presented to graduating high school students during career guidance activity

1. Rambelle C. Flores, RGC, RPm
Guidance Coordinator III
ZNNHS

2. Personal Factors

3. Family Factors

4. Socio-cultural Factors

5. Economic

6. Personal Factors

7. Aptitude
 Your natural skills and abilities to perform well in a
particular area are likely to influence your choice of a
career path.
 For instance, if you've always done well in math and
science in school and these subjects seem to come
easily to you, you may be drawn to a career in
engineering

8. Interests and Skills Set
 You may have a strong interest in a particular career
and may have wanted to pursue it from an early age.
 Matching what you like to do and what you do well to
your career can make the difference between liking
and resenting your job.
 How are your people skills?

9. Personality
 The dynamic and organized set of characteristics
possessed by a person that uniquely influences his or
her cognitions, motivations, and behaviors in various
situations
 The sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and
social characteristics of an individual.
 Including self concept, motivation, determination, life
goals

10. Knowing better

11. Family Factors

12. Positive Parental Influence
 Many children grow up idealizing the professions of
their parents
 Parents may also intentionally or unintentionally push
a child toward a particular career path, especially in
the cases of family-owned businesses, where parents
expect their children to take over the company.
 Other parents apply pressure on their offspring to
strive for particular high-profile careers
 Your parents can steer you to a particular career they
feel is right for you or encourage you to follow in their
footsteps.

13. Negative Parental Influence
 If your parents were uneducated or always struggling
to get by financially, you may decide you’re never going
to be in the same position.
 This may prompt you to pursue a vastly different career
path, looking for stable, high-earning jobs.
 If you have parents who were 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

14. Financial Resources of the Family
 Can your family afford to pay for your chosen college
course?
 Will your parents support (financially) your choice of a
college degree to pursue.
 Education vs. Medicine
 Engineering vs. Fine Arts

15. Spousal Influence
 A fiancé/spouse/significant other can have a major
impact on career choice.
 One spouse may encourage the other to pursue a line
of work that allows for travel, so they can both see the
country; another may want to stay home with young
children, encouraging the working spouse to aim for
higher roles in a particular profession.
 Married people who tie their social status to the
occupation of a spouse may also influence the spouse's
choice of occupation.

16. Children’s Influence
 The professional path you establish as a childless
person may vastly change once you have children. You
may opt to look for employment with flexible or
telecommuting options, or a position that allows you
to job-share.
 If you are a single parent or the sole supporter of your
children, you may be led to have several jobs, a job
with good insurance coverage or a single high-earning
position with limited travel requirements.

17. Family Tradition
 Need to continue the legacy left by other family
members through several generations
 Upholding the good name of the family
 Family of soldiers, teachers, doctors, public servants,
lawyers, etc.

18. Socio-cultural factors

19. Cultural Influences
 The culture and people that surround you on a daily
basis can shape your decision to pursue a certain career
path.
 Your racial or ethnic background or the region where
you grow up can also create expectations about the
type of career you pursue
 Some cultures may place a higher value on a
professional career in medicine, law or teaching.

20. Geographic Location
 Each country, region, province and city comes with its
own special set of socio-economic circumstances.
 Managerial/clerical jobs may be plentiful in Makati or
Manila but animal husbandry opportunities might be
limited.
 Some localities are known for particular products and
professions associated with such products - coconut in
Bicol, rice in Central Luzon, pineapple in Bukidnon.

21. Globalization
 Geographic boundaries are blurred
 Increased mobility; some jobs require constant travel
 Working abroad; serving in other countries
 Responding to job demands in foreign lands
 Working from home

22. Economic Factors

23. Earning Potential
 The potential for a lucrative financial future might
play a prominent role in your choice of careers.
 A career's income potential, both at entry level
and as you gain experience in the field, is a major
consideration.
 Salary range: Unless you’re wealthy, the salary
range of a given profession might either deter or
entice you in your job pursuit

24. Labor Market Forces
 Another factor is whether there is likely to be a
continued demand for workers in the field over the
long term and how much competition you can expect
for open positions.
 Some jobs may be oversubscribed at certain periods;
law of supply and demand
 Armed struggle, politics, religion
 Nursing, IT, HRIM

25. Industry Changes
 Changes in industry have the potential to affect
career choices.
 Need for more blue collar workers than white
collar workers abroad
 New developments in your field may open the door
to expanded professional opportunities.
 “Jobs that will be in demand in 2020 have not been
invented yet.”
 Technological advances lead to the creation of new
jobs to market/maintain/expand new inventions

26. Thank you for listening
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