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Personal
Development
Quarter 2 – Module 6:
Career Development Concepts
and Factors Influencing Career
Choices

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 SECOND QUARTER
MODULE 6 - WEEK 6
CAREER DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING CAREER
CHOICES

Content Standard : The learners demonstrate an understanding of the

concepts of career development and, life goals, and
personal factors influencing career choices and
external factors.
Performance Standard : The learner shall be able to set a personal career goal
based on the results of self-assessment of various
personal and external factors.
Learning Outcomes : Upon completion of the module, the student is
(Syllabus) expected to establish self-concept base on personality
test and skills assessment and identity career options
based on different factors.
Competencies : 1.explain that understanding different factors, career
(MELC) development concepts and personal life goals
influence career planning and decision-making
2. identify career options based on different factors,
career development concepts and personal life’s goals
Competency Code : EsP-PD11/12PC-IIf-12.1, EsP-PD11/12PC-IIf-12.2

What I Know

This test would like to assess your prior knowledge, please answer honestly.
Write the letter of your answer in any size of paper or in your notebook.
1. The process of choosing a career, improving your skills, and advancing a long
a career path.
A. Career Development C. Career Wheel
B. Career Satisfaction D. Career Shift
2. Is defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a person
throughout a lifetime.
A. Advocacy B. Career C. Life-goals D. Professionalism
3. It means a position an individual holds during specific duties.
A. Function B. Job C. Occupation D. Vocation

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4. It is defined as the similar work for which people have similar responsibilities
and for which they develop a common set of skills and knowledge.
A. Job B. Position C. Occupation D. Role
5. In Super’s life and career developmental stage, most of you whose age ranges
from 15-24 belongs to exploratory stage and possess characteristics like,
A. "Trying out" through classes, work, hobbies
B. Making tentative choices
C. Skill development
D. All of the above
6. Developmental tasks that you are supposed to establish at this stage of your
life now in according to Super’s developmental tasks.
A. Looking for job vacancies in the market
B. Seeking more opportunities for earning
C. Getting started in a chosen field
D. Giving less time to hobbies
7. Describe your unique characteristics that will clearly and accurately enhance
your self-understanding and useful in making career development plans.
A. Interest B. Skills C. Values D. All of the above
8. In the Philippines, our collectivist orientation makes our _________ a strong
influence in our career decisions.
A. gender B. family C. life roles D. skills and abilities
9. To limit the stress caused by financial constraints, before choosing a career
one should look at his or her ____________________.
A. cultural background C. family history
B. social and economic conditions D. money management technique
10. Importance of knowing career development concept to you as student.
A. Make you explore the different adventures of life.
B. Make you realize how scary and stress provoking life is.
C. Let you feel the tedious and tiresome process of career planning.
D. Allows you to understand where you are and where you want to be.

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 What I Need to Know

As an adolescent you are now at the stage where you find that you have
specific interests and aptitudes. You are aware of your inclinations to perform and
learn about some subjects more than others. Some of you may had tried out jobs in
your community. All of those are expected hence, at this stage you had started to
explore a specific career that is aligned to your life goals.
Before we begin our lesson, please be reminded of the learning objectives of
this module:
▪ explain that understanding different factors, career development concepts and
personal life goals influence career planning and decision-making
▪ identify career options based on different factors, career developments
concepts and personal life goals.

What’s In

Is your answer still the same when you will be asked what you will be when
you grow up?
Perhaps, at this moment you are already starting to visualize deep inside you
what you will be doing in life years later. Can you share it, by doing the activity
below? Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper following the graphic organizer
given.
ACTIVITY 1: THEN AND NOW

Then… Now…

ME

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Process Questions
1. Take a looked at your answer, is there a difference in your career choice then
and now?
2. What do you think are the factors that lead to the change? If it is still the
same, what are the factors that allowed it to stay that way?
3. Do you think you can make your career choice today a reality? If yes, how
can you make it real? If not, state the reason and how and you can possibly
make it come true?

What’s New

ACTIVITY 2: AGREE / DISAGREE

Put a check mark on the column if you agree to the statement and under column
if you disagree.

Ten-Point Trigger Statements on Career Planning

1. Arts/humanities majors usually are unemployable after college.

2. Selecting what’s ‘hot’ at the moment is safe.

3. Career assessment/counselors will not be of any use for me.

4. If X is happy in a particular field, I will be happy too.

5. If I wait long enough, luck will eventually bring me to the right
career.
6. Making a lot of money will make me happy.

7. Once I choose a career, I'll be stuck in it forever.

8. If I change careers my skills will be wasted.

9. I will decide after the results are out.

10. I love this hobby, but I don't think I can make money out of it.

Process Questions:
1. Which statement is the hardest to decide? Why?
2. Is there someone or something that influenced your decisions? Explain your
answer.

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 What is It

Graduation is fast approaching, and college life is waving at you, are you
excited to unfold another chapter of your life now? I know you are... Around the
world, students like you at this stage are now preparing for a bigger and wider world
after high school. One way to do it, is to establish an understanding of career
development concepts, life goals and factors influencing career choices to be able to
set your own personal career plan.
Career Development is the Core values are a set of
fundamental beliefs, ideals or
process of choosing a career,
practices that inform how you
improving your skills, and conduct your life, both personally
advancing along a career path and professionally. You need to have
a good understanding of yourself
(McKay, 2020). It is a lifelong
and your values to readily analyze
process of learning and decision- your current or future situations.
making that brings you closer to Your values give you a sense of
your ideal job, skillset, and purpose and are guideposts to what
fits you best.
lifestyle. Knowing career
Making Career Decision starts with
development concept is important
knowing what is important to you
to you as students, since it will
(your values), what you enjoy (your
allow you to understand
interests), and what you do well (your
yourselves and the opportunities
skills). The pyramid below is a simple
in both the world and world of
way to remember what is important
work so that when presented with
in making career decisions.
opportunities you are prepared to
make decisions about your future.
Thinking
About My
Life goals are what we want to Decision Making

achieve, and they are much more

Knowing How I Make
meaningful than just ‘what we Decisions

need to accomplish to survive’. Knowing About Knowing About

Unlike daily routines or short-term Myself Options

objectives, they drive our behaviors

What’s Involved in a Career Choice
over the long run. Adapted from https://career.fsu.edu/students/plan-your-career/career-decision-
making

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 Reflect on the following questions
Write your answer in a separate paper.
1. What is important to you at this moment in your life now?
2. What are your field of interests? Are they aligned to your skills and abilities?
3. How can understanding the concepts of career and life goals help you in
planning your career?

Career is defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a person

throughout a lifetime (Super, 1980). Your career basically dictates a lot of things in
your life - it can determine the kind of lifestyle that you will be leading; the quality
of relationships that you have with people around you like your family and friends,
the kind of balance you will be able to keep with your life and your responsibilities.
There are two other concepts that is often associated to the concept of career:

Job ▪
is a position an individual Occupation is defined as the similar work for

holds during specific duties, for which people have similar responsibilities and

example if you would look closely to for which they develop a common set of skills
a job of a lawyer you can say that a and knowledge, for example people who are in

lawyer's job is working as an the mental health occupation would include

associate in the X Law Firm psychologists, clinical psychologists,

counselors, and psychiatrists
Source: Department of Education Personal Development Module page 103)

Super’s Career Development Theory

Donald Super built his developmental theory on the idea that your view of yourself
changes. Time and experience help shape the way a person values their career and
the goals they set. This theory defines a “career” as the entire lifetime of a person.
Table 1 Super Five Life and Career Development Stages
Stages Characteristics Tasks
Growth Development of self-concept, attitudes, Developing a realistic
(Birth – 14) needs and general world of work self-concept
Exploration "Trying out" through classes, work Learning more about
(15-24) hobbies. Tentative choice and skill opportunities
development
Establishment Entry-level skill building and Getting started in a
(25-44) stabilization through work experience chosen field
Maintenance Continual adjustment process to Verifying current
(45-64) improve position occupational choice
Decline Reduced output, prepare for Giving less time to
(65+) retirement hobbies
Source: http://www.careers.govt.nz/practitioners/career-practice/career-theory-models/supers-theory/ (Retrieved from: Department of Education
Personal Development Module page 107)

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Factors Influencing Career Choice
Important part of the development process is examining the different factors
that will play an impact on one’s career choice.

Interest and Personality Type

Skills and Abilities Life Roles

Childhood Fantasies Influence Previous Experiences

Factors

Gender Culture

Social and Economic Conditions

Source: Department of Education Personal Development Module page 104-
107)

Process Questions
From the graphic organizer above, answer the following questions. Write your answer
in a separate paper.
1. How can your skills and abilities, interest and personality type boost your
career decision making?
2. Do childhood fantasies, life roles and previous experiences affects one’s career
choice? In what possible means?
3. In the world where gender equality is given importance, do you still believe that
your gender be given consideration in choosing your career? Why?
4. In what way culture influence your choice of career?
5. One of the major considerations in deciding for a college course is social and
economic conditions, how will these factors impact your career decisions?

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 What’s More

Copy the given template below and exercise your decision making in the given
situations.
ACTIVITY 3: ME AND MY DECISIONS
Factors
Your that Led
Situation
Decision You in
Making the
Decision
You want to become an architect, but your parent’s
want you to become a nurse like your cousin who
is now working abroad and is earning a lot of
money.
You are quiet type of person, who prefers to work
alone rather than in a group, but your best friend,
insist that you will both take up Mass
Communication in college.
You really want to become a lawyer, but your family
is hit financially by the Pandemic.
Since you were young you always dreamed to
become a seafarer and travel the world, but your
father told you it is not good for you because you
are a woman.
You have high grades in Math and Science, you had
won several competitions in Robotics and you are
being offered by a scholarship in Computer
Engineering by one of the known universities in the
city.

What I have Learned

ACTIVITY 4: FILL THE CUP

Fill the cup with correct/true information about career planning. Write the
letters only.
Write answers here.

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 A. Career development is the process of improving an individual’s abilities in
anticipation of future opportunities for achieving career objectives.
B. Developing skills begins with assessing which skills are important in desired
Career Development.
C. Self-sabotaging thoughts are thoughts that surely help a person from
developing a healthy and wholesome self-concept.
D. A self-confident person will keep his eyes on his goals and declare to the world
that he can do it and will succeed in the pursuit of his dreams.
E. Your values will also play a role in your career choice.
F. Friends are the best source of support system they can never affect your plan
to be successful in the future.
G. Parents are always right, so let them decide alone for your future career
choice.
H. It is always best to be levelheaded and calm when making life directing
decisions.
I. You need to know yourself well enough to consciously process and select
information through what you prefer, what you value, and the skills you have.
J. You should also base your career decisions on the current trends in the job
market.

Now, that you were able to grasps the ideas in career decision making, are you
confident enough to pursue your dream career and pave your own path?

What I can Do

Now let, us check on what are your plans for yourself after learning the
different ideas shared to you in this learning module.
Write down your two top career choices using the graphic organizer given.
Under each star identify your personality trait, skills, career interest, career interest
area and values that may fit to your chosen career.
ACTIVITY 5: WISH UPON A STAR

My Top Career
1. Choices 2.
______________ ______________
Personality Trait
______________ Skills ______________
______________ Career Interest ______________
______________ Career Interest Areas ______________
______________ Values ______________
______

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 Assessment

Read the statement carefully and write the letter of the correct answer in a
separate answer sheet or in your notebook.
1. Is defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a person
throughout a lifetime.
A. Career B. Culture C. Destiny D. Sacrifices
2. It means a position an individual holds during specific duties.
A. Job B. Promotion C. Occupation D. Vocation
3. To be a customer service representative of Business Process Outsourcing
Companies (BPOs), you must have the following qualities, EXCEPT
A. good problem-solving skills
B. strong command of English
C. willing to work on weekends, nightshifts, and holidays
D. preferably political science or legal management graduate
4. The process of choosing a career, improving your skills, and advancing a long
a career path.
A. Career Satisfaction C. Career Shift
B. Career Development D. Career Wheel
5. It is defined as the similar work for which people have similar responsibilities
and for which they develop a common set of skills and knowledge.
A. Job B. Occupation C. Position D. Role
6. They work as part time or full time and are often sent to places in their home
country or around the world. They receive training for first aid and other
important skills for rescue and relief.
A. Police Officers C. Human Rights Advocates
B. Red Cross Volunteers D. Youth Coordinating Council
7. Importance of career development to students, EXCEPT
A. Let students understand themselves better.
B. Allow students to make well informed decisions.
C. Enable students to take ownership of their career choice.
D. Make students become dependent to their parent’s decision.

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8. According to Super’s life and career developmental stage, most of you whose
age ranges from 15-24 belongs to exploratory stage and these possess
characteristics, EXCEPT
A. Skill development
B. Making tentative choices
C. Stabilization through work experience
D. "Trying out" through classes, work, hobbies
9. True concept about personality and interest as the factor that could influence
one’s career decision
A. career boosting C. need to match with the career requirements
B. career magnet D. those with pleasing personality are easily hired
10. Are thoughts that can deter you from developing a healthy and wholesome
self-concept
A. Daydreams C. Social imagination
B. Fantasizing thoughts D. Self-sabotaging thoughts
11. The skills required for a content writer.
A. excellent writing skills C. Both A & B
B. solid command in English D. None of the above
12. John is very good in planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating business
that is why he took up BS Accountancy. The main factor that influences
John’s choice of course is _____.
A. experience B. gender C. life roles D. skills and abilities
13. Questions that need clear and accurate answers so that you can better
enhance self-understanding and make useful career development plans.
A. What you do well? C. What is important to you?
B. What you like to do? D. All of the above
14. Values are important part in career decision-making process because it ___.
A. gives you a sense of purpose C. guides your salvation
B. makes you a true Christian D. deepens your faith in God
15. Arrange in sequential order (growth to decline) the developmental tasks of an
individual, according to Super’s Career Developmental Stages.
1. Giving less time to hobbies
2. Getting started in a chosen field
3. Developing a realistic self-concept
4. Learning more about opportunities
5. Verifying current occupational choice
A. 3,5,2,4,1 B. 3,2,4,1,5 C. 3,4,2,5,1 D. 3,4,5,2,1

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 Additional Activities

ACTIVITY 6: FUTURE OCCUPATION BIO-POEM

Try to imagine your future by making an occupation bio-poem following this
format.

Future Occupation Bio-Poem

Line 1 – Write your first name
Line 2 – Write your favorite
occupation
Line 3 – Who can [Write something
important you will do in this
occupation]
Line 4 – Who earns [Write the
median salary for this occupation]
Line 5 – Who knows how to [Write
knowledge necessary for this
occupation]
Line 6 – Who values [Write the
work value(s) related to the
occupation]
Line 7 – Write your last name
Adapted from Theresa
secondary-students/.2014
Example
Ziana
A pediatrician
Who wants to help little children feel
better from pain
Who earns ₱4,000 a day
Who knows how to diagnose and treat
illnesses, administer vaccines, treat
accidents and injuries of young
patients
Who values quality, safety, and
compassionate environment for all
children
Uy
Steinlage. https://www.kuder.com/blog/career-counseling-coaching/4-fun-career-planning-activities-for-

Congratulations, for discerning what you really want in life. Your dreams are
valid let them come true.

Answer Key

10.D
A

10.D
What I Have Learned

9. C 9. B
B

8. C 8. B
7. D 7. D
D

6. B 6. C
E

C 5. B 15. 5. D
A 4. B 14. 4. C
H

D 3. D 13. 3. B
D 2. A 12. 2. B
I

C 1. A 11. 1. A
J

Assessment What I Know

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 References
Books:
Carandang, Ma. Lourdes A. et.al. Personal Development. Mandaluyong City,
Philippines: Anvil Publishing Inc. (2016)

Department of Education Personal Development Module from the. First

Edition (2016)

Santos, Ricardo Rubio, Personal Development. Manila Philippines: Rex

Bookstore, Inc. (2016)

Internet:
Dawn Rosenberg McKay .What Is Career Development?. Updated August 04,
2020. https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-career-development-
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Catherine Moore. How to Set and Achieve Life Goals The Right Way.2020.
https://tinyurl.com/y3mnhqpk. Retrieved Oct.28, 2020

Core Values: Overview and Examples.2020. https://www.indeed.com/career-

advice/career-development/core-values. Oct.28, 2020

The Career Center. Florida State University. Career Decision Making.

https://career.fsu.edu/students/plan-your-career/career-decision-making
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https://tinyurl.com/y2sujoxy. Retrieved Oct.22, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/y436f4ua Retrieved Oct.27, 2020

https://tinyurl.com/yy9fyvey Retrieved Oct.27, 2020

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