Personal Assessment- the 1st step

Examine your personal experiences

Who you are right now
Current stage of career and life
development
Ability to deal with new information

Supers Self Concept Theory

1. We differ in abilities, interests, and

personalities.
2. Every occupation requires a
characteristic pattern of abilities, interests,
and personality traits. Within each
occupation are workers with varying
degrees of these characteristics.

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3. Each of us is qualified for a number of

occupations.
4. Vocational preferences and skills, the
situations in which we live and work, and
our self-concepts change with time and
experience. These factors make choice and
adjustment a continual process based on
our maturity and lifestyle.

Supers Self Concept Theory

5. Selecting a career involves
the following stages:
A. Growth: physical and
emotional as you form attitudes
and behaviors.

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B. Exploration: Divided into
fantasy, tentative, reality
testing.
C. Establishment:
work that may have
started as just a job
but offers growth.

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D. Maintenance: maintain or
improve our career area.
E. Disengagement: before
retirement or when we see no
new challenges or chances for
mobility.

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6. The nature of any career
pattern is influenced by
parental socioeconomic level,
mental ability, personality
characteristics, and
opportunities exposed.

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7. The process of career

development is essentially that
of self-concept development
and implementation.

Supers Self Concept Theory

8. Work satisfactions and life

satisfactions depend on the extent
to which our work and our life
provide adequate outlets for our
abilities, interests, personality
traits and values.

Job or Career
Job- a series of tasks or
activities that are performed
within the scope of what we
call work. Relate to a career in
that a career is a series of jobs.

Job or Career
Career:a sequence of attitudes
and behaviors that are
associated with work and that
relate toward total life
experience.

New Employee Contract

The expectation that once you

find a job, you are home free,
secure, or set for life is no
longer realistic.

Follow intuitions and not trends:

It is important to give considerable

thought to what you want to do
and structure your training and
education to be relevant both to
your interests and trends
in the job market.

Be Prepared to Manage Your

Career

Getting to know your self will

help you identify careers that are
best suited to your personality.
People who are not
prepared for change
allow that change to
make decisions for
them.

Career Satisfaction

More than 50 percent are dissatisfied with

their jobs.
2014 Gallup poll indicates 31.9 percent are
engaged with their jobs.
Two-thirds said if they were starting over
they would try to get more information
about their career options.

Career Satisfaction

We are looking, then, not for the one right

career but for the series of alternatives and
career options that seem to make sense for
each of us given our background, our
personality, our career and life stages, and
the changing world.

Life Stages

16-22 late adolescence: leaving parents world;

independence being established but not stable;
unsure of ability to make it in the adult world;
open to new ideas.
22-28 provisional adulthood: gaining
independence; gathering relevant work skills and
setting goals; testing and choosing which to
retain. Still proving competence to peers and
parents; more self-reliant, building for the future;
adjusting to lifestyle preferences.

Life Stages

28-32 the thirties transition: questioning

commitments to traditional marriage in
relationships, family and career;
reassessments and changes may take place.
A particularly vulnerable stage for
continuity, although many choose to
continue their earlier choices.

Life Stages

32-39 the time of rooting: involved in life decisions;

helping children grow, priority consideration to
childbearing; recognizing parental messages; modifying
personality; accepting choices; more attention to
business matters; establishing reputation -- until about
age 35 when the question Will I have time to do it
all? begins to arise; more awareness of time and the
important matter of What do I really want to be?
May be the first time a woman experiences freedom
from childbearing and begins to consider her options.

Life Stages

39-43 turning point years: a period of great

upheaval and midlife crisis; may appear
that earlier dreams are not attainable;
wondering Why am I here, where am I
going?; additional lifestyle changes, often
not planned; feeling there is something
missing in life; possible further thoughts
about raising a family; starting or changing
a career.

Life Stages

43-50 re-stabilization/bearing fruit: more at

peace with questions of mortality, career
and lifestyle transitions; children testing
their independence; personal review of
child raising patterns; career blossoming;
attention to personal growth; activity in
community; reevaluating relationship as
ones children become adults.

Life Stages

50-70 renewal: either a time of calm, acceptance

and enjoyment of life or new challenges due to an
abrupt career change; planning for retirement;
energy and strength may decline; spouses/friends
die; risk-taking seems less likely to occur;
disengaging from concept of work, though some
will start a new career at this time; dealing with
care of aging parents; possible tension between
the wife in the prime of her career after childrearing and husband eager to retire and start a
new phase of life.

Life Stages

70 and up - transition toward retirement: as life is

extended and retirement is not mandatory, this
period may become the true golden years of
continued usefulness to society and growth for
oneself.
Retirement: ending traditional work patterns;
involved with hobbies and other interests;
opportunities to increase social and civic
activities; enjoying travel, family, and leisure.

Goals

We need to think about career or goals in

the sense of their being both short-term and
long-term.
Long-term you want to be a lawyer
Short-term might be obtaining a job as a
legal secretary or paralegal.

Self-knowledge helps decision

making

Know who you are, so that when you are

listening, reading, watching, and
experiencing, youll have a means of
processing information through your
consciousness, through your personality
and preferences, and through your values
and skills.

Self-knowledge helps decision-making

Eventually, youll be able to recognize and

reject information that does not apply to
you, and to internalize and add to your
career plan information that does.
You then have the distinct advantage of
being able to choose training for a career
about which you are truly excited and
enthusiastic.