Homeroom Guidance Grade 12 Quarter 2- Week 4: THE LIFE I WANT TO LIVE AS AN ADULT

MULTIPLE CAREER DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS TOOLKIT

Keep On Track

It is important to work on something that makes you feel happy and

productive.

Making a career decision is not an easy task for your students. Gaining enough

knowledge and information about their strengths and weaknesses will help

them find a better career opportunity.

In this session, your students will identify possible career options based on

their interests, talents, and values. Students will also gain information about

the different Senior High School tracks and their corresponding aptitude

requirements.

Activity Guide:

Students may also refer to Tool 01: The Life I Want to Live to further assist them in making their choices

Background

Career planning is a lifelong process that focuses on making decisions to help you manage your future work and
personal life in general. This means that planning your career is not separate from planning the rest of your life. This
worksheet aims to help you set your future career directions anchored on the things that you value such as personal
interests, families, and dream jobs.

What Is Career Planning?

Career planning is a process for:
 Identifying what you are good at
 Knowing how your skills, talents, values, and interests translate into possible jobs or careers
 Matching your skills, etc. to existing jobs or careers
 Matching your career goals to your financial needs
 Matching your career goals to your educational needs
 Making good decisions for yourself
 Finding ways to meet your educational and financial needs on your schedule
 It is important to understand how your individual cultural context influences your worldview. Each of us has an
individual worldview composing our attitudes, values, opinions, and beliefs about how things work in the world.
 Your Cultural Context surrounds the entire career planning process, and includes your cultural heritage and life
experiences.
The Career Planning Process Itself Has Three Main Components:
1. Self-exploration is the process of examining your:
 Skills
 Values
 Experience
 Interests
 Education
2. Occupational Exploration includes activities such as:
 Researching occupational and job profiles
 Conducting informational interviews
 Attending career and job fairs
 Gathering labor-market information
3. Educational Planning and Career Planning consists of:
 Decision making
 Goal setting
 Problem solving
 Action planning

Why do career planning?

It is well established that most jobs that pay family-sustaining wages require some post-secondary education (that is,
education beyond the high school level). By taking the time to plan for your career now, you increase the chances of
completing your education and getting the job you want.

What’s the difference between a job and a career?

A job is the occupation that you have at any given point in time. A career refers to your working life over time and could
include a single job that you stay in for many years, or a series of successive jobs within the same field. For example, you
may decide to become a seventh-grade math teacher and stay in that job for 20 or 30 years or more, all the while
gathering experience and additional training. In this case, you could say that your job was a math teacher, and that you
also have a career as a math teacher. Or, you may decide simply that you want a career in health care. You might
choose to begin that career as a certified nursing aide and then, with additional education, become a surgical
technologist and then a registered nurse. It’s important to think about both your short-term and long-term goals.

Why career planning is important?

A solid career plan is important in that it can provide a roadmap for your future. This, in turn, helps you make informed
choices about your current job situation as well as future career moves. A broader career plan is also important when it
comes to helping you stay inspired.

Activity: Direction

1. Read each question carefully. In case there are some questions or clarifications, you may consult your teacher for
further explanation.
2. Write your answers on a clean sheet of paper.
3. Share your worksheet with your peers during the group interaction.

Processing questions:

1.What is career planning and why is it important to me as a student?

2. Why is career planning not a one-time decision but a series of decisions I make?
3. What should I consider in planning for my future career?
4. What are the bases of a career planning journey?