Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region I
Schools Division Office I Pangasinan
Pangasinan National High School
Lingayen, Pangasinan

Personal Development
CAREER PATHWAYS and
INSIGHTS INTO ONE’S
PERSONAL DEVELOMENT
Quarter 2 - Week 7 – Module 7

Most Essential Learning Competency:

Prepare a career plan based on the identified career options to attain personal life’s goals
(EsP-PD11/12PC-llG-12.3)

Explain the factors in personal development that may guide him/her in making important career decisions as adolescent
(EsP-PD11/12lOPD-lli-14.1)

Prepared by:

LOVELYBE ESTRADA-ERJAS, TII

Senior High School Department
What I Need to Know (Learning Objectives)
1. Identify and explain the different factors in making important career decisions as adolescent.
2. Realize on the different career decisions that learners might select in the future.
3. Prepare a career plan based on the identified career options to attain personal
life’s goals

What I Know: Multiple Choice ( Pre-test)

Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the correct answer in the space
provided before each number.
1. People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with object, machines, tools,
plants and animals, or be outdoors.
A. Artistic B. Investigative C. Realistic D. Social
2. People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, prefer to carry things out
in detail or follow through on others’ instructions.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
3. People who like to work with people – influencing, persuading, performing, leading, or
managing for organizational goals or for economic gain.
A. Investigative B. Enterprising C. Social D. Realistic
4. People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems.
A. Conventional B. Enterprising C. Investigative D. Realistic
5. People who have artistic, innovating, or intuitional abilities, and like to work in unstructured
situations using their imaginations or creativity.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
6. People who like to work with people – to inform, enlighten, help, train, develop, or cure them
or are skilled with words.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
7. An integrated collection of programs and services intended to develop student’s core
academic, technical and employability skills; provide them with continuous education, training
and place them in high-demand, high opportunity jobs.
A. Career Pathways C. Health and Wellness
B. Guidance and Counseling D. Sports Development
8. This will help sort out priorities in life. It may include short-term and long term goals or life-
long aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Philosophy in Life
B. Personal Mission Statement D. Vision and Mission
9. It covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build
human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the
realization of dreams and aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Community Development
B. Educational Plan D. Personal Development
10. All are external factors influencing career choices except
A. Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health
B. Gender, Interest and Personality Type
C. Life Roles, Skills and Abilities, Culture
D. Previous Experiences and Childhood Fantasies
 What’s New: Essay Writing – A Puzzled Mind...
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.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

What do you need to know?

What would you like to do?

What affects your choices? What is it important to you?
What are you interested in?

What hinders you to choose?

(Essay Title)

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 What Is It? LESSON 1. CAREER PATHWAYS

What influences Your Career Choices?

There are a lot of external factors to consider in career development. As you go through the different
factors below, you will see how they affect or influence your career choices. 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
choice? You need to know what makes you happy and be motivated every day. Learning about your
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 you make choices for yourself.

Previous Experiences. Having positive experiences and role models working in specific careers may
influence you on the set of careers you consider as options for yourself. If you have proven success
and achieved positive self-esteem in a 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
careers develop.
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. 1. Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal
Development Reader 1stedition, What Influences Your Career Choice? by Melissa Venable(Quezon
City: Sunshine InterlinksPublishing House Inc., 2016), 104-105.

Psychologist John Holland classified jobs/careers/work environments into six:

1. Realistic (Do’er) –Prefers physical activities that require skill, 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, curious, and independent. Example professions include
lawyer, mathematician, and professor.
3. Artistic (Creator) –Prefers creative, original, and unsystematic activities that allow creative
expression. 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 professions include counselor,
doctor, and teacher.
5. Enterprising (Persuader) –Prefers competitive environments, leadership, influence, selling, and
status. Traits include ambitious, 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.

You 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.
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 relationships 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
Artisti care 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.

LESSON 2. INSIGHTS INTO ONE’S PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

What is a Personal Mission Statement?

Writing your personal mission statement is essential. It is more than your goals and aspirations. As an
adolescent, this will help you identify your priorities and reflect on how you live life leading to the
realization of your goals, be it short-term or long-term. Like a compass, your personal mission
statement becomes your guide and direction which comes from you and not from someone else.Your
personal mission statement shows your awareness and commitment of your life long journey towards
personal development, which is essential in setting career and life goals. There’s no right or wrong
way to formulate a personal mission statement. As much as, there are no limits on what should be
included as part of it. What is important is you write it down and be passionate on its realizations.
The content of your personal mission statement may include:
•Education
•Career
•Personal attributes, such as honesty, loyalty and dedication
•Family and personal relationships
•Lifestyle
•Sports
•Faith and Spirituality
•Community service
Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader 1stedition, Your Personal Mission
Statement: You’re Never Too Young to Clarify Your Life Goals and Aspirations by Joe Villmow(Quezon City: Sunshine
Interlinks Publishing House Inc., 2016), 130.

How to Make a Personal Mission Statement?

1. Identify Some Past Successes. These successes can be personal or professional.

Remembering past successes is beneficial because it helps you reconsider the learnings in the
past and adopt the appropriate strategies necessary for success.
2. Identify Your Core Values. This highlights you’re best personal attributes, values, priorities
and other things you consider important as the heart or motivation of your personal mission, goals
and aspirations.
3. Identify Your Contributions. Make a list of the ways you feel you could make a difference. How
do you believe you can contribute to the society? Identifying your contributions can help you best
understand in what ways you can be of great influence to others.
4. Identify Your Goals. Consider your priorities in life and the goals you have for yourself and for
other people who important to you. Listing your personal goals is valuable in this step. Writing your
personal mission statement should now be easily formulated following the four steps.

Why You Need a Personal Mission Statement?

Personal mission statement is an important guide in personal development. They motivate you to
reflect deeply about your life, its purpose, and identify what is truly important to you. Personal
mission statement also inspires you to express your deepest values and aspirations. It traces your life
values and purposes in your mind so they become a part of you.

Why is a Personal Mission Statement Important?

1. It integrates who you are.
2. It provides focus.
3. It simplifies any decision-making processes.4.It holds you accountable for your decisions and actions.

Writing a personal mission statement gives you sense of direction and responsibility. Personal mission
statement allows you to get to know yourself better and discover your sense of purpose in life.
Rhett Power, “4 Reasons Why You Need a Personal Mission Statement,” February 19, 2016, https://www.inc.com/rhett-power/4-
reasons-why-you-need-a-personal-mission-statement.html

What’s More:
Activity 1.Graphic Organizer
Directions: From the lesson 1, how does each of the following factors influence or affect your
decision in choosing a career? Copy the format of the graphic organizer and fill in the boxes with your
answers. Then answer the processing questions that follow.
Processing Questions:
1. With the different factors affecting your career choice, which among them do you think are
less important and why?

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2. Which of the factors do you consider has great impact to your career choice?

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3. Which of the factors you need more time to work out in order to come up with
a decision on your career options?

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4. What are your realizations after doing the activity?

Activity 2: Bucket List

Direction: Based from your Personal Mission Statement, make a list (as many as you can) of the
things you want to accomplish in your life towards the full realization of your personal/career
development. Arrange them according to your priority and write your insights and reflections on how
important these lists to actualize your personal mission statement. Copy the format below .

My Insights and Reflections

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 What I Have Learned: My Generalization
Directions: Answer the following questions.

1. How does each of the classified job/career/work environments influence or affect your decision in
choosing a career?

2. How important is your personal mission statement to your personal and career development? Discuss
comprehensively

What I Can Do: Documented Interview with Preferred Career

Practitioners

Direction: Write your answers in your journal notebook.

1. Name three (3) jobs/occupations which you feel you would want to have in the future.
Justify how these occupations fit your job personality and work environment types.

2. Do background research about the occupations by actually interviewing individuals who hold such
jobs. Find out the following information from the interview:
•Job Title/Position Title;
•Needed academic preparation;
•Skills, Knowledge, Abilities, expected competencies to succeed in the job;
•Demand for the Job;
•Benefits/Advantages of the Job;
•Difficulties and Challenges; and
•Expected Salary of a person occupying the position.
3. Write a narrative report of the interview you have conducted. Identify and explain your final career
option/choice.

ASSESSMENT:
Multiple Choice. Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the correct answer
in the space provided before each number.
1. People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with object, machines,
tools, plants and animals, or be outdoors.
A. Artistic B. Investigative C. Realistic D. Social
2. People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, prefer to carry things
out in detail or follow through on others’ instructions.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
3. People who like to work with people –influencing, persuading, performing, leading, or
managing for organizational goals or for economic gain.
A. Investigative B. Enterprising C. Social D. Realistic
4. People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems.
.A. Conventional B. Enterprising C. Investigative D. Realistic
5. People who have artistic, innovating, or intuitional abilities, and like to work in
unstructured situations using their imaginations or creativity
. A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
6. People who like to work with people –to inform, enlighten, help, train, develop, or cure them
or are skilled with words.
A. Artistic B. Conventional C. Realistic D. Social
7. An integrated collection of programs and services intended to develop student’score academic,
technical and employability skills; provide them with continuous education, training; and
place them in high-demand, high-opportunity jobs.
A. Career Pathways C. Health and Wellness
B. Guidance and Counseling D. Sports Development
8. This will help sort out priorities in life. It may include short-term and long-term goals or life-
long aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Philosophy in Life
B. Personal Mission Statement D. Vision and Mission
9. It covers activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential,
build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to
the
 realization of dreams and aspirations.
A. Career Development C. Community Development
B. Educational Plan D. Personal Development
10. All are external factors influencing career choices except.
A. Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health
B. Gender, Interest and Personality Type
C. Life Roles, Skills and Abilities, Culture
D. Previous Experiences and Childhood Fantasies
11. Why is personal development an important component of setting career and life goals?
A. Personal development gives judge show right or wrong your career is.
B. Personal development must be attained fully before setting a career.
C. The insights in personal development discriminates your choice of career.
D. The insights in personal development guides your career decision making.
12. Which statement is ideal in the process of making your personal mission statement?
A. All of us make a personal mission statement for the same reason.
B. Personal mission statement clarifies what you want to attain in life.
C. Personal mission statement may not be written.
D. Personal mission statement must have permanent parts.
13. All elements below may be part of the content of your personal mission statement, except one.
A. Education and career C. Personal attribute and values
B. Failures and negative experiences D. Sports and community service
14. All can help you formulate a better personal mission statement, except one.
A. Identify your core values C. Identify your past failures
B. Identify your contributions D. Identify your goals and aspirations
15. In Holland’s hexagon of job personalities, which is a least compatible work environment
of enterprising personality type?
A. Artistic B. Investigative C. Realistic D. Social

Additional Activities
Directions: Do the following activities in your journal notebook.
Activity 1. Make a checklist on your career option.
It’s important to be realistic about your expectations about your career option. Write down all specific
actions you will take to accomplish your goals and help you focus on important matters. Check them
off as you complete them, but feel free to make changes on your career action checklist as needed.
Your goals and priorities may change in the process, and that's perfectly okay.
Activity 2. Meet with a Career Advisor. Your advisors can be any person important to you like your
parents, teachers, guidance counselor, and others who may help you make effective career decisions.
Make an appointment with them and talk about your career options, and then collectively compile
them through a reaction paper stressing your career plan and decision.

RUBRIC FOR ESSAY/REFLECTIONWRITING

CRITERIA DESCRIPTION POINTS POINTS OBTAINED

CONTENT The content was well- 5

thought of; guide
questions were
thoroughly answered

ORGANIZATION The content was 5

organized and well-
written with ideas easily
conveyed to readers.

DEVELOPMENT Content was thoroughly 5

developed

TOTAL: 15

References:

A. Textbook:
 Department of Education.2016. Personal Development. First Edition. Quezon C
 RO-X Self Learning Modules

 Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader

1stedition.What Influences Your Career Choice,?by MelissaVenable. Quezon City: Sunshine
Interlinks Publishing House Inc.,2016.

 Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader

1stedition.Work/Occupational Environments and Interests,by John Holland.Quezon City:
Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House Inc.,2016.

 Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines, Personal Development Reader

1stedition.Your Personal Mission Statement: You’re Never Too Young to Clarify Your Life
Goals and Aspirations, by Joe Villmow. Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House
Inc., 2016.

 Power,Rhett.“4 Reasons Why You Need a Personal Mission Statement.”February 19,

2016.https://www.inc.com/rhett-power/4-reasons-why-you-need-a-personal-mission-
statement.html