The Road to

the Right
Choice
Grade 11 – Career Guidance
Program
Module 1
Objectives
At the end of this module, you are expected to:

1. enumerate the different professions and life

choices;

2. explain the different factors affecting the choices

in life and profession; and

3. appreciate the factors in choosing a profession.

Activity 1: Ang Sikreto sa
Tagumpay ni Selina
Watch the following video titled,
“Ang Sikreto sa Tagumpay ni
Selina.” Afterwards, reflect on
the story and answer the guide
questions.
Activity 1: Ang Sikreto sa
Tagumpay ni Selina

What does the story tell about?

According to the story, what factors affected

the career choices of the character in the
story?
How did these factors help the character in
her choice of career?
Activity 1: Ang Sikreto sa
Tagumpay ni Selina

As a student in senior high school,

will you also consider these factors?
Considering these factors, do you
think you will make a good choice of
career? Why?
Factors Affecting Career and
Life Options
“I am convinced that every effort must be made
in childhood to teach the young to use their own
minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up
their minds, someone will do it for them.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt
(You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling
Life)
Factors Affecting Career and
Life Options
What or who influenced your choice of
senior high school track and strand
―was it your personal decision? your
parent’s decision? because of pressure
from friends?
Factors Affecting Career and
Life Options
Life is a choice. Our choices are influenced by different
factors ― personal, family, or social. These influences are
unique in every individual and dependent upon the
situation the individual is in at that time the choice was
made.
Personal Factors

Skills and Abilities.

• Are you aware of your skills and abilities? Do you

know what you are capable of doing? When
individuals are in jobs best suited to their
abilities, they perform best and their productivity
is highest. Parson's Trait and Factor Theory of
Occupational Choice emphasized the
importance of analyzing one’s skills, values,
interests, and personality and then match these
up to jobs which use these.
Personal Factors

Interest and Personality Types.

• Do you know your interests and personality type?

Holland's Career Typology established a
classification system that matches personality
characteristics and personal preferences to job
characteristics. According to John Holland's theory,
most people are one of six personality types: realistic,
investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and
conventional. Knowing your personality will help you
understand yourself. It matters that your personality
fits your career choice.
Personal Factors

Life Roles.

• What do you think is your role in life―a leader?

an organizer? a mediator? a designer?
According to Super's Lifespan Theory, how we
think about ourselves in these roles, their
requirements of them, and the external forces
that affect them, may influence how we look at
careers in general and how we make choices
for ourselves.
Personal Factors
Previous Experiences.

• Did you think of pursuing a task which you have been

successful in the past? One aspect of the Social
Cognitive Career Theory addresses the fact that we are
likely to consider continuing a particular task if we have
had a positive
Personal Factors

Childhood Fantasies.

• “What do you want to be when you grow-up?”

Perhaps this frequently asked question during our
childhood years may have helped shape what we
thought we would be then, as well as later in life.
Family Factors
Parental Influence.

• How many percent of your career decision is influenced by your

parents? Many children grow up idealizing the professions of their
parents. Parents may intentionally or unintentionally push their
child towards a particular career path, especially in the cases of
family-owned businesses where parents expect their children to
take over the company. Still other parents apply pressure on their
offspring to strive for particular high-profile careers, feeling they
are encouraging their children to reach high. If your parents were
uneducated or were always struggling to get by financially, you
may decide not to be in the same position. This may prompt you to
pursue a totally different career path―to have a stable, high-
earning job. Likewise, if you have parents who are workaholics and
were never around when you were a child, you may decide to
pursue a line of work with flexibility that gives you more time with
your children.
Family Factors

Financial Resources.

• In choosing a career or profession, there is a need to

consider the capability to support the course or career
to be pursued. Social Cognitive Career Theory and
Social Learning address this and recognize that events
that take place in our lives may affect the choices
available to us and even dictate our choices to a certain
degree. When your family has limited financial
resources for instance, will you insist on pursuing
medicine? Or would you rather take up other related
courses first and pursue medicine when you are capable
of shouldering the expenses yourself?
Family Factors
Family Beliefs and
Traditions.
• Beliefs and traditions is another family
factor to consider when making a career
choice. It is tradition for example that all
male siblings in the clan take up
engineering courses. Being a family
tradition, this could somehow be
relevant when making a career choice.
Social Factors

Influence of
Media/Technology.
• The influence of social media may have
positive and negative effects.
Nowadays, career information is
available to 21st century learners.
These information may be used or may
influence you in deciding for their
career.
Social Factors

Influence of Friends and Peers.

• Peer pressure is common among learners.

There are learners who decide on the career
to pursue based on the opinion or choice of
their friends. Who among you will choose the
same course as your friends? Why? There are
many reasons for this―you want to be in, or
would not want to make new friends and
make new adjustments, too much attachment
to old friends.
Social Factors

Industry Demands and

Expectations.
• Our career choices take place within the
context of society and the economy. Graduates
have been practical in considering the demands
and expectations of the industries before
coming up with their career decisions. These
guide them in deciding what to do and where to
go. Changes in the economy and resulting job
market may also affect how their careers
develop.
As senior high school learners, are you
aware of the different choices of
professions and career?
Do you know where to go after senior
high school?
Senior High School Curriculum
Exits
The Senior High School Program has four curriculum
exits. You can choose to be employed right after
graduation or pursue the development of your technical
and vocational skills. You can also decide to be an
entrepreneur or pursue higher education.
Senior High School Curriculum
Exits
• The Senior High School (SHS) program
opens up employment opportunities for
graduates. SHS graduates of the
Technical-Vocational-Livelihood (TVL)
track may apply for TESDA Certificates
of Competency (COCs) and National
Employmen
Certificates (NCs). Partnerships with
t
different companies for technical and
vocational courses expose students to
the real world of work. Students also
gain work experience while studying,
and companies can even hire them
after they graduate.
Senior High School Curriculum
Exits

• With the inclusion of an entrepreneurship

subject in the curriculum, SHS graduates are
Entrepreneurs
better equipped for small-scale business
hip
activities, such as running the family business
or starting one’s own business.
Senior High School Curriculum
Exits
• By the time you graduate from SHS,
you will have the standard
knowledge, skills, and competencies
needed for higher education. Also,
some subjects in the College General
Higher Education curriculum have now been
Education integrated into the SHS curriculum.
These subjects will be taken out of
the college curriculum, leaving only
the subjects that are more focused
and relevant to your chosen course
or major.
Senior High School Curriculum
Exits
• Standard requirements built into the
TVL track ensure that graduates
Middle have good job knowledge in their
Level chosen specializations. In the same
Skills way that SHS graduates are better
Developm prepared for college, they are also
ent equipped for developing more
specialized skills in technical-
vocational schools.
Regulated Professions per
Cluster
Regulated Professions per
Cluster
Guide Questions
Given the different career and life choices through the senior
high school curriculum exits and clusters of regulated
professions, were you able to decide where to go after senior
high school?

Did you find it helpful to know the different professions and

other life choices?

What is the importance of considering the different factors in

choosing your profession/vocation?
Guide Questions

What is your insight about this statement from Confucius?

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a
day in your life.”
Activity 2: Reasons Behind My
Choices
A worksheet will be distributed. Reflect and accomplished
it accordingly.
Reflection
Write your insights gained from the session. Complete
the following phrases:

1. I learned that…

2. I felt…
3. I would (action to be taken)
…
Any Question?