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Internal Factors:
1. Self-concept or self-identity
There is a need to know and
understand what you want to do or not
want to do.
Your values will also play a role in
your career choice.
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Internal Factors:
2. Interest and Personal Type /
Personal Preferences
A classification system that matches
personality characteristics and
personal preferences to job
characteristics.
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Internal
3. Motivation
Factors:
The drive to fulfill one’s fullest
potentials is the best motivation
desire to improve the quality of their
family’s lives.
A person WITHOUT any motivation
will end up wasting a life of unfulfilled
potentials. 20
Internal Factors:
4. Self confidence
keep his eyes on his goals, and
declare to the world, the universe
rather, that he can do it and will
succeed in the pursuit of his
dreams.
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Internal Factors:
5. Personal Skills and Abilities
Considering your skills and abilities and how they may fit
a particular occupation comes out of the earliest career
development fields.
Ask yourself what you like and enjoy doing.
The skill that you have may be hidden because some
people around you do not accept it or you may be afraid to
show it because you might be misjudged.
Have the courage to stand up and take the relevant course that
will hone your skills.
Be the master of your own destiny.
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Internal Factors:
8. Emotional Consideration
Check yourself when you are
deciding on what course to take.
It is always best to be levelheaded
and calm when making these life-
directing decisions.
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Internal Factors:
9. Previous Experiences
Having positive experiences and role
models working in specific careers may
influence the set of careers we consider
as options for ourselves.
focus on areas in which we have had
proven success and achieved positive self-
esteem. 24
Internal Factors:
10. Childhood Fantasies
What do you want to be when you
grow up? You may remember this
question from your childhood, and it may
have helped shape how you
thought about careers then, as well as
later in life.
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Internal Factors:
11. Self-sabotaging Thoughts
These are thoughts that deter a person
from developing a healthy and wholesome
self-concept.
Knowing one’s strengths and
weaknesses will put a person’s feet on the
ground and make him realistic about his
capabilities and limitations
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Internal Factors:
12. Life Roles
We play multiple roles in our lives wherein
these roles change over the course of our lives.
How we think about ourselves in these
roles, their requirements of them, and the
external forces that affect them, may influence
how we look at careers in general and how we
make choices for ourselves.
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external Factors:
▸ 1. Parental Preferences
▸ there will be no friction between you and
your parents if your parents have some idea
of what course you should take.
▸ if what they think does not match with your
own choice, then you can ask your parents
for their reasons.
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external Factors:
▸ 2. Family Considerations
▸ You might have a sibling who
wants to take up the same
course you chose or a sibling
who wants to go to another
school, 29
external Factors:
3. Financial Constraints
▸ This would always be the
major consideration among
families especially if your
siblings are already in college.
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external Factors:
3. Financial Constraints
▸ Your parents’ financial standing is a
determinant of whether you will even go to
college or if the course of your choice might be
feasible for them to support you.
▸ If this is the case, try looking for some
scholarships to aid in pursuing your dreams.
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external Factors:
▸ 4. Culture
▸ may impact career decisions.
▸ Our culture often shapes our values
and expectations as they relate to many
parts of our lives, including jobs and
careers.
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external Factors:
▸ 5. School Location
▸ If your family’s financial
capability is not a problem, then
there is the option to rent a
boarding room somewhere nearby
your school of choice.
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external Factors:
▸ 6. Peer pressure
▸ Your friends may exert some pressure on
you to take up a course so that you can be
together even in college.
▸ But, at the end of the day, you decide
what is best for you.
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external Factors:
7. Gender Bias
▸ How we view ourselves as
individuals may influence both the
opportunities and barriers we
perceive as we make career
decisions. 35
external Factors:
▸ 8. Language Limitation
▸ Language can be learned, so
if you have this challenge
before you, do not be
discouraged
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external Factors:
9. Academic Performance
10. Job market preference (Immediate
Employment)
▸ Often, the first job may not be the one’s
first choice, but to gain experience and
immediate employment.
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external Factors:
▸ 11. Social and Economic
Conditions
▸ All of our career choices take
place within the context of
society and the economy.
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▸Activity 1:
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Personality
Test.
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▸ This is a personality test, it will help
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you understand why you act the way
that you do and how your personality
is structured. In the table below, mark
how muchyou agree with the
statement on the scale of 1-5, where:
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▸1 Disagree
▸2 Slightly disagree
▸3 Neutral
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▸4 Slightly agree
▸5 Agree 41