Career Pathways

CAREER PATHWAYS
GROUP 5
CAREER PATHWAYS
LEARNING COMPETENCIES:
1. Discuss
the external factors influencing career choices that
may help in career decision making
2. Identify pros and cons of various career option with the

guidance of parent, teacher, or counselor
3. Prepare a career plan based on his/her personal goal and

external factors influencing career choice
CAREER PATHWAYS
Career decision and selection of career pathways remain to
be a big problem for you, your parents, and other authorities
around you duo to varied external factors, work environment
and interests affecting you in the process.
In this lesson you will explore all these factors and study the
advantage and disadvantage of different working environment
that will help you in your career planning and development.
What influence your career choices?
This are a lot of external factors to considers in career
development. As you go through the different factors below, you will
see how they affect or influence your career choice. You will also
identify which among these factors have least and big impact to your
career options.
Skills and Abilities
Skills and abilities are the things you naturally do well,
talents and strengths that you possess. These can include natural
capabilities you’ve always had or acquired through experience
and training.
Interest and Personality Type
Are your interests and personality type compatible
with your career choices? You need to know what makes you
happy and be motivated every day. Learning about you
interest and personality leads you to better choose a working
environment that fits you.
Life Roles
You play multiple roles in your lives and that these
roles change over the course of time. How you think about
yourself on these roles may influence how you look at
careers in general and how make choices for yourself.
Previous Experiences
Having positive experiences and role models working in
specific career may influence you in the set of careers you
consider as options for yourself. If you have proven success
and achieved positive self-esteem in particular area of work,
more likely, you will have it as a top career option.
Culture
Racial and ethnic background, as well as the culture of
your local community, and extended family, may impact career
your decisions. Culture often shapes your values and
expectations as they relate to many parts of your lives,
including jobs and careers.
Gender
How you view yourself as an individual in terms of
gender may influence both the opportunities and obstacles you
perceive as you make career decisions. Studies of gender and
career development are ongoing as the roles of men and women
in the workplace evolve.
Social and Economic Conditions
All of your career choices take place within the context
of society and the economy. Changes in the economy and the
resulting job market may also affect how your career
development.
Childhood Fantasies
What do you want to be when you grow-up? You can remember
this question during your childhood years, and it may have influenced
your thoughts about careers, then, as well as in the present moment.
Psychologist John Holland classified jobs/careers/work

environments into six:
1. Realistic (Do’er) –Prefers physical activities that required skills,
strength, and coordination. Traits include genuine, stable,
conforming and practical.
EXAMPLE:
Professions include architect, farmer, and engineer.
2. Investigative (Thinker)- Prefers working with the theory and
information, thinking, organizing, and understanding. Traits include:
analytical, curios, and independent.
EXAMPLE:
Professions include lawyer, mathematician, and professor.
3. Artistic (Creator)- Prefers creative, original, and
unsystematic activities that allow creative expressions. Traits
include: imaginative, disorderly, idealistic, emotional, and
impractical.
EXAMPLE:
Professions include: artist, musician, and writer.
4. Social (Helper)- Prefers activities that involve helping,

healing, or developing others. Traits include: cooperative,
friendly, sociable, and understanding.
EXAMPLE:
Profession include counselors, doctor, and teacher.
5. Enterprising (Persuader)- Prefers, competitive
environments, leadership, influence, selling, and status.
Traits include: ambitions domineering, energetic, and self-
confident.
EXAMPLE:
Professions include Management, Marketing, and
Sales Person.
6. Conventional (Organizer) – Prefers precise, rule-regulated,
orderly, and unambiguous activities. Traits include:
conforming, efficient, practical, unimaginative, and inflexible.
EXAMPLE:
Professions include accountant, clerk and editor.
Your are most happy when you are placed in jobs that
match your personality. When personality and occupation are
in agreement, employee satisfaction is high and there will be
less turnover.
Holland’s Hexagon of Job Personalities
Holland created a hexagon view to show the
relationships of job personality types.
Realistic Investigative
Conventional Artistic
Enterprising Social
Notice that the job personality types closer to each other
are more alike, while the job personality types further
away are least alike. You can see more clearly the
relationship of job personalities according to their
placements on the hexagon. For example, for Realistic and
Social job personality types, you will see that they are
virtually the opposite of each other. On the other hand,
social and artistic are located besides each other. This
shows that realistic and social job personality types are
least alike, while social and artistic job personality types
are more alike.
ACTIVITY 1. Essay writing
Directions: Write an essay by answering all the questions below in
no particular order. Create your own title and write your answer in
your journal notebook.
TITLE:
What do you want to be when you grow up?
What affects your choices?
What would you like to do?
What are you interested in?
What is important to you?
DIRECTIONS: Read the question carefully and write the correct
answer in the space provided.
A B
1. Abilities and the things you naturally do 1. Interest and personality
well, talents and strengths that you
possess.
2. Are your and type compatible 2. Culture
with your career choice.
3. You play multiple roles in your lives and
that these roles change over the course of 3. Skills and Abilities
time.
4. Having positive experiences and role
models working in specific careers may 4. Life roles
influence you consider as option for
yourself.
5. Racial and ethnic background as the culture of 5. Previous experiences
your local community and extended family may
impact career your decisions. 6. Realistic
6. All your career choices take place within the
context of society and the economy.
7. Artistic
7. Prefers physical activities that require skill,
strength and coordination.
8. Prefers working with the theory and information, 8. Investigative
thinking organizing and understanding.
9. Prefers creative original and unsystematic 9. Social and Economic
activities that allow creative expression. Conditions
10. Prefers activities that involve helping, healing, or
developing others. 10. Social
ENUMERATION
Give the 8 types of what influences your career choices.
Give the 6 psychologist John Holland classified jobs/careers/work

environment.

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2. Identify pros and cons of various career option with the

3. Prepare a career plan based on his/her personal goal and

Psychologist John Holland classified jobs/careers/work

4. Social (Helper)- Prefers activities that involve helping,

Give the 8 types of what influences your career choices.

Give the 6 psychologist John Holland classified jobs/careers/work

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