Road to the Right Choices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 Objectives
At the end of this module, the learners are expected to:

a. Enumerate the different professions and life choices;

b. Explain the different factors affecting the choices in
life and profession;
c. Appreciate the factors in choosing a profession.
 “DESIGNING A COSTUME”

Color Grouping:

Red – Academic Track

Blue – Arts and Design Track
Green – Technical Vocational and
Livelihood Track
Yellow – Sports Track
 “DESIGNING A COSTUME”

1. Design a simple costume representing the

cluster of profession/ vocation assigned to
your group.
2. Assign a representative who will wear the
costume.
3. Discuss about the track assigned to them
including other professions related to the track.
4. The representative will model the costume,
introduce the track and cite other professions
related to the track.
 Guide Questions

1. What did your group do to come up

with the costume? With the
introduction about the track?
2. How did you feel while doing the
different stages of the activity?
3. Do you see yourself in any of the
clusters in the near future? Why?
 Activity: “Sikreto sa Tagumpay ni Selina”

Read the story entitled “ Sikreto sa

Tagumpay ni Selina.”
 Guide Questions

1. What does the story tell about?

2. According to the story, what factors affected the
career choices of the character in the story?
3. How did these factors help the character in her
choice of career?
4. As a student in senior high school, will you also
consider these factors?
5. Considering these factors, do you think you will
make a good choice of career? Why?
 Lecture

Factors Affecting Career

and Life Options
 Lecture

“ I am convinced that every effort must be

made in childhood to teach the young to
use their own minds. For one thing is sure:
If they don’t make up their minds,
someone will do it for them.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
 Lecture

Life is a choice. Our choices our

influenced by different factors- personal,
family, or social. These influences are
unique in every individual and dependent
upon the situation the individual is in at
that time the choice was made.
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Career and Life Choices

PERSONAL SOCIAL
FAMILY
Skills and abilities Influence of friends
Interests and Parental Influence and peers
Personality Types Beliefs and Influence of media/
Life Roles Traditions technology
Previous Experiences Financial Resources Industry demands
Childhood Fantasies and expectations
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Skills and Abilities

• Are you aware of your skills and abilities?
• Do you know what you are capable of
PERSONAL doing?
Skills and abilities
Interests and When individuals are in jobs best
Personality Types
Life Roles
suited to their abilities, they perform best
Previous Experiences and their productivity is highest. Parson’s
Childhood Fantasies
Trait and Factor Theory of Occupational
Choice emphasized the importance of
analyzing one’s skills, values, interests, and
personality and then match these up to jobs
which use these.
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Interests and Personality Types

• Do you know your interests and personality
type?
PERSONAL

Skills and abilities

Holland’s Career Typology established a
Interests and classification system that matches personality
Personality Types
Life Roles
characteristics and personal preferences to job
Previous Experiences characteristics. According to John Holland’s
Childhood Fantasies
theory, most people are one of the 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.
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Life Roles
• What do you think is your role in life –a
leader? An organizer? A mediator? A
PERSONAL designer?
Skills and abilities
Interests and According to Super’s Lifespan Theory?
Personality Types
Life Roles
How we think about ourselves in these roles,
Previous Experiences their requirements of them, and the external
Childhood Fantasies
forces that affect them, may influence how we
look at careers in general and how we make
choices for ourselves.
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Previous Experiences
• Did you think of pursuing a task which you
have been successful in the past?
PERSONAL

Skills and abilities

One aspect of the Social Cognitive
Interests and Career Theory addresses the fact that we are
Personality Types
Life Roles
likely to consider continuing a particular task if
Previous Experiences we have had a positive experience doing it. In
Childhood Fantasies
this way, we focus on areas in which we have
had proven success and achieved positive self-
esteem.
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Childhood Fantasies

• “What do you want to be when you grow

PERSONAL
up?”
Skills and abilities Perhaps this frequently asked question
Interests and
Personality Types
during our childhood years may have helped
Life Roles shape what we thought we would be then, as
Previous Experiences
Childhood Fantasies
well as later in life.
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Career and Life Choices

PERSONAL SOCIAL
FAMILY
Skills and abilities Influence of friends
Interests and Parental Influence and peers
Personality Types Beliefs and Influence of media/
Life Roles Traditions technology
Previous Experiences Financial Resources Industry demands
Childhood Fantasies and expectations
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Parental Influence
• How many percent of your career decision is influenced
by your parents?

Many children grow up idealizing the professions

of their parents. Parents may intentionally or
FAMILY
unintentionally push their child towards a particular
career path, especially in the cases of family-owned
Parental Influence
Beliefs and businesses where parents expect their children to take
Traditions over the company.
Financial Resources If your parents are educated of were always
struggling to get by financially, you may decide not to be in
the same position. This may prompt you to pursue a totally
different career path- to have a stable, high-earning job.
Likewise, if you have parents who are workaholics and
were never around when you were a child, you may decide
to pursue a line of work with flexibility that gives you more
time with your children.
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Financial Resources
In choosing a career or profession, there is a
need to consider the capability to support the course or
career to be pursued. Social Cognitive Theory and Social
Learning Theory address this and recognize that events
FAMILY that take place in our lives may affect the choices available
to us and even dictate our choices to a certain degree.
Parental Influence
Beliefs and
• When your family has limited financial resources, will
Traditions
Financial Resources you insist on pursuing medicine?
• Or would you rather take up other related courses first
and pursue medicine when you are capable of
shouldering the expenses yourself?
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Family Beliefs and Traditions

Beliefs and traditions is another family factor to

FAMILY
consider when making a career choice. It is tradition for
Parental Influence
example that all male siblings in the clan take up
Beliefs and engineering courses. Being a family tradition, this could
Traditions somehow be relevant when making a career choice.
Financial Resources
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Career and Life Choices

PERSONAL SOCIAL
FAMILY
Skills and abilities Influence of friends
Interests and Parental Influence and peers
Personality Types Beliefs and Influence of media/
Life Roles Traditions technology
Previous Experiences Financial Resources Industry demands
Childhood Fantasies and expectations
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Influence of Media/ Technology

SOCIAL
The influence of social media may have positive
Influence of friends and negative effects.
and peers Nowadays, career information is available to 21st
Influence of media/
century learners. These information may be used or may
technology
Industry demands influence you in deciding for their career.
and expectations
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Influence of Friends and Peers

SOCIAL Peer pressure is common among learners. There

are learners who decide on the career to pursue based on
Influence of friends the opinion or choice of their friends.
and peers • Who among you will choose the same course as your
Influence of media/ friends? Why?
technology There are many reasons for this– you want to be
Industry demands in, would not want to make new friends and make new
and expectations adjustments, or too much attachment to old friends.
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Influence Demands and

Expectations
SOCIAL
Our career choices take place within the context
Influence of friends of society and the economy. Graduates have been practical
and peers in considering the demands and expectations of the
Influence of media/ industries before coming up with their career decisions.
technology These guide them in deciding what to do and where to go.
Industry demands Changes in the economy and resulting job market may also
and expectations
affect how their careers develop.

• As senior high school learners, are you aware of the

different choices of professions and career?
• Do you know where to go after senior high school?
 Employment

Entrepreneurship

Middle Level Skills

Development

Higher Education
Senior High School Curriculum Exits
 Senior High School Curriculum Exits

The Senior High School (SHS) program

opens employment opportunities for graduates.
Graduates of the Technical- Vocational –
Livelihood (TVL) Track may apply for TESDA
Employment

Certificates of Competency (COCs) and National

Certificates (NCs).
Partnerships with different companies
for technical and vocational courses expose
students to the real world of work. Students
also gain work experience while studying, and
companies can even hire them after they
graduate.
 Employment

Entrepreneurship

Middle Level Skills

Development

Higher Education
Senior High School Curriculum Exits
 Senior High School Curriculum Exits

When the inclusion of an

Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship subject in the curriculum,

SHS graduates are better equipped for small-
scale business activities, such as running a
family business or starting one’s own
business.
 Employment

Entrepreneurship

Middle Level Skills

Development

Higher Education
Senior High School Curriculum Exits
 Senior High School Curriculum Exits

Middle level skills require learning and

training higher than high school education but
Middle Level Skills

lower than a four-year college course. These

standard requirements built in their chosen
Development

specializations. In the same way that SHS

graduates are better prepared for college, they
are also equipped for developing more
specialized skills in technical-vocational
schools.
 Employment

Entrepreneurship

Middle Level Skills

Development

Higher Education
Senior High School Curriculum Exits
 Senior High School Curriculum Exits

Higher Education

Some subjects in the College General

Education curriculum have now been
integrated in to the SHS curriculum, leaving
only the subjects that are more focused and
relevant to your chosen course or major.
 Senior High School Curriculum Exits
Regulated Professions per Cluster
Cluster of Regulated Professions
Professions
Higher Education

Medical and Health Nursing, Medicine, Medical Technology, Radiology

Technology, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Optometry, Dentistry,
Respiratory Therapy, Physical Therapy and Occupational
Therapy, Midwifery, Veterinary Medicine

Engineering Aeronautical, Agricultural, Chemical, Civil, Electrical,

Profession Cluster electronics, Geodetic, Mechanical, Metallurgical, Mining,
Naval Architecture and Marine, Sanitary
Business, Education Accountancy, Criminology, Customs Broker, Guidance and
and Social Work Counseling, Librarians, Marine Deck Officers, Marine Engine
Professions Cluster Officers, Professional Teachers, Psychology, Real Estate
Service, Social Workers

Technology Cluster Agriculture, Architecture, Chemistry, Environmental

Planning, Fisheries, Foresters, Geology, Interior Design,
Landscape Architecture, Master Plumbers
 Guide Questions

1. Given the different career and life choices, what would help you to
decide where to go after senior high school?
2. Why is it helpful for you to know the different professions and other
life choices?
3. What is the importance of considering the different factors in
choosing your profession/ vocation?
4. What is your insight about this statement from Confucius?
“ Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in
your life?”
 Activity 1.2: “Reasons behind My Choices”

Directions: Draw shapes inside the big circle to represent the factors that 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.
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