Module 1

Grade 11 Career Guidance Module

OPENING PRAYER
How do you feel today?
CAREER PATHS
 Let us reflect!

1. What does the video tell  you?

2. Can you identify the different
kinds of profession/job cited in the
video?
3. What does it require for each
profession/job to perform his/her
work successfully?
 I. Objectives
At the end of this module, the students are
expected to:

a.       enumerate the different professions

and life choices;

b.      explain the different factors affecting

the choices in life and profession; and

c.       appreciate the factors in choosing a

profession.
 Module 1
Road to the
Right Choice
 IV. Lecturette

Factors Affecting
Career and Life
Options
 Opening Reflection

What influences your

choice of Senior High
School Track and
Strand?
Life is a choice. Our choices are
influenced by different factors -
personal, family, and social.
These influences are unique to
you and to your situation.
 Career and Life Choices

Career and Life Choices

PERSONAL
SOCIAL
•Skills and Abilities FAMILY
•Interests and Influence of Friends
Personality Types Parental Influence and Peers
•Life Roles
Beliefs and Traditions Influence of Media/
* Previous Technology
Experiences Financial Resources
 * Childhood Fantasies Industry Demands and
  Expectations
Career and Life Choices

PERSONAL
 Career and Life Choices
Skills and Abilities
• Are you aware of
your skills and
abilities?
• When individuals are
in jobs best suited to
their abilities they
perform best and
their productivity is
highest.
 Career and Life Choices
Interest and Personality Type
• Holland's Career Typology Do you know your interest
and personality types?
• most people are one of six
personality types: Realistic,
Investigative, Artistic, Social,
Enterprising, and Conventional.

• Knowing your personality will

help you understand yourself.
It matters that your
personality fits your career
choice.
 Career and Life Choices
Previous Did you think of pursuing a task which
you have been successful in the past?
Experiences
• One aspect of Social
Cognitive Career
Theory addresses
the fact that we are
likely to consider
continuing a
particular task if we
have had a positive
experience doing it.
 Career and Life Choices
Childhood Fantasies
• What do you want to be when
• You may remember you grow-up?
this question from
your childhood, and it
may have helped
shape how you
thought about
careers then, as well
as later in life.
Career and Life Choices
FAMILY
 Career and Life Choices
“The matter of choosing a career in
the Philippine setting is clearly a
family affair.” - (Clemena, 2002)
 Career and Life Choices
Parental Influence
Many children grow up
idealizing the professions
of their parents. How many
percent of your
career decision
is influenced by
your parents?
 Career and Life Choices
Financial Resources
Limited financial
resources of the family
When your family
has limited
financial resources,
will you insist in
pursuing medicine?
 Career and Life Choices
Family Beliefs and Traditions
The beliefs and
traditions should not
be set aside for in one
way or another it
could play a vital role
that would somehow
relevant in making a
choice.
Career and Life Choices

SOCIAL
 Career and Life Choices
Influence of Media/Technology
• Media
influence
may have
positive and
negative
effects.  
 Career and Life
  Choices
Influence of Friends and Peers
• Peer pressure is • Who among you will
common among choose the same course
as their friends?
learners.
 Career and Life Choices
Industry Demands and Expectations
• considering the demands and
expectations of the industries
before coming up with their
career decisions

Changes in the economy

and resulting job market
may also affect how their
careers develop.  
Career and Life Choices
As senior high school
learner, are you
aware of the different
professions and life
choices?

Do you know where

to go after senior high
school?
 Career and Life Choices
Senior High School Curriculum Exits:
•  Employment

• Middle Level Skills

Development

• Entrepreneurship

• Higher Education
Career and Life Choices
Regulated Professions
Career and Life Choices
Medical and Health
 Career and Life Choices
Medical and Health
• Nursing
• Medicine
• Medical Technology
• Radiology Technology
• Nutrition
• Pharmacy
• Optometry
 Career and Life Choices
Medical and Health
• Dentistry
• Respiratory Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Midwifery
• Veterinary Medicine
 Career and Life Choices
Engineering
 Career and Life Choices
Engineering Profession Cluster
• Aeronautical
• Agricultural
• Chemical
• Civil
• Electrical
• Electronics
• Geodetic
 Career and Life Choices
Engineering Profession Cluster
• Mechanical
• Metallurgical
• Mining
• Naval Architecture
• Marine
• Sanitary
Career and Life Choices
Business, Education and Social
Work Professions Cluster
 Career and Life Choices
Business, Education and Social Work
Professions Cluster
• Accountancy
• Criminology
• Customs Broker
• Guidance and Counseling
• Librarians
• Marine Deck Officers
 Career and Life Choices
Business, Education and Social
Work Professions Cluster
• Marine Engine Officers
• Professional Teachers
• Psychology
• Real Estate Service
• Social Workers
 Career and Life Choices
Technology Cluster
 Career and Life Choices
Technology Cluster
• Agriculture
• Architecture
• Chemistry
• Environmental Planning
• Fisheries
 Career and Life Choices
Technology Cluster
• Foresters
• Geology
• Interior Design
• Landscape Architecture
• Master Plumbers
 Career and Life Choices
Processing Questions
• Given the different career and life choices
through the senior high school curriculum exits
and clusters of regulated professions, were you
able to decide where to go after senior high
school?

• What is the importance of considering the

different factors in choosing your
profession/vocation?
V. Application (5 minutes)
Activity 1

REASONS
BEHIND MY
CHOICES
Activity: REASONS BEHIND MY CHOICES

Directions: Draw shapes inside the big circle

to represent the factors which influenced you
in choosing your profession/ vocation. The
size of each shape may vary according to the
degree of its influence in your career
decision-making.

-Family - Personal - Social

Activity: REASONS BEHIND MY CHOICES
The teacher may ask some students to share
and discuss their output. Then, students will
take a picture of themself holding their output
and submit it on the google drive following the
file name format below.

File name format: LastName,FirstName

Google drive link: https://bit.ly/CGO-11
Sample
Career and Life Choices
“Choose a job you
love and you will
never have to
work a day in
your life.” -
Confucius
DOCUMENTATION TIME!
CLOSING PRAYER