CAREER GUIDANCE

Rising Toward the Reality

of My Dreams
Introduction
This module is about helping the learners identify
the skills and abilities that will help them determine
the most realistic profession and career for them.
The learners’ knowledge of their skills and abilities
will enable them to make career decisions that
match their potentials and expertise. Facilitating the
learners’ skills assessment will aid them in making
career choices that will empower them to maximize
the available local and foreign opportunities after
they exit from the senior high school curriculum.
Materials
 paper and pen
 carton box/bowl
 scissors
 manila paper
 colored paper/construction paper
 copies of skills-based resume
 copies of Career Progression Sheet
 copies of Self-Assessment Skills Inventory
I. Objectives
At the end of this module, the learners are
expected to:
1. identify the qualifications, abilities, and skills
necessary in the preferred profession, and
vocation;
2. make a decision about the preferred career;
and
3. share insights and experiences on the
process of choosing the preferred profession or
career.
Activities
1. Activity on identifying skills whether “hard” or “soft”
(Motivation)
2. Completing a Career Progression Sheet (Main
Activity)
3. Exploring Skills, Abilities, Interests, and Values
(Lecturette)
4. Self-Assessment Skills Inventory/Writing a Resume
(Application)
5. Reflective questions about written resume
(Reflection)
6. Elevator Pitch (Evaluation)
II. Motivation (10 minutes)
Note: Check if learners were able to do their
assignment of interviewing professionals. Ask some
volunteers to share information they gathered,
specifically on the qualifications required of the
professions of the people they interviewed.
Prior to the activity, prepare the following:
1. List of soft skills encoded or written on yellow
colored paper or construction paper.
2. Provide spaces in between the skills for cutting.
3. Do the same with the hard skills, on a blue colored
paper or construction paper.
Soft Skills
 Teamwork
 Listening
 Honesty
 Flexibility
 Open mindedness
 Good decision making
 Interpersonal relations skills

 Dependability
 Enjoying challenge
 Calmness, Warmth
 Leadership Skills
 Service-orientedness
 Encouraging
 Resiliency

Hard Skills
 Multi-tasking
 Computer programming
 Hair dressing
 Artistic
 Plays different sports
 Driving
 Bartending
 Culinary Skills
 Assembling
 Repair
 Carpentry
 Interior Designing
 Machine work
 Gardening/Agriculture
 Computing
 Tabulating
 Checking
 Analyzing
 Communication Skills
 Directions
 1. Assign one learner to act as the “It.”
 2. Give the mechanics of the activity.
 Mechanics
  All learners will form one big circle including the It. There should be no extra seats aside
from those occupied by the learners.
  The It will hold the box containing the list of skills. Then, he will ask a learner from the circle
to pick a paper from the box. The It will read the skill on the paper and ask the learner if
he/she possesses such skill.

 Example: Multi-tasking…is this your skill?

 If the answer is Yes, everybody will stand and move to the next seat on their left.
 If the answer is No, everybody, including the It will stand and find a seat across the circle.
The learner who cannot get a seat becomes the new It.
 To add perk to the response, the learner who is called by the It is instructed to say “Yes na
Yes” if the answer is affirmative. If the answer is negative, learner answers “Oh no, I don’t
have it!”
  For every skill picked, ask learners: “In what profession is the skill useful?” Gather
responses.
  Do the next round using the same procedure.
Guide Questions
1. What did you feel while doing the activity?
2. How did this activity help you determine
the skills that you need in the workplace?
3. How will the identified skills prepare you
in your preferred profession, vocation, and
future?
4. What other insights do you have from this
activity?
III. Main Activity (20 minutes)
Procedure
1. Group together those with the same field/cluster
preferences, based on the choices they made as
reflected in the previous modules. Have each cluster
sit in a circle.
2. Assure the learners that they are on the right track
toward attaining their dream careers but that they
need to understand the skills and qualifications
required.
3. Provide each group a copy of the “Career
Progression Sheet.”
 Career Progression Sheet
INNOVE HIRING PROGRAM
 INNOVE, a new player in the energy industry, offers job openings to senior
high school graduates in your province. Its Human Resource Department
manager announced that there are 180 vacancies available for application: 30
researchers, 50 junior clerks, 60 encoders, 30 graphic designers, and 10
company physical fitness coaches.
 The important qualifications to consider are the following:
a. Must be a Senior High School graduate
b. Must possess the relevant qualifications, skills, and abilities called for by the
job
c. Willing to work under pressure
d. Must possess good communication skills and can work with less supervision
e. Willing to be assigned in other provinces

Interested and qualified applicants must submit a resume addressed to John T.

Loewy, INNOVE President, thru the Human Resource Manager Jeanie R. Nana.
Task

1. The leader of each cluster will read the content of

the Career Progression Sheet to their group
members.
2. The leader will encourage each member of the
group to tell the skills and abilities they possess that
coincide with their chosen career. Assign a group
secretary to note down the sharing of each member.
3. After the discussion, the secretary will read to the
class the list of strengths, skills, and abilities
mentioned in the sharing.
Guide Questions

Do the skills and abilities that you possess fit

into the requirements stated in the Career
Progression Sheet?
Based on the skills and abilities you believe you
possess, what position best fits you? Does this
complement with the career you want to pursue?
What are your insights or realizations about the
activity?
IV. Lecturette (20 minutes)

Examining one’s life is an important prelude to

success. Socrates once said that an unexamined life
is not worth living. Hence, in making a career decision,
a process of self-introspection is essential. It is all
about exploring and assessing one’s skills, interests,
abilities, and values, and combining these to result in
a satisfying life and career in the future.
Such self-introspection is essential because the most
important thing in the field of human resource today is
the inner totality of a person. Consider the following
scenarios.
Scenario 1
Andrew and Maynard work in the same company as
senior computer specialists. Andrew does his work
efficiently and effectively. However, he gets irritated
when the manager asks him to revise a work or
mentor a new employee. Others try to avoid him
because of this. Maynard, on the other hand, is less
than a year in the company but already has good
rapport with majority of the employees. When others
or the manager comments on his work, he humbly
accepts and tries to adjust accordingly.
If you were the manager of the company, who would
you prefer to be promoted and why?
Scenario 2
Nicole was very happy because she was
able to put up a small restaurant in their
community. Her customers grew in number
and they kept coming back because they like
the service aside from the cheap but
delicious food. One customer suggested that
Nicole market her business through social
media. She wondered how she would do that
since she is not familiar with social media
applications.
The scenarios presented support the trend that
employers prefer to hire applicants primarily based on
attitude rather than aptitude. Many industries,
employers, and human resource managers share the
same perspective in hiring new employees. It also
shows that technical skills are essential in operating a
business.
The success of a company includes commitment, focus
on the job, humility, and industry of its employees.
Studies regarding hiring methodologies established
facts that skilled and experienced employees with
negative attitude and perspective fail quickly while the
lesser experienced ones with excellent attitudes
succeed better in the long run (Toren, 2015).
Wherever you go, you carry your attitude with
you. So it is important to be aware about the
totality of your persons as future workers in
different industries and other workplaces,
including the skills that you possess―those that
need to be developed and those that need to be
improved. By doing so, you will be tailored to
become competent employees in today’s industry
preferences, and eventually become best
managers in the future. One who plans to venture
into enterprising activity must also consider these
skills as human resources will play a critical part
in the success of the business organization.
There are two major classifications of skills
(Doyle, 2016)―hard skills and soft skills.
Hard skills refer to the functional abilities and are
generally taught and learned in school, from
experience, and from reading books and are
evaluated through levels of competencies. A
concrete example of this is one’s speed in
producing work outputs. It also applies to the
number or kind of machines a person can operate.
These skills are constant across work settings,
situations, and workers, which are acquired over
time.
Examples of hard skills are the
following:
1. encoding
2. machine operation
3. heavy equipment operation
4. carpentry
5. computer programming
6. analyzing
7. computing
Soft skills refer to the personal
characteristics and traits of an individual
and which are not measurable. Over time
and with a positive mindset, these can be
developed and enhanced through various
opportunities such as values formation and
team building. However, the employee
himself/herself should have the “will” and
the right attitude to make the necessary
adjustment in order to build on these values
and traits.
Examples of soft skills are as the following:
1. teamwork
2. communication
3. flexibility
4. patience
5. persuasion
6. time management
7. perseverance
8. decision making
9. honesty
10. humility
Your career should be a platform for you to forward
your best skills, knowledge about self, and your
abilities. Developing and improving your hard skills
and creating a balance of your soft skills will not only
ensure a promising career, but a healthy, meaningful,
and happy life.
In as much as skills are important in the world of work
and the business industry, consider also the job
qualifications relevant to your career preferences.
These are basic requirements entailed by a certain job
that also include work experience, personal qualities,
lines of expertise, and educational credentials.
Sample qualifications for specific careers are included
in Appendix 15 for reference.
Note:
1. Provide students with a copy of the sample
qualifications required for a job

(Appendix 15).
2. For additional resources on job qualifications, you
may visit the following links: http://work.chron.com/job-
qualification-examples-12829.html,
http://info.dogpile.com, www.dole.gov.ph
Guide Questions

1. Are you aware about your hard skills?

your soft skills?
2. Are these skills relevant to the career you
want to pursue?
3. What do you intend to do with the skills
that you do not possess or are not yet
prominent in you?
4. Do you think you are on the right track
about your career goal? Why?
V. Application (15 minutes)
Task 1
1. Distribute copy of “Self-Assessment Skills Inventory”
sheets to students (Appendix 16).
2. Tell students to write the hard and soft skills that they
possess, including their interests and qualifications.
3. Collect the completed sheets for compilation in the
students’ portfolio. These will be available as ready
reference by the Guidance Counselor/Career Advocate
for career counseling and for other related purposes.
 Self Assessment Skills Inventory (SASI)
Name:
Chosen Profession/Career:
SKILLS INTEREST QUALIFICATIONS

Hard Skills Soft Skills

Task 2
“I-Resume” – Individual Resume Writing
A resume is a powerful tool that markets an
applicant’s skills, strengths, and competencies
to prospective employers. It provides brief, yet
substantive information about how the applicant
can contribute to a company or organization.
In this activity, students will package
themselves for employment purposes, applying
their significant learning in the activities of the
previous session.
Procedure
1. Discuss briefly the importance and the
parts of a skills-based resume. Give them
a sample copy of a resume as their guide.
2. Guide the learners in making their own
skills-based resumes.
3. Let them recall what they wrote in
SASI—their different skills, interests, and
qualifications—which they could use to
construct their resume.
Read to the learners the importance of a resume
as summed up the article “How to Write a
Resume.”
Think of your resume this way: It is a means to
advertise yourself as to what you can offer to an
organizational setting. Remember that your goal is
to be qualified for interview for a prospective job.
To do this, you must view your resume as a
marketing tool to move you closer to your dreams.
Therefore, you need to see it as your marketing
tool. However, the resume alone, is not the sole
factor to land a job. The point is, it’s a first step
that you need to master with competencies.
Sample of a Skills-based Resume
Kyle Velasco
135 Sonny St. Brgy. Bitoon, Province of Bontoc
Cell # 09090403112
Education
Senior High School Graduate – Science and Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
strand. School: Stella Mariz College, Bontoc, School Year ___________
Training and Leadership Skills
 Can perform various computer program functions, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft
Excel, Microsoft Publisher, Corel Draw
 Fluent in written and oral communication using the English language, Filipino, and Sadanga,
Ilocano
 Can work under pressure and task challenges
 Willing to work overtime when needed
 Can work and formulate decisions with little supervision
 Receptive of others’ suggestions and opinions
 Able to work and adjust in working with others

 Organizational Affiliation
 Math Club—as Public Information Officer, links with other clubs and organizations and
disseminates relevant information to club members
 Supreme Student Government—as member, actively supported all initiated in-campus and
off-campus programs and projects
VI. Reflection (10 minutes)
The learners’ experience in writing their resume is one of
the major trainings in marketing themselves to potential
industries. Allow them to share their major learning from
the activity by asking the following questions. Have them
write their answers in their journal.
1. What interest, skills, and qualification for your chosen
career were you able to identify as you were writing your
resume?
2. What did you feel while preparing your resume?
3. How will this help you in your chosen career?
4. Do you think your resume will pass the requirements
needed for your job? Why?
VII. Evaluation (15 minutes)
Elevator Pitch
It is essential for 21st century learners to be
aware and confident in knowing and developing
their skills, talents, and abilities as these shall be
translated into future jobs and opportunities. In
today’s set up of job interviews, job fair is
common in the Philippines and it is vital that
learners are equipped with the knowledge and
skills necessary for this endeavor. They should
know and be confident to present their best
introduction as to who they are and what they
can do best in the shortest possible time.
Procedure
1. Introduce the elevator pitch interview,
which has to be executed in 30 seconds.
The learner will act as the resource
manager and another, the interviewee.
2. The interviewee will present his/her
skills, abilities, and qualifications in an oral
form as brief as it can be to the human
resource manager.
Guide questions in formulating the
Elevator Pitch (Speech)
1. What do you do best? (Skills)

Learner should be able to identify and articulate for

himself/herself and to a potential interviewer what
he/she can do best.
Example:
I am articulate in written and oral communication.
My expertise is in hairdressing.
I am currently an active member of the Supreme
Student Government.
2. What characteristics best describe
you?
Example:
I am a good listener and I value people.
I learn fast and I can finish a task
independently.
I am a good team player and believe I am
an asset to the company.
3. What do you enjoy doing?
Example:
I am interested in manipulating
computers. I like solving mathematical
problems.
I like to study about nature.
4. What is your purpose for applying for
work?
Example:
This job is an opportunity for me to share
and further enhance my skills in designing.
I am inspired by the assistance your
company is offering to the less fortunate yet
deserving students
 Sample of Elevator Pitch (Speech): 30 seconds
Sir, good morning po!
Ako po si Elize Reyes, nagtapos ng Senior High School sa Elijah
National High School sa strand na HUMMS. Mahusay po ako sa
pagsusulat ng mga report at mga opisyal na pakikipagtalastasan sa
Ingles, Filipino, at Cebuano. May kasanayan din ako sa paggamit ng
kompyuter.
Ang pinakamalakas kong katangian ay ang aking kahusayan sa
pakikitungo sa tao. Naging daan ito sa aking pagbuo ng mga
programa para sa mga kabataan sa aming komunidad. May
karanasan na ako sa pakikipag-ugnayan sa iba’t ibang ahensiya na
may kaugnayan sa paglilinang ng kaisipan at kasanayan ng mga
kabataan. Ilan sa mga ito ay ang camping at retreats. Sa
pamamagitan ng mga ito ay naibabahagi ko sa kanila ang aking mga
naging karanasan na gagabay sa kanilang paghahanda tungo sa
mabungang kinabukasan upang sila ay patuloy na maging
responsableng mamamayan.
1. Call on volunteers to present his/her
elevator pitch speech.
2. Tell the class, “Based on the presentation,
let’s give him/her a two thumbs-up and say
Hired!” Teacher makes a pointing and thumbs-
up gesture to the presenter.
Note: Discuss the reality that some applicants may be denied but
that they can apply in other establishments or venture into other
enterprising activities depending on what suits their qualifications,
skills, and abilities.
Guide Questions
1. How did you feel when you were asked to present yourself?
2. In what way did this activity help you to make plans and prepare
for the future?
3. With your skills and abilities, what can you contribute to your
country five to ten years from now?

Note: Play the song “Pinoy Ako” by Orange and Lemons. Let
students form a big circle and hold hands together while singing the
song with appreciation to Filipinos who bring pride to the country.
Come up with alternative strategies in the absence of electricity or
player