PerDev_CAREER DEVELOPMENT

It is identified as the most influential extrinsic factor in career choice decision. Income was considered as an important component of life, particularly among youth who had higher level of individualism.

• Affordability

• Financial Remuneration

• Income

• Earning potential

This mindset increased the count in the mediocre group where students fail to succeed in their career and just keep on it with an average performance.

• Earning Potential

• Peer Influence

• Personal Interest

• Teachers and Educators

This theory establishes a classification system that matches personality characteristics and personal preferences to job characteristics. Holland codes are six personality/career types that help describe a wide range of occupations.

• Abilities

• Interest & Personality Test

• Peer Influence

• Skills

This is the purchasing power of individual who dares to dream.

• Affordability

• Budget

• Business

• Money

Your chosen profession is likely to be a factor that influences your career path. Your personal financial needs are also likely to influence the career choices you make.

• Affordability

• Business

• Career Planning

• Earning Potential

Geography can have an influence on career path decision in a number of ways. You may choose a job that requires living in a certain region.

• Home Address

• Jurisdiction

• Location

• Territory

Choosing a career just to live up to the parents’ expectation is the most common decision taken by students from business families are by default expected to choose commerce career course. Some who resists submit to the parental pressure leading to an unsuccessful career choice.

• Counselors

• Parents’ desire/Parental Pressure

• Peer Influence

• Teachers and Educators

This practice of determining one’s interest field based on one-time exam performance has often led to a wrong career decision. Let us take a concrete example, a senior high school graduate who wants to take up BSED is advised to take up other course because of failing the screening admission

• Past Performance

• Examination Result

• Interview

• Personal Interest

Considering your skills and abilities and how they may fit in a particular occupation comes out of one the earliest career development fields, Traitfactors theories, and is used today. You can identify activities you enjoy and those in which you have a level of competency though a formal assessment.

• Interest and Personality Test

• Hobbies and Likes

• Skills and Abilities

• Talents

They are significant figures in the process of youth’s career decision-making and are seen as significant figures that are agents of development and could have an influence on students’ decision making

• Counselors

• Parents

• Relatives

• Teachers and Educators