Take Hold of Your Future

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Session 4 Environment and Self
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Objectives
Take Hold of Your Future, 5th Edition
At the end of this session, students will be able
to

• explain how self-concept is formed and how it
  relates to career choice.
• explain Hollands theory of personality.
• describe the Arch of Determinants and its meaning
  for personal career choices.

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Definitions
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• Self-Concept - a picture or image of ones self,
  a combination of what we think we are, what
  others think we are, and what we want to be

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How Self-Concept is Formed
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• Holland
• Parents offer activities.
• Activities that are positively reinforced become
  interests.
• People pursue skills to support their interests.
• Possessing specific interests and skills leads to
  the development of values.
• This sequence produces a unique code that
  people seek to implement through work.

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How Self-Concept is Formed Contd
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• Self-concept formation begins very early in life.
• It is developed by the feedback that we receive
  from significant others.
• Those parts of the self-concept that can apply to
  work are called the vocational self-concept.
• People seek to implement their vocational
  self-concept in work.

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How Self-Concept is Formed Contd
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• The self-concept is continually formed and
  modified throughout life.
• Self-concept is the dynamic behind selection and
  interaction of life roles.
• Choice of an occupation is an attempt to
  implement a
• self-concept.
• Career choices will be difficult if the
  self-concept is fuzzy, negative, or unrealistic.

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Discussion of Student Collages
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• What statements am I making about myself in this
  collage?
• What do these pictures say about who I am now, or
  who I want to be in the future?
• What role models or early life events have
  affected this selection of pictures?
• What occupations might be suggested by this
  self-information?

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Hollands Theory
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• People can be described as a combination of six
  different personality types.
• Environments can be described by the same six
  types.
• Individuals of a given personality type are drawn
  to environments of the same type.
• Satisfaction is likely when persons type matches
  an environments type.

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The Six Personality Types
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• Realistic (R) - likes to work with tools,
  machines, animals good mechanical skills
• Investigative (I) - likes to work with abstract
  ideas good math and science skills
• Artistic (A) - likes to engage in creative
  activities good skills in art, music, dance, or
  other artistic form

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The Six Personality Types Contd
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• Social (S) - likes to work with people face to
  face to help or teach them has good verbal and
  social skills
• Enterprising (E) - likes to work with people face
  to face to manage them or sell a product or
  service
• Conventional (C) - likes to work with data,
  facts, numbers good organizational skills

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Hexagon Showing Relationship of Six Kuder
Clusters (Holland types in parenthesis.)
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Homework for Next Session
Take Hold of Your Future, 5th Edition

• Read Chapter 4.
• Complete the Career Archway activity.
• Begin to work on a 3-5 page paper titled My
  Self-Concept
• the view you have of yourself
• detailed description of how your self-concept has
  been formed
• your view on how your self-concept will affect
  career choices

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