Session 5 Presentation

1. Session 5:
Environment and Self
7th Edition
Take Hold of Your Future
JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, Ed.D.

2. 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 Holland’s theory of personality types.
• Describe the Archway of Career Determinants and its
meaning for personal career choices.
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Objectives

3. • Self-Concept – a picture or image of one’s self, a combination
of what we think we are, what others think we are, and what we
want to be.
Definitions
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4. • 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.
How Self-Concept is Formed
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5. • Super
– 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.
How Self-Concept is Formed (Cont’d)
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6. • 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.
How Self-Concept is Formed (Cont’d)
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7. • 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?
Discussion of Student Collages
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8. • 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 person’s type matches an
environment’s type.
Holland’s Theory
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9. • 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.
The Six Personality Types
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10. • 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; has good persuasive
skills.
• Conventional (C) – likes to work with data, facts, numbers;
good organizational skills.
The Six Personality Types (Cont’d)
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11. Relationship of Six Holland Clusters
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From Career Choice and Development: Applying Contemporary Theories to Practice (2nd. ed.). Duane Brown,
Linda Brooks, and Associates (Eds.), Copyright © 1990, Jossey-Bass Inc. Reprinted with permission of John Wiley
& Sons, Inc.
The Archway of Career Determinants