TOPIC 8

Foundation Of Career &

Understanding Of Students
Lecturer : Mr. Saiful Lizan B. Suparman
Presenter : Siti Hajar Bt. Zaid @ Sahid
Siti Nabihah Bt. Mustaffa
Nur Azimah Bt. Md. Salleh
Najwa Adibah Bt. Bukari
EDU 3107: GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING FOR CHILDREN
INTRODUCTION
Foundation of career
provide appropriate foundations for later planning and
decision making of career for better future
Understanding of student
identify their own characteristics and potential through
students inventory service
promotes learners self understanding
using standardized testing movement and the database
to develop further systematic activities that reflects
learners interest and needs

THE CONCEPT OF
BUILDING LIFESTYLE
Alfred Adlers Theory on Personality
Adler stressed a positive view of human nature.
He believed that individuals can control their fate.
They can do this in part by trying to help others
(social interest).
How they do this can be understood through
analyzing their lifestyle.
Early interactions with family members, peers, and
teachers help to determine the role of inferiority and
superiority in their lives.

Style of life or Lifestyle

A way of seeking to fulfill particular goals that individuals
set in their lives.
Individuals use their own patterns of beliefs, cognitive
styles, and behaviors as a way of expressing their style of
life.
Often style of life or lifestyle is a means for overcoming
feeling of inferiority.

Four areas of lifestyle:
1. The self-concept
- the convictions about who I am.
2. The self-ideal
- convictions about what I should be.
3. The Weltbild, or picture of the world
- convictions about the not-self and what the world demands
of me.
4. The ethical convictions
- The personal right-wrong code.





EXPLORATION OF
CAREER INTEREST AND
VALUES
Hollands Theory
Holland (1971), assumes that career interest is part of the
individual whole personality.
People of the same personality type working together in a job
creates an environment that fits and rewards their type.
Based on Holland :
1. Individual personality is different.
2. Personality is the result of trait and environment.
3. Every individuals have their own definition on every career.
4. Individuals in the same career will have similar personality.
5. Satisfaction, stabilization and achievement in career is based on
individuals interactions and career environment.


Hollands theory is centred on the notion that
most people fit into one of six personality
types: (RIASEC)

INDIVIDUAL
ASSESSMENT WITH
APPLICATIONS OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL
INVENTORY
What the letters mean
Each of these letters represents a personal interest category. The
columns you have the most check marks in show where your interests
are the strongest. Listed below are some jobs related to each interest
type.
Realistic Careers: Mechanic, fire fighter, police officer, forester,
chef, carpenter, landscape architect, military, athletic trainer,
engineer.
Investigative Careers: Biologist, psychologist, computer
programmer, doctor, engineer, pharmacist, mathematician,
dietician.
Artistic Careers: Artist, musician, novelist, photographer, lawyer,
interior designer, television announcer, actor, disc jockey, art
teacher, reporter, architect.

Social Careers: Social worker, counselor, teacher,
nurse, minister, school administrator,
occupational therapist.
Enterprising Careers: Business owner, manager,
sales person, travel agent, public relations,
personnel director, real estate agent, florist.
Conventional Careers: Accountant, secretary,
banker, bookkeeper, math teacher, treasurer,
surgical technologist, dental assistant.
Taken from The Career Interest Program Prentice-Hall, Inc. 2001

Realistic
The Do-ers
Investigative
The
Thinkers
Artistic
The
Creators
Social
The
Helpers
Enterprising
The
Persuaders
Conventional
The
Organizers
People who
have
athletic or
mechanical
ability,
prefer to
work with
objects,
machines,
tools, plants
or
animals, or
to be
outdoors.
People who
like
to observe,
learn,
investigate,
analyze,
evaluate
or solve
problems.
People who
have
artistic,
innovating
or
intuitional
abilities and
like
to work in
unstructure
d
situations
using
their
imagination
and
creativity
People who
like
to work
with
people to
enlighten,
inform,
help, train,
or cure
them, or
are
skilled with
words.
People who
like
to work
with
people,
influencing,
persuading,
performing,
leading or
managing
for
organizatio
nal
goals or
economic
gain.
People who
like
to work
with data,
have
clerical or
numerical
ability,
carry out
tasks in
detail or
follow
through on
others
instructions
.
Table 1: Hollands theory on career interest, RIASEC
resources
http://adultlearner.nku.edu/content/dam/adu
ltlearner/docs/RIASEC.pdf
http://www.careers.govt.nz/educators-
practitioners/career-practice/career-theory-
models/hollands-theory/