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 7

Beginning the Journey Where I am

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 Beginning the Journey Where I am

Introduction

This module, “Beginning the Journey Where I Am” is about the

process towards strategic implementation leading to the realization of the
learner’s chosen profession or more career goal.

This part will help learners learn more about their interests, values,
and skills in relation to their current situation which is vital to their
profession in the future. This session will also guide learners in exploring
occupations that are applicable to them and in learning to decide on the
best choice.

I. Objectives

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

1. discuss their present situation in relation to their status in life and

profession;
2. enumerate the different areas to be considered in planning for life
and profession; and
3. evaluate the relevance of their current situation in planning for life
and profession.

II. Main Activity

This main activity is to revisit Session 6 (Module 6), activity 6.1

where the learners identified their current situation in relation to their
life and profession.

In this activity, you will be introduced to SWOT analysis as an

understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
threats, and lead you to action if necessary, about your future career.
The SWOT analysis will also help the learner and their parents to
narrow down a chosen career with understanding and acceptance
based on the family’s socio-economic situation.

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 Procedure
1. Look at the sample SWOT analysis activity sheet.
2. In the first column, write your present track, strand, and
specialization.
3. Based on Session 6, Activity 6.1, list down the areas that you believe
as the part of your SWOT analysis.
4. Write down other challenges and concerns that you encounter as
specified in each column of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
and threats. (See samples of SWOT 1 and 2 below.)

Sample Worksheet 1: Academic

Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

Track:
Academic Have good Not so good • Scholarship • Financial
Strand: ABM mathematical with English in college issues
Specialization:
skills. communication • Job • Proximity
____________
skills. opportunities or
in the Distance
locality Residence
of college
or
university

Sample Worksheet 2: TVL

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 Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats
Track: TVL
Strand: Home • Artistic • easily • local • local small
Economics • Practical discouraged employment business
Specialization: • Analytical • less • international competitors
Food and thinker information of employment • upgrading
Beverages • Patient the latest food • entrepreneurship of skills in
Production • Honest and beverages food and
• People production beverages
issues production
person
• communication • stagnation
skills (verbal of business
and written)

Worksheet 7.1 SWOT Analysis: Answer this.

Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

Name:
____________
__________________
Track:
____________

Strand: ________

Specialization:
__________________

Guide Questions
1. How do you feel about your strengths? your weaknesses?
2. Are your weaknesses manageable in terms of pursuing your career
goal? How will you manage these?

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 3. How will you cope with the threats in pursuing your career goal?
4. Based on the areas that you considered in your career planning,
what are the most priority in order to attain your goal?
Synthesis
“The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in
the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at
the mercy of the strong.”

― Chistian D. Larson

Patience and perseverance are burning desires that need to be fueled

constantly in the process of reaching one’s goal. The quest for the
realization of your dreams is like waging a momentous battle during which
you might encounter severe setbacks. But success comes to those who
turn adversities into opportunities, overcome their limitations, and bounce
back with renewed vigor.

Read and study the context.

Career Development is a lifelong process that includes physical,

cognitive, and emotional development (Seligman, 1980). There are
lots of factors that influence lifelong career development process.
These are generally classified as psychological and social factors that
are developed by affecting each other mutually. The most important
feature that affects vocational development are the skills that an
individual has. However, development of these skills can only be
possible with environment support. If one were permitted only a
single variable predict an individual’s occupational status, it surely
would be the socioeconomic status of that individual’s family of
orientation. (revisit Module 1.1) As a measurement construct,
socioeconomic status usually incorporates one or more of the
following: parents’ educational attainment and occupational status,
and family income (discussed in Module 2). All of these factors, as well
as such corresponding variables as values, opportunities, and parental
encouragement, serve to enhance or limit an individual’s potential
occupational status. (Schoenberg et al. 1984).
Each person has different difficulties and boundaries that

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 may hinder him/her from pursuing a career goal. The Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Treats (SWOT) activity enables the
learners to realize and prioritize their own interests that they owe to value
in planning for life because this will lead them to whatever career goal
they want to achieve.

The SWOT framework is credited to Albert Humphrey, who tested

the approach in the 1960s and 1970s at the Stanford Research
Institute (SRI). SWOT analysis is a process that identifies the
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the students’
chosen career field. As its name states, a SWOT analysis examines
four elements:

1. Strengths – internal attributes and resources that support

successful outcome of the chosen track and strand.
2. Weaknesses – internal attributes and resources that work against
a successful outcome of the chosen track and strand.
3. Opportunities – external factors of the career goal that can be
capitalized on or used to its advantage.
4. Threats – external factors that could jeopardize the career goal.

SWOT is usually used in the industrial/business industry which is

very effective in their business analysis that would lead a business
success. In this case, SWOT is used to analyze career development
pathing to help the learner lead their one’s career goal/journey. Having
career goals helps provide direction and focuses your attention on
attainable outcomes of the educational process.

Knowing where you are going with your academic program in

terms of clear goals helps stimulate and maintain motivation.
Motivation has been shown to be a critical component of academic
success. Therefore, clarifying your career goals can result in
immediate as well as long-term gain (Groccia, 1992).

Individuals vary in their progress in terms of clarifying goals

because of many reasons. Some advance rapidly through each phase,
while others progress more slowly. Individuals may repeat all or parts

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 of the career development process at various points throughout their
lives as values, interests, abilities, and life circumstances change.

The concept of self-efficacy is the focal point of Albert Bandura’s

social cognitive theory (1997). By means of the self-system, individuals
exercise control over their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Among the
beliefs with which an individual evaluates the control over his/her
actions and environment, self-efficacy beliefs are the most influential
predictor of human behavior as this relates to the career exposure
where the individual is influenced.

According to Bandura (1997), the level and strength of self-

efficacy will determine whether coping behavior will be initiated; how
much effort will result, and how long the effort will be sustained in the
face of obstacles.

Self-efficacy means the belief in one’s capabilities to organize and

execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments.
This is constructed on the basis of the following:

• Personal Performance―Accomplishments, previous successes or

failures (most influential)
• Vicarious Experience ―Watching others, modeling, mentoring
• Verbal Persuasion―Verbal encouragement or discouragement
• Physiological and Emotional Factors―Perceptions of stress reactions
in the body

It is important to understand the distinction between Self-Esteem

and Self-Efficacy in career planning. According to Bandura (1992):

• Self-esteem relates to a person’s sense of self-worth.

• Self-efficacy relates to a person’s perception of his/her ability to
reach a goal.

Self-Efficacy Affects Human Function in Relation to Career Planning

Choices regarding Behavior
The individuals will be more inclined to take on a task if they believe
they can succeed. They generally avoid tasks where their self-efficacy is

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low, but engage when it is high. Self-efficacy that is significantly higher
than ability can lead to psychological damage. Significantly low
selfefficacy leads to an inability to grow and expand skills. Optimum
levels of self-efficacy are a little above ability, which encourages people
to tackle challenging tasks and gain valuable experience.

Motivation
The individual with higher self-efficacy in a task are likely to expend more
effort and persist longer than with low efficacy. On the other hand, low
self- efficacy may provide an incentive to learn more and prepare better
than a person with higher self- efficacy.

Thought Patterns and Responses

Low self-efficacy can lead the individual to believe tasks are harder than
they actually are. This leads to poor planning and stress. A person with
higher self-efficacy will attribute a failure to external factors, whereas a
person with lower self- efficacy will attribute it to low ability. (Example:
Math Test)

The Destiny Idea

Bandura successfully showed that individuals with differing self-
efficacy perceive the world in fundamentally different ways. Persons
with high self-efficacy are generally of the opinion that they are in
control of their own lives: that their own actions and decisions shape
their lives. On the other hand, persons with low self-efficacy may see
their lives as somewhat out of their hands and is dependent on fate.

Guide Questions
1. What are your insights about the strand/track you are enrolled in?
2. What are your realizations?
3. Do you think these will help you as you progress in your career
journey? In what way?

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 Synthesis
As we journey towards our career, we see the road is long and rough.
There are times when we do not find enough strength to sustain us.
But through it all we strive to get up and move on. We rediscover over
strengths and build on our weaknesses to become stronger in pursuit
of reaching our goal.

IV. Application
This activity is a revisit of Session 6, activity 2. You will structure
“Ladder of Success” in relation to your Senior High School career
choice.

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Worksheet 7.2

Directions: Fill out the work sheet. You can use a separate sheet if you want.

My Ladder to Success!
A year after:

I am a full fledged
_________________
(Name the
profession)

I am employed as
_________________

Need: ____________
_________________

Valued: __________
_________________

I owned a business
_________________

Need: ____________
_________________

Valued: ___________
_________________

State other options:

_________________
_________________

"It’s not what you achieve, it what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.”
– Carlton Fisk
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V. Reflection
Note: Listen to the song “The Journey” and reflect on its lyrics.

Half the world is sleeping

Half the world’s awake
Half can hear their heart beat
Half just hear them break
I am but a traveler
Been most everywhere
Ask me what you want to know.

[Chorus]

What a journey it has been

And the end is not in sight
But the stars are out tonight
And they're bound to guide my way
When they're shining on my life
I can see a better
day I won't let the
darkness in What a
journey it has been.

I have been to sorrow

I have been to bliss
Where I'll be tomorrow
I can only guess
Through the darkest desert
Through the deepest snow
Forward, always forward I
go.
Forward, always forward
Onward, always up
Catching every drop of
hope in my empty cup.

• The song is about the crossroads that the traveler (learner) encounters
in life as he/she journeys into his/her career.
• The song puts importance on the values of patience, courage,
perseverance, and safeguarding principles.
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• It highlights one’s awareness about the realities of life and profession
and the continuous struggle to survive whatever career path the
traveler (learner) may take.

Life is what we make it. We can make it beautiful and meaningful

depending on the virtues we practice.
There are big and small tasks that we perform in our everyday lives.
There are times when we are up, and times that we are down. But we
come to realize that our failures become our leaning, and as we get up,
we turn up stronger, more responsible, and more accepting of the
consequences of the decisions we make.

Deciding on a career is a lifetime choice. We do not need to this alone.

We need each other to help us become who we want to be and to live the
life we plan it to be.

VI. Evaluation
Writing Prompts

Directions: Complete the following phrases. Recall the previous activities you did to
answer.

1. I want to become _________________________________________________.

2. I need to learn my skills in ___________________________________________.
3. I want to work at __________________________________________________.
4. I have the qualities for ______________________________________________.
5. I am ____________________________________________________________.
(State your characteristics or attitude)
6. I value ________________________ at work, because ____________________.
(State your ideals)
7. I like working at ___________________________________________________.
8. I like working with people who are _____________________________________.
9. I do not like to work at _____________________ because ___________________.
10. I do not like to work with people who ___________________________________.

As a concluding statement, read this to student.

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something
inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
– Christian D. Larson
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Note to the advisers: All worksheets will be submitted to the Guidance
Counselor/Teacher Career Guidance Advocate for profiling and
further career counseling.

References:

Music, http://www.google.com.ph/g-giftmotion-g.

Career Guidance Manual (DM 091, s. 2018). Module 7.

DM-OUCI-2021-0015

Prepared by:

Rosalina L. Guzman
SHS Guidance Advocate
09171369114

Advisers Section Contact Number

Sheila Luz P. Gorumba Algeria 09655704482
Joylyn G. Gondong Angola 09266613148
Baby Jane A. Antolin Libya 09657064107
Maria Estelita S. Cabahug Mauritius 09177771548
Christy Jean I. Ruiz Morocco 09562443155
Sordy M. Mingasca Rwanda 09178610354
Ma. Silney B. Marabeles Senegal 09202957994
Verdiebon C. Artigas Seychelles 09355783595
Richard V. Lipat Tunisia 09239139671

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