Module 6

Grade 11 Career Guidance Module

Education is not a
ladder of opportunity,
but it is also an
investment in our
future.
-Ed Markey
Reminders:

Total Time Allotment: 90 minutes

Materials Needed: Activity Sheets & pen

 OBJECTIVES
At the end of this module, you are
expected to:

a. name the pros and cons of the decision

made for life and career; and

b. formulate ways on how to address the

possible challenges and areas for
enrichment.
Priorities
Direction:

Choose three (3) challenges or

concerns in relation to what you are
presently experiencing in your chosen
career from the following list below.
Rank them one to three (1 as the
highest, 3 as the lowest).
 Activity 1: My Priorities

___________ Financial Status

___________ Health
___________ Job Opportunities
___________ Parents influence
___________ Influence from Significant others
___________ Distance between home and employment opportunity
___________ School for College course
___________ Capital for Entrepreneurship
___________ Opportunities to work abroad
___________ Will to pursue college
___________ Educational Scholarship
___________ Change of Life Style
___________ Work ethics
___________ Compensation
___________ Hard Skills
___________ Personal choice (interest)
1. Reflecting from the activity, what have
you realized?
2. What made you decide in choosing the
first three priorities?
3. What do you think are the factors that you
have to consider in career planning?
Here’s another activity for you
Activity 2: Factors in Choosing a Career
Which has the greater weight?
Pros Cons
Factors in choosing a Career
(advantages) (disadvantages)
What are those? What are those?
a. Employment opportunity
Availability of job in the locality and/or nearby areas.
b. Financial capability of the parents
Availability of financial resources to sustain the needs to
finish the preferred course.
c. Global opportunity
High probability to work in other countries.
d. Health
Enjoy good physical and mental health and vitality; enjoy
physical and mental well-being; be free from disease or pain.
(Santamaria, J.O)
e. High paying job/profession
Income generating career.
Compensation is far above the regular received salary of
common workers.
f. Interest
Preference for certain kinds of activities (Santamaria, J.O)
 Which has the greater weight?
Pros Cons
Considering Factors in choosing a Career (advantages) (disadvantages)
What are those? What are those?
g. Mental capacity
Sufficient understanding and memory to comprehend
in a general way the situation in which one finds
oneself and the nature, purpose, and consequence
of any act or transaction into which one proposes to
enter. (Merriam Webster)
h. Personality
The characteristic patterns of behavior, thought, and
emotion that determine a person’s adjustment to
environment. (Atkinson, Atkinson, Smith & Bem, 1997)
i. Prestige
Become well-known; gain the respect of others; be
acknowledged by others as being better. (Santamaria,
J.O)
k. Social responsibility
Social and humanitarian values.
Source: International Journal of Academic Research in Psychology July 2014, Vol. 1, No. 2 ISSN 2312-
1882 Career Related Profile of Freshman Students for Academic Year 2013 – 2014: Basis for a Career
Development Plan Sheena Wella G. Arguelles and Amelia B. Bay Counseling and Testing Center, Lyceum
of the Philippines University, Batangas.
Procedure:

1. Answer the activity sheet by filling one

column between the pros and cons of the
given factors to be considered in choosing
a career.
Here’s what your activity look like:
Student’s career choice: To become a chef in a cruise ship
Which has the greater weight?
Pros Cons
Factors in choosing a Career
(advantages) (disadvantages)
What are those? What are those?
a. Employment opportunity  There are a number of restaurants
Availability of job in the locality and hotels in our province.
and/or nearby areas.  I have a relative who is a hotel
supervisor and my cousin has a
catering business.
 We have a small carinderia and
my older sister sell baon pack in
the factories.

a. Financial capability of the parents  My father’s income

Availability of financial resources is seasonal
to sustain the needs to finish the (livestock).
preferred course.  I am the second in
a brood of five and
we are all in school.
1. Did you find it difficult to identify if the
given factors are advantageous or
disadvantageous for your chosen
career? Why do you say so?
2. How do this activity help you in
implementing your life and career
goals?
Goal is anything — an
object or situation —
that we think we need
or want. It may be
something we want to
do, what we want to be,
or what we want to
have.
Need is what we don’t have or don’t have
enough of.
The well-known social psychologist Abraham H.
Maslow classified human needs and arrange them
in hierarchical order from lower to higher needs. His
theory of sequential development of needs states
that:
• Lower-level needs develop first in the life of a
person
• Once lower-level needs are satisfied or are on the
way to satisfaction, they assume less importance
in motivation because the higher-level needs
become dominant in motivating behavior.
 Value is something we have and which we prize or treasure. We
make choices to protect, defend or enhance it. A value is shown in the
choice we freely make. We are happy with the choice. If we value working
with others, we will always choose situations at work in which we interact
with others rather than working alone.
Different kinds of values:
o Personal Values
o Family Values
o Spiritual Values
o Work Values
o Career Values
o Social and Humanitarian Values
o Cultural Values

Source: Santamaria, J.O. Career Planning Workbook 4th Ed. 2006 Career
Systems, Inc. Makati City, Philippines
 Jumping the Hurdles Inside of Me
There will be many obstacles that the adolescent will face
when choosing and planning a career path. The bigger the
problems adolescents think they have, the stronger they will
become after overcoming these problems. Jumping the hurdles that
are within will take time, but practicing the virtues will strengthen
adolescents for the hurdles they will have to jump over. There are
many different external obstacles that adolescents will face in the
path that they choose to take. Many of these problems may seem
like they are beyond the adolescents’ control. It is important
however, to remind them that in every situation that occurs, what
matters most is how they deal with it. To jump the hurdles from
outside takes a lot of strength in decision making.
Source: Torralba, Antonio N. & Socorro L. Bautista, 2003 Career A Dream, A Mission,
A Vocation I am S.T.R.O.N.G for Career Copyright page 91, 92, 93
Let’s Apply it
Activity 3: I create my own ladder of success!
Draw an illustration using a ladder with 4 stairs showing your journey in
reaching your career and life goals through the career decision you made.

1st stair : at present

2nd stair : after senior high school graduation
3rd stair : 5 years from now
4th stair : 10 years from now
Processing question:

From the rating of 1 to 10 (10 as the

highest, 1 is the lowest), what is your level
of determination at this moment in order to
achieve your career life goals?
 REFLECTION
1. Write your insights and
realizations based on the three
activities (checklist, activity
sheet & illustration) you made
in your career journal.
2. You will be grouped into five to
share your insights and
realization about the whole
activity.
EVALUATION
Activity 4: My Action Plans

Direction:
Prepare an Action Plan based
on the cons/disadvantages you have
indicated in the Activity Sheet.
Here’s what your Action Plan look like:

Cons/ Disadvantages Plan of Action

1. Financial Capacity  Graduate in Senior High School under
the strand of TVL.
 Earn the NC 2 given by TESDA.
 Look for a part-time job in fast food
chains or restaurants while pursuing
college.
 Apply for possible scholarships or
financial assistance.
Enroll in a state university.
2. 
 Show the activity sheet to your
parents, discuss its results and ask
them to affix their signature in your
output.
References:
Atkinson, R.L., Atkinson, R.C., Smith, E.E., & Bem, D.J. (1997). Introduction to Psychology, 11th
edition. Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Torralba, Antonio N. & Socorro L. Bautista, 2003 Career A Dream, A Mission, A Vocation I am
S.T.R.O.N.G for Career Copyright page 91, 92, 93

Career Planning Model by Department of Training and Workforce Development, Career Centre,
accessed December 6, 2016,
http://www.careercentre.dtwd.wa.gov.au/CareerPlanning/Pages/CareerPlanning-
4StepPlanningProcess.aspx

International Journal of Academic Research in Psychology July 2014, Vol. 1, No. 2 ISSN 2312-
1882 Career Related Profile of Freshman Students for Academic Year 2013 – 2014: Basis for a
Career Development Plan Sheena Wella G. Arguelles and Amelia B. Bay Counseling and
Testing Center, Lyceum of the Philippines University, Batangas.

Santamaria, J.O Career Planning Workbook 4th Ed. 2006 Career Systems, Inc. Makati City,
Philippines

Merriam Webster
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