GRADE
12
CAREER GUIDANCE
MODULE 8
Ready to Take Off!
Objectives:
- Identify lifelong learning strategies to grow in a chosen career.
- Create a Lifelong Learning Plan
- Express love and passion to one’s chosen career.
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Lifelong Learning Strategies
Now that you are very certain about your preferred life and career, you might
wonder, what is next after landing on your dream job or getting your desired
profession or vocation? Learning should never stop once you became employed, you
need to continuously improve and undergo lifelong learning activities that can help
you grow in your chosen profession and reach your ultimate career goal.
Lifelong learning is composed of different strategies or activities that can
help you continuously improve with your knowledge, skills and other competencies
that are important in your life and career.
Lifelong learning strategies include, but not limited to, the following
activities:
1. Graduate school programs
2. Adult learning courses and/or distance education programs
3. On-campus training events (seminars, workshops, special speakers, etc.)
4. Off-campus conferences, conventions, and workshops
5. A personal structured reading plan focused on a particular area of
development
6. On-line webinars
7. Mentoring or coaching
8. An in-house action research project.
9. Social networking
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It is a human nature to desire progress. According to Victor Lipman of
Forbes, the possibility for career advancement is an “especially powerful” job
motivator. Writing a plan on how you want to progress in your career will give you
a clear path on how you can grow in your chosen life and career.
Lifelong Learning Plan is a written plan that will serve as a road map to your
voluntary, ongoing and self-motivated pursuit of development for either personal or
professional growth.
Three Aspects of Lifelong Learning Plan
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Guide Questions:
1. What are the different lifelong learning activities that you can undergo to
continuously grow in your chosen life and career?
2. Why do you think it is necessary to conduct Career Gap Analysis in creating
your Lifelong Learning Plan
3. What is Lifelong Learning Plan? How can it help you as a graduating
student?
Application
The Life Learning Plan
Directions:
1. Start by identifying your areas of improvement. After being employed or
hired in your desired profession or vocation, you can still advance to that
career and aspire to reach a certain status. The initial step is to identify
areas of improvement in knowledge, skills, competencies, and values that
you need to prioritize in achieving your career goal.
This is called as the Career Gap Analysis, wherein you will compare your
current situation to career goals, then describe what you need to accomplish
to achieve it.
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2. Set objectives based on your gap analysis. Restate your gap description into
objectives. Remember that goals and objectives must be SMART, meaning
specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Below is how
you should restate a gap description into objectives:
3. Write your plan to bridge the gap. Now, let us work with the main part of
your Lifelong Learning Plan. The objectives that you set will close the gap in
your career progression. However, to ensure the accomplishment of these
objectives, you need to identify lifelong learning activities, key persons and
resources involved in achieving your career goals.
