Persons

and
Career
By: Rimalyn R. Pagayanan, RPm
 Job
• The activities or tasks that people do
whether they are paid or not
_________________________
• Specific duties and responsibility that
a person should do in the
organization
 Career

• A life-long vocation that is planned

and follows a logical progression of
jobs within the chosen profession
__________________________
• Profession that an individual pursue in
their lifetime, even though it may
change
 Career Growth
or
Development
• A process through which your distinct
characteristics for work are formed

• The goal is to continuously develop the person

and be employed after completion of an
academic training or formal education

• Aimed at achieving a fit between the person’s

characteristics and work
 Personal
Mission
Statement
• The reason that you are doing all the things
you do everyday
• Include purpose and principles in life
• Know what you want in life and how you
intend to do or accomplish your goals
– What do I want from life?
– Where do I want to go?
– What do I believe or value in life?
– How do I get there?
 Steps to
Achieve
your Goals
• Define your goals
– Clear definition of what you would like to
happen in your life
– Be committed toward its realization
– SMART goal (specific, measurable, attainable,
relevant and time bound)
• Set a target date
– Deadlines should be realistic
 Steps to
Achieve
your Goals
• Identify ways on how to reach your goals
– Specific action plans you need to take to
achieve your plans
– Include resources or support
• Identify your “sign post”
– Include your smaller goals within your larger goals
 Personal
Factors
Influencing
Career Choices
• Personality
• Values
• Interest
• Skills
• Attitudes
 Personal
Factors
Influencing
• Personality Career Choices
– Characteristics that make us unique or different from
others
– Affect the way you do your work
– Basic dimensions
• Extraversion or introversion
– The way people deal with their environment or how they direct their
energy
• Sensing or intuitive
– How we interpret the information we receive
• Thinking or feeling
– How one decide
• Judging or perceiving
– The way one makes decision
 Personal
Factors
Influencing
Career Choices
• Values
– Principles or standards that guide you in
making choices and decisions in life
– What is acceptable to you may not be
acceptable for others because of your value
system
– Identifying the factors you consider important
 Personal
Factors
Influencing
Career Choices
• Interests
– Activities that you enjoy doing
– Includes likes or dislikes, or the things that motivate
you
– When your work is aligned with your interests, you
will find your work exciting and challenging
 Personal Factors
Influencing
Career Choices
• Skills
– Abilities or proficiencies that have been developed through
training or formal education
– May be grouped as technical skills or sift skills
– Technical skills
• Knowledge of theories and your capability to put into practice the
theories that you learned
• Your capacity to perform specific and operational tasks related to a job
– Soft skills or functional skills
• Proficiencies that enable you to stand out with employers when you apply
for work or change your career
• Move flexible at different stages of your career
• Ex: communication skills, teamwork, organization, problem-solving, writing,
planning
 Personal
Factors
Influencing
Career Choices
• Attitudes
– How you view situations or things around you
– Predisposition or the tendency to act or behave
in a certain way
– 3 components
• Cognition
• Affects
• Behavior
 Personality
Traits and
Career Options
• Based on John Holland’s six personality
types:
o Realistic Type
o Investigative Type
o Artistic Type
o Social Type
o Enterprising Type
o Conventional Type
 Personality
Traits and
Career Options
• Realistic Type
– Enjoy activities where they can create and
manipulate things by using their hands
– Aircraft control, mechanics, surveying, farming,
electrical and electronic activities
– Persistent, practical, genuine, conforming,
hardheaded, shy and frank
 Personality
Traits and
Career Options
• Investigative Type
– Prefer occupations that focus on scientific
endeavors
– Biologist, chemist, physicist, medical
technologist, surgeon, research analyst,
mathematician, or statistician
– Analytical, independent, introvert, rational,
methodical, curious, and reserved.
 Personality
Traits and
Career Options
• Artistic Type
– Prefer activities that are free, unsystematic, and
creative.
– Express freedom and originality
– Stage designer, orchestra member, composer,
musician, interior designer, writer, fashion model,
etc.
– Imaginative, emotional, nonconforming,
expressive, independent, open, idealistic and
original
 Personality
Traits and
Career Options
• Social Type
– Help others to develop, and be enlightened
– Concerned about the welfare of others and are
competent in dealing with people
– Teacher, counselor, social worker, trainer,
psychologist, therapist, coordinator, librarian
and foreign service officer
– Convincing, responsible, patient, helpful,
understanding, cooperative, friendly, kind, and
sympathetic
 Personality
Traits and
Career Options
• Enterprising Type
– Prefer activities that influence or convince others to
achieve organization and economic growth
– Allows them to acquire leadership, interpersonal, and
persuasive skills
– Businessman, salesman, sports promoter, television or
radio announcer, insurance manager, human resource
officer, banker, lawyer, etc.
– Enthusiastic, energetic, pleasure-seeking, domineering,
acquisitive, ambitious, extrovert, impulsive, self-
confident, adventurous, and popular
 Personality
Traits and
Career Options
• Conventional Type
– Structured and orderly
– Bookkeeper, accountant, secretary, data
processing worker, proofreader, financial
analyst, banker, auditor, library assistant, and
credit manager
– Thrifty, efficient, careful, orderly, conforming,
inhibited, conscientious, and obedient.