Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VIII (Eastern Visayas)
DIVISION OF LEYTE
Palompon National High School
Palompon, Leyte

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

Career Guidance Program
Grade 11

MODULE 6

Up, Up in the Ladder of My Career

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 Up, Up in the Ladder of My Career
Introduction

There are many career options to choose from, so senior high schoolers
like you must learn to manage your choice of career or life goal. When
you encounter challenges that somehow affect you from reaching your
goal, do not give up. Just as career options are numerous, so are the
possible ways of addressing the tests that come along with the preferred
career. The same is true when we encounter challenges that hinder us to
reach our dreams. For each of the challenges identified in the attainment
of your career choice, let us identify possible ways to address them.

This module will guide you in applying your abilities and maximizing
your resources in deciding for your career. It will also make you realize
that there are many factors that affect and, in a way, strengthen your
decision making for a career choice.

I. Objectives

At the end of this module, the learners are expected to:

1. name the pros and cons of the decision made for life and career; and
2. formulate ways of addressing the possible challenges and areas for
enrichment.

II. Motivation

This activity will make you become aware about factors that lead
you to the decision of choosing a particular track/strand, including the
barriers that you have to deal with at present. This activity will also help
learners create strategies in order to deal with these barriers.

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 Activity Sheet No. 1: My Priorities

Directions: Choose three challenges or concerns from the list below

that relate to what you are presently experiencing in your chosen
career. Rank them one to three with 1 as the topmost challenge and
3 as the lowest.

___________ Financial status

___________ Health
___________ Job opportunities
___________ Parents influence
___________ Influence from significant others
___________ Distance between home and employment opportunity
___________ College/university after high school
___________ Capital for entrepreneurship
___________ Opportunities to work abroad
___________ Will to pursue college
___________ Educational scholarship
___________ Change of life style
___________ Work ethics
___________ Compensation
___________ Hard skills
___________ Personal choice (interest)

Source: Career Planning Model by the Department of Training and

Workforce Development, Career Centre, accessed December 6, 2016

Guide Questions
1. Which challenges or concerns did you pick out?
2. Why did you consider these as your top three challenges/concerns?
3. Are you satisfied with your choice? Why?
4. What factors should you consider when planning a career?
5. What are your realizations/insights about the activity?
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III. Main Activity
Activity Sheet No. 2: Factors to Consider in Choosing a Career
Write your answer in a column whether advantages or disadvantages.

Which has the greater

weight?
Factors Advantages Disadvantages
What are What are
those? those?

1. Employment opportunity
Availability of job in the locality
and/or nearby areas.

2. Financial capability of parents

Availability of financial resources to
sustain the needs to finish the
preferred course.

3. Global opportunity
High probability to work in other
countries.

4. Health
Enjoy good physical and mental
health and vitality; enjoy physical
and mental well-being; be free
from disease or pain.

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5. High paying
job/profession/income
generating career.
Compensation is far above the
regular received salary of common
workers.

6. Interest
Preference for certain kinds of
activities

Which has the greater

weight?
Factors Advantages Disadvantages
What are What are
those? those?

7. Mental capacity
Sufficient understanding and
memory to comprehend in a
general way the situation in which
one finds oneself and the nature,
purpose, and consequence of any
act or transaction into which one
proposes to enter.

8. Personality
The characteristic patterns of
behavior, thought, and emotion
that determine a person’s
adjustment to environment.

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9. Prestige
Become well-known; gain the
respect of others; be acknowledged
by others as being better.

10. Social responsibility

Social and humanitarian values.

Source: International Journal of Academic Research in Psychology

July 2014, Vol. 1, No. 2 ISSN 2312-1882 Career Related Profile of Freshman
Students for Academic Year 2013–2014: Basis for a Career Development Plan
Sheena Wella G. Arguelles and Amelia B. Bay Counseling and Testing Center,
Lyceum of the Philippines University, Batangas.
*Sample only

Student’s career choice: To become a chef in a cruise ship.

Which has the greater weight?
Considering Factors Pros Cons
in choosing a Career (advantages) (disadvantages)
What are those? What are those?
1.Employment There are a number
opportunity of restaurants and
Availability of job in hotels in our
the locality and/or province.
nearby areas.
I have a relative who
is a hotel supervisor
and my cousin has a
catering business.
We have a small
carinderia and my
older sister sell baon
pack in the factories.

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 2. Financial capability • My father’s income
of parents is seasonal
Availability of financial (livestock).
resources to sustain • I am the second in
the needs to finish the a brood of five
preferred course. and we are all in
school.

Guide Questions
1. Are the factors to consider mentioned in the activity necessary in
choosing a career? Why do you say so?
2. Were you able to identify at once if the factors are advantageous or
disadvantageous for your chosen career? Why?
3. Do your answers reflect the way you are planning to implement your
career path?

Read the given context.

A goal is anything—an object or situation—that we think we need or

want. It may be something we want to do, what we want to be, or what
we want to have.

A need is what we do not have or do not have enough of. The well-
known social psychologist Abraham H. Maslow classified human needs
and arranged them in hierarchical order from lower to higher needs. His
theory of sequential development of needs states that:
• Lower-level needs develop first in the life of a person.
• Once lower-level needs are satisfied or are on the way to satisfaction,
they assume less importance in motivation because the higher-level
needs become dominant in motivating behavior.
A value is something we have and which we prize or treasure. We make
choices to protect, defend, or enhance it. A value is shown in the choice
we freely make. We are happy with the choice. If we value working with
others, we will always choose situations at work in which we interact
with others rather than working alone.

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 Different kinds of values:
• personal values
• family values
• spiritual values
• work values
• career values
• social and humanitarian values
• cultural values

Source: Santamaria, Josefina O. 2006 Career Planning Workbook 4th Ed.

Career Systems, Inc. Makati City, Philippines

Jumping the Hurdles Inside of Me

There will be many obstacles that the adolescent will face when
choosing and planning a career path. The bigger the problems
adolescents think they have, the stronger they will become after
overcoming these problems. Jumping the hurdles that are within will
take time, but practicing the virtues will strengthen adolescents for the
hurdles they will have to jump over. There are many different external
obstacles that adolescents will face in the path that they choose to take.
Many of these problems may seem like they are beyond the adolescents’
control. It is important however, to remind them that in every situation
that occurs, what matters most is how they deal with it. To jump the
hurdles from outside takes a lot of strength in decision making.

Source: Torralba, Antonio N. & Socorro L. Bautista, 2003 Career A Dream, A Mission,
A Vocation I am S.T.R.O.N.G for Career Copyright page 91, 92, 93

IV. APPLICATION

Procedure
Activity No. 3. I create My Own Ladder of Success! You can use
another sheet of paper.
You will draw an illustration of a ladder with four steps showing your
journey in reaching your career and life goals through the career
decision you made.

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 First step: At present
Second step: After senior high school graduation
Third step: After 5 years from now
Fourth step: After 10 years from now

Guide Question
From a rating of 1 to 10 with 10 as the highest, what is your present
level of determination to achieve your career/life goals?

V. Reflection

1. In your journal/ bond paper, write your insights and realizations

about the three activities.

VI. Evaluation

Activity Sheet No. 4: My Action Plans. Prepare an Action Plan based on

the disadvantages you have indicated in activity sheet no. 2. You can
use another sheet of paper.

*Sample only

Disadvantages Plan of Action

1. Financial Capacity Graduate in Senior High School under the

TVL strand.
Earn the NC 2 at TESDA.
Look for a parttime job in fastfood chains or
restaurants while pursuing college.
Apply for possible scholarships or financial
assistance. Enroll in a state university.

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 2.

VII. Agreement/Assignment

Show your activity sheets to your parents, discuss the results, and ask
them to affix their signature in each output.

References
Atkinson, R.L., Atkinson, R.C., Smith, E.E., & Bem, D.J. (1997). Introduction
to Psychology, 11th edition. Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Torralba, Antonio N. & Socorro L. Bautista, 2003 Career A Dream, A Mission,

A Vocation I am S.T.R.O.N.G for Career Copyright page 91, 92, 93

Career Planning Model by Department of Training and Workforce

Development, Career Centre, accessed December 6, 2016,
http://www.careercentre.dtwd.wa.gov.au/CareerPlanning/Pages/CareerPla
nning4StepPlanningProcess.aspx

International Journal of Academic Research in Psychology July 2014, Vol. 1,

No. 2 ISSN 2312-1882 Career Related Profile of Freshman Students for
Academic Year 2013 – 2014: Basis for a Career Development Plan Sheena
Wella G. Arguelles and Amelia B. Bay Counseling and Testing Center,
Lyceum of the Philippines University, Batangas.

Santamaria, Josefina O. 2006 Career Planning Workbook 4th Ed. Career

Systems, Inc. Makati City, Philippines

Merriam Webster
Career Guidance Manual (DM 091, s. 2018). Module 6.
DM-OUCI-2021-0015

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