PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

S.Y 2021-2022
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

Performance Standard: The learners set a personal career goal based on the results of self-assessment of
various personal and external factors

Content Standard: The learner understands the concepts of career development, life goals, and personal
factors influencing career choices and external factors.

Learning Targets: At the end of the lesson, I can:

1. identify career options based on different factors, career development concepts and personal life
goals

2. explain that understanding different factors, career development concepts and personal life
goals influence career planning and decision making; and

3. prepare a career plan based on the identified career options to attain personal life’s goals.
Learning Content: Persons and Careers

Institutional Values: Competence: Comprehension

Learning Resources/References: DIWA Learning Book for SHS by Ricardo Rubio Santos

I. INTRODUCTION

You spend several years in school preparing for a profession that you dream of. You stud
hard to finish a degree and acquire the knowledge and skills that will make you ready to face th
real world of work. Through this module, you will get to identify your career options and prepa
your own career plan to attain your personal life goals.

II. MOTIVATION
Initial Task: My Interests. Look at the following hobbies or interests, and identify your top 1
by writing numbers 1-10, with 1 being your favorite interest or hobby and 10 being your lea
favorite interest or hobby.

MY INTERESTS

__________Reading __________Travelling
__________Watching movies __________Cooking
__________Playing musical instruments __________Gardening
__________Sports such as basketball __________Listening to music
 __________Dancing __________Drawing
__________Theater or acting __________Collecting items
__________Playing computer __________Painting
III. INSTRUCTIONAL/DELIVERY

Careers and Life Goals

You spend several years in school preparing for a profession or career that you dream of. You
study to acquire the knowledge, the skills, and the right attitudes and values that will make you
ready in the world of work. You plan and prepare for a career. Career is sometimes interchangeably
used with the word occupation, which is something that allows you to use your knowledge, skills,
potentials, or abilities acquired and developed through your formal training at school.
Career development is an important aspect in your life’s journey because you will spend
bigger part of your life in your career. Career growth or development is a process through which
your distinct characteristics for work are formed. It follows a pattern or a cycle where an individual
attempts to find a match between the self and the requirements of a job or a career. Its goal is
continuously developing the person and be employed after completion of an academic training or
formal education. Thus, career development is aimed at achieving a fit between the person’s
characteristics (which includes personality traits, attitudes, values, needs, and interests) and work.

Personal Mission Statement

To develop your career and be prepared for the world of work, you must know your personal
mission in life, or the reason that you are doing all the things you do every day. Clarity of purpose is
important. So, you should know what you can from life and how you intend to do or accomplish your
goals. Our personal mission statements include our purpose and principles in life. It answers the
following questions:
-What do I want from life? -What do I believe or value in life?
-Where do I want to go? -How do I get there?
Having a clear direction in life is necessary to achieve your final destination. As such, clarifying your
life goals is important. You should be able to identify the steps on how to become the person that
you want to be, and the values or principles that guide you toward the accomplishment of such
goal. However, life is not always smooth sailing; there may be ups and downs, and emotions might
affect your disposition to reach your goals. Hence, being proactive – your ability to look at the
positive side of every experience – may help.

Personal Factors Influencing Career Choices

There are several factors that influence your choices of career. These include your
personality, attitudes, values, skills, interest, and needs. Let us look at these factors one by one.

1. Personality. Personality may include your traits or characteristics. Your personality affects
the way you do your work. There are careers that require certain personality traits. For example,
extrovert people (i.e., those who are sociable or outgoing) may fit into a type of work that requires
people skills such as marketing, sales, or entertainment. While those who are introvert (i.e., those
who prefer quiet type of work) may fit into jobs such as research, bookkeeping, and computer-
related work.
Each of us is unique. Personality traits are characteristics that make us unique or different from
others. Hence, personality development is important for career success. Your career choice should
also match your personality traits.

2. Values. Your values are the principles or standards that guide you in making choices and
decisions in life. The totality of what you value in life makes up your value system. What is
acceptable for you may not be acceptable for others because of your value system. For example,
because you value time with your family, you go home early and eat dinner, thus, we say “no” to
other activities that might affect your time or decisions we make. Thus, it is important to know your
values. One way of knowing our values is by identifying the factors you consider important.

3. Interests. Interests or preferences are activities that you enjoy doing. These may include
your likes or dislikes, or the things that motivate you. When your work is aligned with your interests,
you will find your work exciting and challenging. For example, if your interest is reading, you may
find research work very appealing; so, doing research tasks may be a lot easier for you.

4. Skills. Skills include your abilities or proficiencies that have been developed through
training or formal education. Skills are what you are good at. Skills may be grouped as technical
skills or soft skills. Technical skills include your knowledge of theories and your capability to put
into practice the theories that you learned in the class. it consists of our capacity to perform specific
and operational tasks related to a job. Examples of technical skills are your ability to assemble parts
of a gadget such as cellular phone and your ability to compute the expenses of the organization and
create a bookkeeping record.
Soft skills or functional skills are proficiencies that enable you to stand out with
employers when you apply for work or change your career. Soft skills will help you move flexible at
different stages of your career. These skills include the following: communication skills, which is the
ability to convey thoughts, ideas and feelings; teamwork, which is the ability to work collaboratively
with others; organization, which is the ability to put things in order; problem solving, which is the
ability to find creative solutions to problems; writing, which is the capacity to express thoughts or
ideas in written forms; and planning, which is the ability to prepare ahead of time for a certain
project.

5. Attitudes. Attitudes are also essential factors in career development success. It is

described as how you view situations or things around you. Sometimes, an attitude is described as
the predisposition or the tendency to act or behave in a certain way. Attitudes have 3 components:
(1) cognition, or your set of beliefs or perceptions; (2) affects, or how you feel about certain
situations (affects are generated by the kind of belief or thoughts that you have about certain
situations or things); and (3) behavior, or actions caused by the way you think and how you feel.
Most employers would not just look at a job applicant’s educational background but also his
or her attitude. To illustrate, you were given a difficult project: you can view this task as a challenge
to further develop your skills or abilities, or you can look at it as your teacher’s way of assigning
more burdensome tasks to students. Hence, your actions are dependent on how you view the
project. If you see it in a positive way, you feel excited, and you will not easily give in to the
difficulties. You exert a lot of effort to produce a quality output.

Personality Traits and Career Options

Personality traits or characteristics are your essential qualities that make you different or
unique. Certain personality traits may actually match certain careers because individuals would look
for a working environment where they can exercise their skills or abilities and where they can
express their values and attitudes. According to the psychologist John Holland, personalities may be
classified into six types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. A
combination of these traits may be observed in the individual’s job (Sta. Maria, 2009). Holland (Niles
and Harris-Bowlsby, 2009) described these six personality types.

1. Realistic Type
People with realistic personality types enjoy activities where they can create and
manipulate things by using their hands. They have mechanical abilities and prefer automobile and
mechanic, aircraft control, surveying, farming, electrical, and electronic activities. They are usually
described as persistent, practical, genuine, conforming, hardheaded, shy, and frank.

2. Investigative Type
People with this personality type prefer occupations that focus on scientific endeavors.
They like activities that require observation, analysis, and creative investigation; thus, they prefer
jobs such as a biologist, chemist, physicist, medical technologist, surgeon, research analyst,
mathematician, or statistician. They are usually described as analytical, independent, introvert,
rational, methodical, curious, and reserved.

3. Artistic Type
People with this personality type usually prefer activities that are free, unsystematic
and creative. They enjoy activities where they can express freedom and originality; thus, they
prefer to work as being a stage designer, orchestra member, composer, musician, interior designer,
writer, fashion model, fashion designer, photographer, or actor, just to name a few. They are usually
described as imaginative, emotional, nonconforming, expressive, independent, open, idealistic, and
original.
 4. Social Type
People with this personality type prefer activities that will help others to develop and
be enlightened. They are concerned about the welfare of others and are competent in dealing with
people. These people enjoy jobs such as being a teacher, counselor, social worker, trainer,
psychologist, therapist, coordinator, librarian, and foreign service officer. They are usually described
as convincing, responsible, patient, helpful, understanding, cooperative, friendly, kind, and
sympathetic.

5. Enterprising Type
People with this personality type prefer activities that influence or convince others to
achieve organization and economic growth. This preference allows them to acquire leadership,
interpersonal, and persuasive skills. Thus, they like jobs such as being a businessman, salesman,
sports promoter, television or radio announcer, insurance manager, human resource officer, banker,
real estate appraiser, and lawyer. They are usually described as enthusiastic, energetic, pleasure-
seeking, domineering, acquisitive, ambitious, extrovert, impulsive, self-confident, adventurous, and
popular.

6. Conventional Type
People with this personality type prefer activities that are structured and orderly. They
enjoy activities that are accurate; they keep very organized records. Thus, they like jobs such as
being a bookkeeper, accountant, secretary, data processing worker, proofreader, financial analyst,
banker, auditor, library assistant, and credit manager. They are usually described as thrifty,
efficient, careful, orderly, conforming, inhibited, conscientious, and obedient.

IV. PRACTICE
Activity 1: Identifying Values. Take a look at the values on the left side of the table, and then
choose 10 that you consider the most important values by checking the cells in the middle column.
Choose 10 values, and rank them, with 1 as the highest value.

IDENTIFYING VALUES
 VALUES YOUR CHOSEN 10 VALUES RANK

Time with family

Relationship with peers

Physical appearance

Good grades

Helping others

Community activities

Extracurricular activities

Commitment

Fairness

Religious activities

Stability

Teamwork

Recognition

Love

Achievement

Independence

Peers

Openness

Respect

V. ENRICHMENT
Activity 2: Personality Type. Identify which personality type is described by each situation.

_____________________1. Tina is very organized in doing her job. She keeps her files in order and
strictly follows deadlines. Also, she finds it difficult to concentrate in her work area is messy.

_____________________2. Ivan is good at expressing his thoughts and feelings through verbal
communication. Hence, when he ran as the student council president and presented his platform,
he convinced the audience about his good intentions of promoting student welfare. As such he won
in the election.

_____________________3. Adora is very compassionate. She spends time listening to people. She also
consults her guidance counselor for advice. As such, her friends would normally run to her
whenever they experience difficulties or problems.

_____________________4. Filemon seldom speaks, but he is very creative and imaginative. He

expresses his feelings and ideas through arts. Whenever he feels sad, he draws or paints.

_____________________5. Gwen is persistent and practical. He enjoys assembling objects and would
usually explore how electronic devices function. So, whenever appliances at home break down, he
patiently diagnoses them and performs troubleshooting.

VI. EVALUATION

My Road Map to Success

  In a 1/8 Illustration board, create your own Road Map to Success.
 Date of Submission of Roadmap: DECEMBER 6, 2021 (Monday)

Instructions:
1. Define your goals. The reason that you were asked to write down your goals is to have a clear definition of what you
would like to happen in your life. When you write your goal, you have to be committed toward its realization. You also need
to make sure that your goal has the following characteristics: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time bound.
2. Set a target date. To reach a goal, deadlines or targets must be set. You have to make sure that your date is realistic.
3. Be creative in making your output. You can employ designs in making your Road Map. Don’t copy the example given.

Rubric for Road Map:

Content – 25 points.
Creativity/Originality – 15 points
Neatness – 10 points
TOTAL: 50 POINTS

Example of Road Map to Success:

VII. CLOSURE
Reflect on the scriptures below and write your reflection on the space provided below.

Isaiah 40:31
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength; they will fly up on wings like eagles; they will
run and not be tired; they will walk and not be weary.”
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