guiding your child on their career decision making

Guiding your Child on their Career Decision Making

Dr. Carlo Magnocrlmgn@yahoo.com

Outline

Your child’s career development Decision making in school Parent’s involvement in the child’s

career

You child’s career development

According to Super:

1. Growth (fantasy, interests, and curiosity)2. Exploration (crystallizing, specifying, and implementing) 3. Establishment (stabilising, consolidating, frustration, and advancing) 4. Maintenance (holding, updating, stagnation, and innovating),5. Decline (decelerating, retirement planning, and retirement living)

Career decision making in school Grade school:

What occupation will you dress up for the career day?

What is the ideal job in the future that I will write in my essay?

High school Grade 10: What track will I enter in senior high

school? Grade 12: Will I go to college? Work? Or start my

business? College: What work is suitable to my course? Will I

pursue further studies?

Understanding parents’ involvement theor child’s career

Know your parental involvement style Answer the items: Read each statement and rate how true are each

statement about you as a parent. Answer as honestly as possible to each statement to get an accurate interpretation of the results. Write the corresponding number of your choice on the blank before each statement.

  4 Very true of me 3 True of me 2 Not true of me 1 Not very true of me

___ 1. I encourage my child to find their suitable career. ___ 2. I watch my child while acting the occupation they want to

pursue. ___ 3. I help my child answer his/her questions about the future

job they want to pursue. ___ 4. I explain to my child the different occupations available. ___ 5. I check if my child have decided on their college course. ___ 6. I remind my child constantly to complete all their

requirements for college application. ___ 7. I ensure that my child will work in a conducive place. ___ 8. I set expectations on the specific career my child will

pursue. ___ 9. I remind my child to make good grades to have a good job

in the future. ___ 10. I provide the resources my child needs to be successful in

their future career.

Parental Involvement

Add your answers for items 1-2 Add your answers for items 3-6 Add your answers for items 7-10

Parental Involvement

Items 1-2 “Autonomy-support” Items 3-6 “Direct Involvement” Items 7-10 “Provision for

structure”

Which style is your highest score? ________

Parental Involvement

Autonomy-support Extent to which parents value and

use techniques that encourage in their children independent problem solving, choice, and participation in career decisions.

Parents provide encouragement Parents just watch and monitor

Parental Involvement

Direct Involvement Extent to which parents are

interested in, knowledgeable about, and takes an active part in their children’s career.

Parents open the diary/assignment notebook

Parents sits with the child while doing the homework

Parents teach

Goals for the child

Clear career-related goal Motivation to pursue goals Goal attainability Career goal effort Career goal progress Career self-efficacy (confidence in

reading goals)

Parents career support

Provision of information Emotional support Financial support Promoting career expectations

Helping the child gain career maturity Plan: Help the child have a planful attitude

toward coping with career stages and tasks Gain information: Allow the child gather

information about educational and vocational opportunities

Explore: Facilitate the exploration about the world of work

Make decisions: Engage the child to make good career decisions

Be realistic: Guide the child to make realistic judgments about their self and suitable occupations.

Planning with your child

Determining what course they want for college

What job the child want to have in the future

Letting the child describe what they want to do in college and where they want to study

Helping the child clarify future goals List of what the child needs to do

now in order to get to their goal.

Helping the chid gain information Giving access to information about

their ideal job, ideal work setting, scenario

Telling the child which college course matches job requirements

Informing the child on requirements in the profession such as years of study, licensure examination, some difficulties

Let the child read information about their interests (internet time)

Career Exploration Bringing the child to sites where they see their ideal job Suggesting movies, series, videos where the job is

highlighted. Providing the child tasks or chores at home that is

related with the work Classifying plants at home Schedule of medicine intake Cooking Fixing and cleaning the car Taking photographs Making videos Cleaning the house, fixing the bedm food service (HRM)

Allowing the child to join field trips and extra curricular activities inschool

Helping your child make decisions Teaching the child weigh pros and cons Letting the child see some consequences Providing options in different:

schools Courses Alternatives

Asking the child their decision and how they arrived at that decision

Let the child make their own decision and if they fail, be there and let them try again.

Being Realistic with your child Conversing with your child their

interest and capabilities and how it matches with their choices

Reminding the child the difficulties they may encounter

Discovering the child’s strengths and maintaining it.

Showing the child the consequences of their decisions

Level of Intervention

K to 3 Close interventionGrades 4 to 6

Mild intervention

Grade 7 to 10

Mild to no intervention

Grades 11 to 12

No intervention to inquiry

College No intervention to Inquiry

Helping the child gain career maturity