Multiple Career Development Pathways Toolkit

INTRODUCTION: Starting a Career Planning Journey

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.
Target Outcome: Students will recognize the importance of having a personal vision in career planning.
 TOOL 01: The Life I Want to Live as an Adult
My Career Planning Journey
 Setting
1. Where do I like to live? ANSWER:

2. Do I prefer to stay in one place or would I like to move to a new location? ANSWER:

 Work
1. What type of work would I like to do? ANSWER:

2. What is my ideal work environment? ANSWER:

3. What business do I plan to start? ANSWER:

 Relationships
1. Who would I like to spend time with? Family? Friends? Or, do I prefer to spend more time by myself?
ANSWER:

2. What types of activities do I enjoy doing with the people in my life? ANSWER:

 Immediate Goals (Next 1-3 Years)

1. What do I want to do within the next one to three years? ANSWER:

 Long-Term Goals (After High School)

1. What are my plans after high school? ANSWER:

2. What kind of career would I like to pursue? ANSWER:

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

2. Why is career planning not a one-time decision but a series of decisions I make? ANSWER:

3. What should I consider in planning for my future career? ANSWER:

4. What are the bases of a career planning journey? ANSWER:

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 ACTIVITY 01: Enhancing Self-Awareness
The initial step in career planning is knowing yourselves. It is important to know your strengths and weaknesses in
the process of making career choices and decisions. It is significant to understand all factors that make you unique. These
will help you choose a career that suits your own talents, attributes, and interests.
Target Outcome: Students will discover their interests, talents, skills, and values.
 TOOL 02: Self-Assessment of Interests and Talents
Directions: Many people say that you tend to be good at what interests you. Look back at your classroom experiences and
activities. Recall the subject areas that caught your interest and list down remarkable achievements related to these subject
areas.
 Grade 7
1. Which subject/s are you interested in? What activities or projects in the said subject/s have you accomplished?
ANSWER:

2. In which subject/s did you perform best? ANSWER:

3. What are your talent/s? In which subject/s were you able to perform these talents? ANSWER:

 GRADE 8
1. Which subject/s are you interested in? What activities or projects in the said subject/s have you accomplished?
ANSWER:

2. In which subject/s did you perform best? ANSWER:

3. What are your talent/s? In which subject/s were you able to perform these talents? ANSWER:

 GRADE 9
1. Which subject/s are you interested in? What activities or projects in the said subject/s have you accomplished?
ANSWER:

2. In which subject/s did you perform best? ANSWER:

3. What are your talent/s? In which subject/s were you able to perform these talents? ANSWER:

 GRADE 10
1. Which subject/s are you interested in? What activities or projects in the said subject/s have you accomplished?
ANSWER:

2. In which subject/s did you perform best? ANSWER:

3. What are your talent/s? In which subject/s were you able to perform these talents? ANSWER:

 TOOL 03: Personal Work Values and Competencies

Directions: The following is a list of work values and competencies that many people have identified as important for them
in their careers, in business, and in the workplace. A competency is the capability to apply or use a set of related
knowledge, skills, and abilities required to successfully perform a job.
As you begin to explore your own personal values, reflect and select by shading the thumbs up icon of the
values and competencies that you think you already possess.

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Reflection Guide:
1. Look at the list of work values and competencies that you already possess.
2. Think of times and situations when you have applied these work values and competencies.
3. Which among the items you chose are connected to your career plans? ANSWER:

4. What other values not listed here do you think are essential to you and your career plans? These can help you in making
good career decisions. ANSWER:

 TOOL 04: Rate Your Skills

(DO THIS) Directions: The skills listed in this tool are the progressive life skills needed in pursuing any field or career. Rate
your skills level using the following scale:
Reflection Guide: Look at the skills that you
have rated yourself highly (e.g., 3 or 4). Think of
times and situations when you have used these
skills. These can help you in making good career
decisions.

WRITTEN VERBAL PROBLEM SOLVING TEAM WORK ANALYTICAL ABILITY

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and convey information convey message clearly technique or logic to common goal. complex information.
to different readers. in a conversation or to solve a problem.
a larger audience.

NEGOTIATING PERSUADING SELF-MOTIVATION TIME MANAGEMENT FLEXIBILITY

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