Career Goals: Development and Values

• Career development and work values define a person's progress throughout life and involve employment.
• A career goal helps one focus on their aspirations and guides them towards fulfilling work.
• Confucius quote: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Achieving Career Goals

• Make a written plan to provide direction and structure.
• Maintain persistence and patience to stay on track.
• Dedication leads to career opportunities.
• Feedback and criticism can be helpful for career advice.
• Listen to what others say and respond positively.
• True passion inspires you to reach your career goals faster.
• Do research to stay informed in your field.
• Rewards are important, so enjoy your achievements along the way.
• Perseverance in achieving career goals is key.

Setting Career Goals

• Short-term career goals: Achieved within six months to three years.
• Long-term career goals: Require training and planning and take 12 months or more to achieve.

Setting Career Goals (SMART)

• Specific: Define what success really means to you.
• Measurable: Create a way to measure your outcomes with a timeframe.
• Realistic: Ensure your goal is achievable given the right circumstances.
• Take action: List the activities needed to achieve the goal.
• Commitment: Avoid negative thoughts, commit to your goal, and consider how to get there.

Career Development

• A series of activities designed to match an individual's needs, abilities, and goals with current or future opportunities in an organization.
• It involves implementing action plans.
• Career progression depends on job performance.
• Career opportunities can also come from outside an existing organization through resignation
• Mentors aid career development by sharing their knowledge and insights.
• Growth opportunities involves expanding abilities through training programs.

Concepts of Career Development

• Organizations should utilize employees' abilities and provide growth opportunities.
• Organizations have a duty to improve the quality of life for employees.
• Quality of Life: Encompasses working conditions, pay, and the ability to use one's skills.

The Importance of Career Development

• Fostering communication enhances communication at all levels of the organization.
• Assisting with career decisions helps employee assess their skills and competencies.
• Better use of employee skills allows for maximum output.
• Setting realistic goals helps employees and the organization know what is feasible.
• Enhancing career satisfaction means the organization should prepare valuable employees for future positions and understand their needs.
• Feedback is vital for measuring success and understanding expectations.

Career Development Theories

• They study career path, success, and behavior to explain a person's fit for a career and how to attain a promising trajectory.
• They also explain how individuals develop an inclination to a particular field.

Need Theory (Anna Roe)

• Career choice is based on interaction with parents and whether they seek person-oriented or non-person-oriented jobs.
• Early childhood experiences influence career choices and intensity of motivation.

Parenting Styles (Roe's Theory)

• Avoidance: Neglect or emotional deprivation.
• Acceptable: Casual or loving.
• Emotional Concentration: Over-protective or Over-demanding.

Self-Concept Theory (Donald Super)

• Self-concept changes over time and develops as a result of experience, and values shift and develop.

Five Stages of Career Development (Self-Concept Theory)

• Growth (birth to 14 years): Develops sense and attitude toward work.
• Exploration (15 to 24 years): Tries different career paths through classes and casual work.
• Establishment (25 to 44 years): Develops entry-level job skills and work experience.
• Maintenance (45 to 65 years): Changes elements of career to improve position.
• Decline: Reduces workload and prepares for retirement.

Eight Life Roles (Donald Super)

• Child
• Student
• Leisurite
• Citizen
• Worker
• Parent
• Spouse
• Homemaker

Vocational Theory (Eli Ginzberg)

• Career development is influenced by reality, education, emotions and individual values.
• Career requires education, vision, values, goals, skills, and interests.

Three Stages

• Childhood or Fantasy
• Adolescent or Tentative
• Adulthood or Maturity or Realistic

Stages for Tentative Period

• Interest, Capacity, Values and Transition
• Three Sub-stages: Exploration, Crystallization, and Specification

Influencing Factors

• Diverse life responsibility
• Traits and interests
• Cultural background
• Financial stability
• Career guidance

Social Learning Theory (John Krumboltz)

• Individuals have their own genetic endowment and learn from their experiences.
• One's experience on reward and punishment, success or failure influences their new decisions in life, shaping them into a unique person.

Four Factors Influencing Career Choice

• Genetic Endowment and Special Abilities

• Environmental Conditions and Events

• Learning Experiences

• Emotional Response

• Self-observation generalization makes conclusion about competence and worth for future decisions.

• Planned Happenstance: Explains people follow different paths based on experiences and lessons learned that impact cognition.

• Main Tenet: Take the opportunities that life brings.

Categories of Learning Experiences:

• Instrumental Learning Experiences: Learning from actions and consequences.

• Associative Learning Experiences: Learning from watching, listening, or reading about others.

• Career development is unique and influences can be altered.

Generalization Template Theory (Dr. Alexa Abrenica)

• Socialization: Introduces a child to the ways of living one's culture through parental observation.
• Positive Experience: Increases self-confidence.
• Presence of Successful Models: Enables self-evaluation and increases self-confidence.
• Generalization Theory Main Tenet: Choose a career that matches personality, abilities & interests.

Theory of Circumscription and Compromise (Gottfredson)

• Stages of Gottfredson's Theory: Orientation to size and power, Orientation to sex roles, Orientation to social values, Orientation to the internal technique self

Gottfredson's Five Recommendations

• Work with your core traits.
• Sample a broad range of experience.
• Surround yourself with positivity.
• Acknowledge uniqueness.
• Keep an open mind.

Concepts & Types of Career

• Sequence of positions held by a person that provide continuity, order, and meaning.
• Two types of careers: internal and external

Qualities of Career Types

• Internal Career is subjective, involving an individual's self-concept and evolving values.
• External Career is objective, meaning the sequence of positions held.

Career Path

• Series of jobs the help you progress toward your goals and aspirations.
• Must remain in a learning mode to add to you skill set.

Two Types of Skills

• Soft Skills are interpersonal and relate to personality and ability to work with others.
• Hard Skills are quantifiable, teachable, and include specific technical job knowledge.

Aspects to Help You Persue Your Career

• Increase your networks and be flexible.
• Never be afraid of a lateral move.

Three Distinct Phases of Career Development

• Staffing and Orientation, Evaluation Phase and Development Phase

Actions Needed for Career Development

• Job Performance and Exposure

More Actions Needed for Career Development

• Opportunities to resign or change the job, as well as career guidance

Career Satisfaction Theory

• Presents the different factors that affect one's contentment and tenure in an occupation.
• Frank Parsons Theory states that you should match personal traits like skills, values and personality with job factors such as pay and work environment.
• Trait and Factor- is the assessment of characteristics of the person and the job

Understanding Trait and Factor Theory

• Trait is a characteristic of an individual.
• Factor is a characteristic required for job performance.

Choosing a Career

• Step 1: Understanding yourself (Interests, Aptitude, Achievement, Values & Personality).
• Step 2: Understanding the word of work.
• Step 3: Integrating Info (Matching and assessing job requirements to competencies).

Trait-and-Factor Theory

• Every individual possess stable and relatively unchanging traits such as skill

John Holland Personality Types and Work Environment Theory

• You will find job satisfying if you're able to choose an occupation that fits his personality

Holland Codes

• Classifies people according to their interests.
• There are six main personality types.

Holland Types, Key Skills & Possible Occupations

• Realistic (Building): Hands-on work; Pilots, Engineers, Mechanics, Electricians...
• Investigative (Thinking): Research; Medical, Chemist, Zoologist, Dentist....
• Artistic (Creative): Expressive; Artists, Illustrators, Photographers, Writers...
• Social (Helping): Caring; Teacher, Nurse, Counselor, Social Worker...
• Enterprising (Persuading): Leading; Salesperson, Lawyer, Accountant...
• Conventional (Organizing): Following procedures; Office worker, Bank clerk, Librarian...

Rene Davis Theory of Work Adjustment:

• Depicts that interaction can be a form of adjustment as the interaction of people with their environment.
• Principle: The workers contribute to their professional skills to the equation while the work environment supplies the tasks.

Factors That Effect Workers

• In order to complete the given tasks, workers must be adequately compensated and given a safe work culture.
• The interests and personality of the work force can affect his satisfaction.

Worker Styles

• Flexibility, Activeness, Reactiveness, and Persistence

Diane Brown Value-based Holistic Approach

• Value-Based Career Theory comprises of beliefs or principles relating to your career or place of work

There Types of Values (Values)

• Cultural Values
• Work Values
• Life Values

Tenets

• Its not one's interest, but more so the values we prioritize.

Values Include Three Components

• Cognitive
• Affective
• Behavior

Examples of Work Values

• Accountability, Orientation to detail, Responsibility, Positivity, Punctuality, Teamwork, Honesty, Autonomy, Respect, Loyalty

GOALS AND PERSONAL MISSON IN LIFE

• Job is a work situation whereas Career is built upon one's skills

In Relation To Life

• Vocation is an activity or hobby for enjoyment with one's own spare time.

How to Achieve Goals

• By keeping a positive attitude, and recognizing our interests and skills.

Ways To Market To Employers

• Knowing your soft & hard skills to get a job.

What Is Necessary To Set Goals?

• Types of goals: Long Term, Short Term, and lifetime goals.

Tools To Obtain Career

• SMART Goals
• Developing a Career Plan
• Career Planning takes work

Planning Consists Of

• Self-Assessment, Career Exploration, Career Identification and Creating an Action Plan

Work Quality

• The workplace's most important principles.

Important Factors

• Why is it important to pay attention to our work value? and What motivates you? (Intrinsic or Extrinsic ?)

3 Elements (Intrinsic Values)

• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose

How a Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards Relate

• Extrinsic involves the rewards that are separate from the experience itself.

Three Distinct Factors

1. Discipline
2. Diligence
3. Team Player
4. Positive Attitude
5. Helpfulness
6. Integrity
7. Calmness Under Stress

Main Pillars of Work Ethic

• Moral Principles and Integrity

Workplace Behavior Guidelines

• Dos & Don'ts

Resume

• Overview of skills, education and work.

Paired With Cover Letter

• Should demonstrate qualification, and demonstrate ability to preform the work task.

Parts To Include

• Contact details
• Introduction
• Education
• Experience
• Skills

The Chronological Order

• Meaning your most recently held position is placed at the top.

Functional Resume

• Formatted to focus on your skills and abilities over your work history.

Combination Resume

• Mix between both chronological resume and a functional resume.

Job Application Letter

• A document sent with the resume for additional qualification background.

Tips For the Letter

• A greeting, introduction, body, closing and signature to end it to sign your intent.