Career Development

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Career Development
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Beginning of Career Choice

• Career choice begin early
• Personal experience
• Watching parents/neighbours
• Adult conversation
• Role Play
• Temporary/part-time work
• Early experience ? adolescent learn ? will
  continue developing career towards their
  interest.
• However ? career choice may change with
  maturity.

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Stages in Career Development

• Since the age of 10 ? a child stars to think
  what they want to be when they grow up ? will
  continue until 24 yrs old.
• Pre adolescent period? Career choice are based
  on
• Fantasy/Dream
• Excitement/Adventure
• Not on their ability

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Stages in Career Development

• Early middle adolescent ? choice of career
  change according to their interest, ability and
  their values.
• Late adolescent early adult ? able to make a
  correct choice according to own ability,
  experience and knowledge.
• Choice of career are more clearer and
  establish after succeeded entering
  college/higher learning institutions.

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Theories
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Theories in Career Choice/Development

• Ginzberg
• Holland

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Ginzbergs Career Choice Theory

• Ginzberg (1972) suggested 3 stages people move
  through in choosing a career.
• Fantasy (11 below)
• Tentative (11-17 yrs. old)
• Realistic (17/18 above)

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Stage 1 Fantasy

• Choice of career (ambitions) are made based
  on
• Excitement interesting
• Emotions not practicality
• Child perceptions
• Fantasy period the period of life when
  career choices are made and discarded without
  regard to skills, abilities, or available job
  opportunities

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Stage 2 Tentative

• Focus ? on self
• Career choice based on 4 aspects
• Interest (11-12 years old)
• Capasity (13-14 years old)
• Values (15-16 years old)
• Transition (16-17 years old)
• Early adolescent ? interest play a major role
  but as they grow older ? more matured ? start
  thinking about their ability.
• Integration between interest and ability ? from
  the value system.
• Tentative period- the second stage which spans
  adolescence, in which people begin to think in
  pragmatic terms about the requirements of various
  jobs and how their own abilities might fit with
  those requirements

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Stage 3 Realistic

• Focus? on career opportunity and market demand.
  
• Starts reviewing their aspiration, needs
  interest, their ability and occupational work
  demand.
• Choice are also made based on
• Experience achievement so far.
• Family influences
• Personal job influence
• Realistic period the stage in late adolescence
  and early adulthood during which people can
  explore career options through job experience or
  training, narrow their choices, and eventually
  make a commitment to career

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John Holland Theory of Career Choice
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John Holland Personality Type Theory

• According to Holland (1959)
• Individual personality influences a person
  choice of career .
• 6 types of basic personaliti ? 6 types of basic
  occupations
• Only certain types of occupation suits a
  specific personality.

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John Holland Theory of Career Choice

• Personalities basic environment
• Realistic
• Investigative
• Conventional
• Enterprising
• Artistic
• Social

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John Holland Theory of Career Choice

• Realistic down-to earth, practical problem
  solvers, physically strong, mediocre social
  skills
• Intellectual/Investigative theoretical and
  abstract orientation, not particularly good with
  people
• Conventional prefer highly structured tasks
• Enterprising risk takers and take-charge types,
  good leaders
• Artistic use art to express themselves and
  prefer the world of art to interactions with
  people
• Social verbal skills and interpersonal
  relations are strong, good at working with people

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John Holland Theory of Career Choice

• Realistic
• Investigative
• Conventional
• Enterprising
• Artistic
• Social

YOUR Type of PERSONALITY

• Realistic
• Investigative
• Conventional
• Enterprising
• Artistic
• Social

Type of Suitable JOB environment
Potential to succeed
Suits
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Investigative/Intellectual

• Like to investigate ? suitable to an abstract
  type of occupation, intellectual and
  scientific.
• Not interested in Enterprising type of work

• Individual Characteristic
• Clever
• Analytical
• Independent
• Rasional
• Curious

• Type of Occupation
• Mathematicians
• Chemist
• Biologist
• Physicist

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Realistic

• Prefer job in an objective environment ? does
  not involve good communication skills,
  involves physical related to technical and
  farming.
• Fav. type of work characteristics ? relate to
  machine, equipment, nature athletic.
• Not interested in work related to Social

• Type of Occupation
• Mechanic
• Rangers
• Carpenter
• Farmers
• Contracters
• athletics

• Individual Characteristic
• Mechanical
• Aggresive
• Strong/athletic
• Stuborn
• Stern

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Convensional

• Career choice ? involve community support but
  does not involve lot of thinking? Suitable in
  concrete and predictable envirobnment. Prefer
  routine and structural type of work.
• Not interested in artistic type of work

• Individual Characteristic
• Specific/precise
• Ordarly
• Practical
• Effisyen
• Careful

• Type of Occupation
• Accountant
• Proof-reader
• Statistician
• Secretary

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Enterprising

• Suitable in an adventurous, energizing and
  challenging work environment. Have an empowering
  and extrovert personality, and loves power.
• Not interested in realistic type of work

• Type of Occupation
• Sales person
• Politician
• Businessman
• Legal/law
• Evangelism

• Individual Characteristic
• Coherent
• Agresive
• Ambitious
• Confidence
• Controlling

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Artistic

• Suitable in an artistic ? arts and designing
  environment ? able to express their creativity.
• Not interested in conventional type of work.

• Type of Occupation
• Musician
• Artist/sculpture
• Dancer/singer
• Acting
• Others ? related to art

• Individual Characteristic
• Independent
• Creative
• Non-conformist
• Abstract
• Idealistic

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Social

• Prefer job related to the social,
  administrative or treating environment. ?
  ability in communication and interpersonal
  relationship.
• Not interested in realistic type of
  occupation.

• Type of Occupation
• Teaching
• Counselor
• Social work
• Psychologist/ psychiatrist
• Nurse/doctor

• Individual Characteristic
• Cooperative
• Tolerant
• Social
• Empathy
• Understanding