What effects our
career choice?
FIDAN KORKUT-OWEN
Career Development
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 Continuous learning process
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Self discovery
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Educational and labor market opportunity
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Decision making , establish a goal and do career plan
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Some Factors Influence Career Choice
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1. Individual/personal (interest, aptitude,
values , earlier experience etc)
2. Social (family, traditions, media etc)
Self-discovery
Educational
3. System related (etc., political, economic, and labor
market
legal)
opportunity
4. Chance factor.
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Korkut-Owen, 2008)
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INDIVIDUAL/PERSONAL
FACTORS
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Interests
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Enjoy to do some activities or not
It determines job satisfaction
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 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!!
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Aptitudes
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Whatever you would do so easily!
 If we have talent then it is to do for us!
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My characteristics
Things I can do easily
Things enjoy to do
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4.
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Values
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What are the most important in our lives?
Family, health, money?
 Believes and feelings are behind them.
 Our interests are based on our values!!!
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 What is the your first 5 most important things in
your life?
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Skills…
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 Some think these are came from birth
Most researchers think we learn skills,
(learning language, computer skills, driving etc..)
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Self menagement skills
Motivate your self, do it your duties on time
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Transferable skills
If you know how you can organize, this skills can be
used in so many different situations
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There are programs!!
Spesific skills
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Car related.. If you know every part of the car engine
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 What are your transferable skills ?
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Foreign language
Computer
Communication
Management
Presentation
Helping vb...
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Attitudes
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Attitudes to work, professions, work places…
Gender issues etc..
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Some discussion questions 
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 Which jobs have the most and the least
prestige?
 What do you think about to work?
 What do you think gender and profession?
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Personality
 Introverted person
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and social worker?
 Impatient person
and kindergarten
teacher
 Independent person
and governmental
officer (657)
 Examples..
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Career maturity?
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 ….. “individual’s readiness to cope with the
developmental tasks (for) that stage of development”
Super (1990)
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Physical/health conditions
Academic achievement
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 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…
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Self efficacy
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 Perception of the individual about him/herself , what
s/he can do or can not do..
 Can be unrealistic
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Career related early and current experiences
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 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..
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SOCIAL FACTORS
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 Family
 Their personalities, education, their parents, gender
expectation, economic situation etc..
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Your family and you
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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
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Your mother
Your
father
You
Erkekler
Kadınlar
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Discussion
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 Society
 Common values, traditions, gender roles expectations, gender
of the professions 
 Media
 Which professions were presented more?
 Which professions considered as prestigious etc.
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Currently which professions are popular?
Currently which professions are considered very important?
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 SYSTEM RELATED (POLITICAL,
ECONOMIC, LEGAL, ETC )
FACTORS
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 Governmental system
 Legal system
 Economic system
 Educational system
 Entering the labor market
 Geography
 Global events
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 University exam
 KPSS
 State and private sector
 Labor market
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Chance
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 Health situation (person him/herself or
her/his family members)
 Natural disasters
 Unexpected events, meeting people
 Exam system changing etc...
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Examples?
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 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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