#1 Career Planning

1.      Essential Steps in Career Planning

1.      SELF

      This is the first step in career planning, in this step you must know first who you are; not just by name but by your personal interests, likes, dislikes. You must know how to control and manage yourself so that when problems come along your way towards to the achievement of your dreams, you know how to carefully handle it. You must make it have a clear mind set on what you really want to be and your needs to be complete.

2.      OPTIONS

      On the second step on career planning, allow yourself to have a list of the things that you want or that you have interest in so that you can have other choices if ever you think and realize that the first choice you decide on was not fit for your needs/ skills/ interest. On each list/options you wrote, get atleast two or three basic/ specific information about it as a background knowledge or idea for you to be prepared on the career that you are going to pursue later in your life.

3.      MATCH

      For this third step, from the list you have take down and the information you gathered about the list of choices you write, you should now identify an occupation/career that you really want to pursue. On this phase, you can atleast choose three among the list of options that fit to what you really want, it can be short term and a long term option.  

4.      ACTION

      For the final step, you are going to develop now your plans to reach or achieve the goals/ dreams that you have chosen from the list of options that you made. On this phase, you need to build up a strategy on how you are going to search for the job that you want to work. After searching you have to make and write now a resume and ofcourse you have to be prepared for the future interviews.

2.      Significance of Career Planning

Career planning is very essential to do or to exert an effort to do and attain because it will help you to make many adjustments and preparedness that you will be encounter along the way as you learn about yourself and about the world of the career you choose to enter; the Teaching Profession.

When we carefully think and plan for the goals/ career that we set, this will help us to turn these goals to dreams that come true since it helps us to have more knowledge about the career that you want to pursue and you will gain more self-confidence and self-esteem.

Career planning will help us to maximize our potential and satisfaction in our work, but for the better career plan, we should have to look for a mentor of adviser or guidance that can assists us along our way. This could be our co-teacher, our friend, and our parents who have a genuine care, concern and true to us.

3.      INTERVIEW

Name: Divina Gracia C. Ortiz

Age: 41 years old

School: Muñoz North Central School

Position: Kindergarten Teacher

Length in Service: 14 years

·         Why did you enter the teaching profession?

I choose to enter in this profession because I really love children and I enjoy imparting what I have to them. Also, to be practical, it’s because this is a life time career. As long as there are schools in the community, there is a need for  teachers.

·         How did you prepare for your teaching profession?

Since it is my own choice to be a teacher and to enter on this profession, I didn’t find any difficulties when I start working but before I enter and pass my application letter on the first school principal that I worked in, I made it clear to myself first that I should have a very long patience and an open mind because it is not only the students that we should deal with, we should also know how to deal with their parents, with the other teachers, other school personnel and even the community members. As I enter on this career, I always act and moves like a role model so that I will win the peoples respect and heart, respect are given to those people who look respected and know how to respect others.  It is not an easy job to be on this career especially when your heart doesn’t really belong to this.