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Factors Affecting Career Choice: Self-Discovery and Decision Making in Career Development

Explore the various factors that influence career choices, such as individual interests, social influences, and system-related factors. Learn how personal aptitudes, values, skills, and attitudes play a crucial role in career decision-making. Discover the impact of social factors like family, society, and media on career choices, along with system-related influences. Navigate through self-discovery processes, career maturity, and academic achievements as you embark on a continuous learning journey to establish fulfilling career goals. Embrace the diversity of career paths shaped by individual, social, and chance elements.

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Factors Affecting Career Choice: Self-Discovery and Decision Making in Career Development

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  1. What effects our career choice? Fidan Korkut-Owen

  2. Career Development • Continuous learning process • Self discovery • Educational and labor market opportunity • Decision making , establish a goal and do career plan

  3. Some Factors Influence Career Choice 1. Individual/personal (interest, aptitude, values , earlier experience etc) Self-discovery 2. Social (family, traditions, media etc) 3. System related (etc., political, economic, legal) 4. Chance factor. ( Korkut-Owen, 2008) • Educational and labor market opportunity

  4. INDIVIDUAL/PERSONAL FACTORS

  5. Interests Enjoy to do some activities or not It determines job satisfaction

  6. In a ordinary weekend day, whatever you do in 24 hours make a list.. After then give a degree to each item • 1. I did not like at all, • 2. I did not like • 3. I like it • 4. I like it so much Check the items that you gave 3 or 4!!

  7. Aptitudes • Whatever you would do so easily! • If we have talent then it is to do for us!

  8. My characteristics Things I can do easily Things enjoy to do 1. 2. 3. 4.

  9. Values • What are the most important in our lives? Family, health, money? • Believes and feelings are behind them. • Our interests are based on our values!!!

  10. What is the your first 5 most important things in your life? • 1. • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5

  11. Skills… • Some think these are came from birth • Most researchers think we learn skills, (learning language, computer skills, driving etc..)

  12. Self menagement skills • Motivate your self, do it your duties on time • Transferable skills • If you know how you can organize, this skills can be used in so many different situations • There are programs!! • Spesific skills • Car related.. If you know every part of the car engine

  13. What are your transferable skills ? • Foreign language • Computer • Communication • Management • Presentation • Helping vb...

  14. Attitudes • Attitudes to work, professions, work places… • Gender issues etc..

  15. Some discussion questions  • Which jobs have the most and the least prestige? • What do you think about to work? • What do you think gender and profession?

  16. Personality • Introverted person and social worker? • Impatient person and kindergarten teacher • Independent person and governmental officer (657) • Examples..

  17. Career maturity? • ….. “individual’s readiness to cope with the developmental tasks (for) that stage of development” Super (1990)

  18. Physical/health conditionsAcademic achievement • If you want to be pilot your eyes must be healthy • If you want to be a model you have to be tall • Your examples? • Academic achievement can effect to be accepted to some academic programs or jobs…

  19. Self efficacy • Perception of the individual about him/herself , what s/he can do or can not do.. • Can be unrealistic

  20. Career related early and current experiences • Childhood experience • Professions were available around her/his life • Ideal job ideas • Work experiences • Job experiences • Role models from real life or TV, movies, novels etc..

  21. SOCIAL FACTORS

  22. Family • Their personalities, education, their parents, gender expectation, economic situation etc..

  23. Your family and you Career family tree • Your family members careers!! • Grand mother and grandfather , • mother, father, aunts and uncles • Siblings, cousins • How did they choice? • Which kind of messages they gave you

  24. Your mother Your father You Erkekler Kadınlar

  25. Discussion • Society • Common values, traditions, gender roles expectations, gender of the professions  • Media • Which professions were presented more? • Which professions considered as prestigious etc. • Currently which professions are popular? • Currently which professions are considered very important?

  26. SYSTEM RELATED (POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, LEGAL, ETC ) FACTORS

  27. Governmental system • Legal system • Economic system • Educational system • Entering the labor market • Geography • Global events

  28. University exam • KPSS • State and private sector • Labor market

  29. Chance • Health situation (person him/herself or her/his family members) • Natural disasters • Unexpected events, meeting people • Exam system changing etc... • Examples?

  30. These four interrelated dimensions (individual, social, system related -political, economic, legal- and chance ) effect our career development and decisions. • Our role is to help students/clients during their career decision making process, promote their career plans

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