to be realistic about your expectations about your career option.
Write down all specific actions you will take to accomplish your goals and help you
focus on important matters. Check them off as you complete them, but feel free to
make changes on your career action checklist as needed. Your goals and priorities
may change in the process, and that's perfectly okay.

Activity 1.9 Meet with a Career Advisor

Your advisors can be any person important to you like your parents, teachers,
guidance counselor, and others who may help you make effective career decisions.
Make an appointment with them and talk about your career options, and then
collectively compile them through a reaction paper stressing your career plan and
decision.

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 Lesson
Insights Into One’s Personal
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Development
Personal development plays an important role in setting your career and life
goals. The factors and insights in personal development may guide you in making
important career decisions as an adolescent. It is in this reason that this lesson is
formulated for your guidance and clarification of your personal mission relative to
career options.

What’s In

In the previous lesson, you explored the external factors influencing your
career choices which may help you in career decision making, and identified the
advantages and disadvantages of the different career pathways in order to prepare
for a career plan. In this lesson, you will deepen your career and life goals with some
insights of personal development more particularly with your personal mission
statement, goals and aspirations.

What’s New

Activity 2.1 Personal Mission Statement

Directions: Compose your own personal mission statement with the following parts.
Then answer the questions below for reflection in your journal notebook.

My Personal Mission Statement

Your Name

• Your general statement showing what you value most

• Who inspires you and why
• What qualities you want to have
• What are your goals and aspirations
• What beliefs do you hold
• How you want to be known (legacy)
• And others you might want to be included here

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Reflectionnaire
1. How do you feel in the process of making your personal mission statement?
Have you experienced difficulty in formulating it? Support your answer.
2. Does your personal mission statement truly represent who you are? Why?
3. Is your personal mission statement an important factor in achieving your life
goals and career choices?
4. What are your over-all realizations after the activity?

What is It

What is a Personal Mission Statement?

Writing your personal mission statement is essential. It is more than your
goals and aspirations. As an adolescent, this will help you identify your priorities and
reflect on how you live life leading to the realization of your goals, be it short-term or
long-term. Like a compass, your personal mission statement becomes your guide
and direction which comes from you and not from someone else.
Your personal mission statement shows your awareness and commitment of
your life long journey towards personal development, which is essential in setting
career and life goals.
There’s no right or wrong way to formulate a personal mission statement. As
much as, there are no limits on what should be included as part of it. What is
important is you write it down and be passionate on its realizations.
The content of your personal mission statement may include:
• Education
• Career
• Personal attributes, such as honesty, loyalty and dedication
• Family and personal relationships
• Lifestyle
• Sports
• Faith and Spirituality
• Community service

3. Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader 1st edition, Your
Personal Mission Statement: You’re Never Too Young to Clarify Your Life Goals and Aspirations by Joe Villmow
(Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House Inc., 2016), 130.

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How to Make a Personal Mission Statement?

1. Identify Some Past Successes

These successes can be personal or professional. Remembering past

successes is beneficial because it helps you reconsider the learnings in the past and
adopt the appropriate strategies necessary for success.

2. Identify Your Core Values

This highlights your best personal attributes, values, priorities and other things
you consider important as the heart or motivation of your personal mission, goals
and aspirations.

3. Identify Your Contributions

Make a list of the ways you feel you could make a difference. How do you
believe you can contribute to the society? Identifying your contributions can help you
best understand in what ways you can be of great influence to others.

4. Identify Your Goals

Consider your priorities in life and the goals you have for yourself and for
other people who important to you. Listing your personal goals is valuable in this
step.

Writing your personal mission statement should now be easily

formulated following the four steps.

Why You Need a Personal Mission Statement?

Personal mission statement is an important guide in personal development.

They motivate you to reflect deeply about your life, its purpose, and identify what is
truly important to you. Personal mission statement also inspires you to express your
deepest values and aspirations. It traces your life values and purposes in your mind
so they become a part of you.

Why is a Personal Mission Statement Important?

1. It integrates who you are.

2. It provides focus.
3. It simplifies any decision-making processes.
4. It holds you accountable for your decisions and actions.

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 Writing a personal mission statement gives you sense of direction and
responsibility. Personal mission statement allows you to get to know yourself better
and discover your sense of purpose in life.

4. Rhett Power, “4 Reasons Why You Need a Personal Mission Statement,” February 19, 2016,
https://www.inc.com/rhett-power/4-reasons-why-you-need-a-personal-mission-statement.html

What’s More

Activity 2.2 Enhanced Personal Mission Statement

Directions: With the use of index card finalize your personal mission statement. It
may include the following information:
Card 1. Education: What do you see yourself accomplishing in the area of your
academic/education?
Card 2. Career: What kind of career are you seeing yourself doing with passion?
How would you know that you are successful in this career?
Card 3. Personal Attributes: What are the values, skills and personal attributes you
wish to develop in you? How would you like to be seen as a person?
Card 4. Family and Personal Relationships: How do you see the quality of your
family and personal life? What are the things that you would like to do or provide for
them?
Card 5. How you want to live your life: What kind of lifestyle you aspire to have?
Card 6. Faith and Spirituality: How do you see your faith growing in the years to
come? How do you intend to make sure that you will be able to deepen your faith
and spiritual life?
Card 7. Community Service: How do you intend to give back or “pay it forward” to
your community? What do you envision to be your contribution to the community?
Card 8. Free Card: Write anything else that you feel would be relevant and part of
your personal mission in life.

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 What I Have Learned

Activity 2.3 My Generalization

Directions: Answer the following questions in your journal notebook
1. What is a personal mission statement? Cite its possible elements and briefly
describe each element.
2. How do you write your personal mission statement? What are the things you
need to consider?
3. How important is your personal mission statement to your personal and
career development? Discuss comprehensively

What I Can Do

Activity 2.4 Bucket List

Directions: Based from your Personal Mission Statement, make a list (as many as
you can) of the things you want to accomplish in your life towards the full realization
of your personal/career development. Arrange them according to your priority and
write your insights and reflections on how important these lists to actualize your
personal mission statement. Copy the format below and accomplish the task in your
journal notebook.

1. _____________________
2. ____________________
3. ____________________
4. ___________________
5. __________________
6. __________________
7. _________________
8. ________________
9. _______________
10. _____________

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My Insights and Reflections:
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___________________________________________________________________
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Additional Activities

Activity 2.5 Personal Development: Hindsight and Foresight

Direction: Write an essay on your journey through this course on Personal
Development. How have you changed since the beginning of this semester? What
have you learned about yourself? What activities and reading were the most useful
to you? What can you do in order to continue your personal development after this
course?

Assessment

Multiple Choice
Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the correct answer in
the space provided before each number.

____1. People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with object,
machines, tools, plants and animals, or be outdoors.
A. Artistic B. Investigative C. Realistic D. Social
____2. People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, prefer to
carry things out in detail or follow through on others’ instructions.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
____3. People who like to work with people – influencing, persuading, performing,
leading, or managing for organizational goals or for economic gain.
A. Investigative B. Enterprising C. Social D. Realistic
____4. People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve
problems.
A. Conventional B. Enterprising C. Investigative D. Realistic
____5. People who have artistic, innovating, or intuitional abilities, and like to work in
unstructured situations using their imaginations or creativity.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social

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____6. People who like to work with people – to inform, enlighten, help, train,
develop, or cure them or are skilled with words.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
____7. An integrated collection of programs and services intended to develop
student’s core academic, technical and employability skills; provide them with
continuous education, training; and place them in high-demand, high-
opportunity jobs.
A. Career Pathways C. Health and Wellness
B. Guidance and Counseling D. Sports Development
____8. This will help sort out priorities in life. It may include short-term and long-term
goals or life-long aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Philosophy in Life
B. Personal Mission Statement D. Vision and Mission
____9. It covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and
potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality
of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Community Development
B. Educational Plan D. Personal Development
____10. All are external factors influencing career choices except
A. Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health
B. Gender, Interest and Personality Type
C. Life Roles, Skills and Abilities, Culture
D. Previous Experiences and Childhood Fantasies

_____11. Why is personal development an important component of setting career and

life goals?
A. Personal development gives judges how right or wrong your career is.
B. Personal development must be attained fully before setting a career.
C. The insights in personal development discriminates your choice of career.
D. The insights in personal development guides your career decision making.
____12. Which statement is ideal in the process of making your personal mission
statement?
A. All of us make a personal mission statement for the same reason.
B. Personal mission statement clarifies what you want to attain in life.
C. Personal mission statement may not be written.
D. Personal mission statement must have permanent parts.
____13. All elements below may be part of the content of your personal mission
statement, except one.
A. Education and career C. Personal attribute and values
B. Failures and negative experiences D. Sports and community service
____14. All can help you formulate a better personal mission statement, except one.
A. Identify your core values C. Identify your past failures
B. Identify your contributions D. Identify your goals and aspirations
____15. In Holland’s hexagon of job personalities, which is a least compatible work
environment of enterprising personality type?
A. Artistic C. Realistic
B. Investigative D. Social

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Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development

Reader 1st edition. What Influences Your Career Choice,? by Melissa
Venable. Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House Inc., 2016.

Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development

Reader 1st edition. Work/Occupational Environments and Interests, by John
Holland. Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House Inc., 2016.

Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development

Reader 1st edition. Your Personal Mission Statement: You’re Never Too
Young to Clarify Your Life Goals and Aspirations, by Joe Villmow. Quezon
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Power, Rhett. “4 Reasons Why You Need a Personal Mission Statement.” February
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personal-mission-statement.html

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Answer Key of Pre-Test/ Post-Test

Module 8: Career Pathways and Insights Into One’s Personal Development

1. C 6. D 11. D
2. B 7. A 12. B
3. B 8. C 13. B
4. C 9. D 14. C
5. A 10. A 15. B

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