Guiding your Child on their Career Decision Making
Dr. Carlo [email protected]
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