Career Guidance Program

Developed by Samuel B. Batara

General Objectives
Career Guidance is but a fraction of the entire Guidance Program. It can, however serve the following purposes:

1. To help individuals make decisions and choices involved in planning a future and building a career, or in choosing an occupation, preparing for it, entering it
and preparing for it;
2. To assist the students to form valuable impressions and a general understanding about the world of work and workers, to develop positive attitudes relating to
occupations and the people who hold them, and to impress upon the student the importance of learning about his attitudes and of such values as promptness,
regularity, industry and smooth working relationships with others;
3. To facilitate students’ understanding of the many reasons for working, of the many ways to measure the value and worth of an occupation, of the things on
which the peace and satisfaction in one’s occupation depend, and of the factors that make a job well done;
4. To develop students’ awareness of the important relationships between their academic studies and their dim and distant occupation, to enable then see their
school work as a form of occupation, and to get them relate a chosen occupation to one’s total self, education, knowledge, skills and interests;
5. To select, collect and disseminate vocational information and occupational materials, to seek occupational facts through the media and other agencies, to
discriminate between unreliable and acceptable materials, and to make these available to assist students make appropriate decisions and choices;
6. To orient the students to the methods of locating and using available information sources of the school and the community for the purpose of obtaining,
analyzing, and using facts about jobs, job requirements and preparation, industries, work processes, employment trends and opportunities, qualifications and
remunerations, and other pertinent information;
7. To stimulate students’ participation in curricular and co-curricular activities that are essential in aiding one’s entry into such wider activities in the
community; and to make way for and encourage students to explore occupational interests through practical job experiences as part of the educative process;
8. To offer assistance to students in planning the job-seeking process, in finding an appropriate place in the world of work, in making choices consistent with
one’s aptitudes and interests, in achieving the particular placement one desires to make, and to follow him up to offer any needed assistance in making
necessary adjustments;
9. To create and update a list of agencies interested in job placement, and to develop cooperative working relationships between the school and employers and
with all agencies which may be able to provide information about job opportunities, requirements and trends; and,
10. To orient the students to the availability in the school of vocational guidance, placement services, and other career development opportunities.
FIRST SESSION: ACQUAINTANCE AND ORIENTATION
Specific Objectives Activities/Discussion Topics Persons Involved Time Frame Logistics Materials Needed
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Through the session, students ENCOUNTER Group members 3 Saturday of $$$ Room or Hall
a. Familiarize with each other by name, A. Acquaintanceship Group leaders semester Tables, chairs
likes and dislikes, roots and wings, “Introductions”* Facilitators Hall and light Writing board and
talents and interests “Alphabetical Order” Resource People if possible, a provided by chalk, markers,
b. share and pick program goals, basic B. Orientation on Career Guidance Guidance officers whole day affair, the school eraser, pencils,
ground rules, member roles and Program: Explanations and School before, over, and paper, name
responsibilities Open Forum Administrators after lunch Pack lunch or cards
c. discover and avail themselves of C. Information on Guidance Student Advisers pot luck by Audio visual
basic guidance services available in Services Offered; Guidance Parents members gadgets, charts,
the school Officers introduced posters
d. talk about and list down basic D. Orientation to the World of
occupations they know and indicate Work
preferences and why “Occupational Enhancement”
e. assess and express themselves, E. Self-Assessment: Voicing out of
examine their values and interests, strengths and weaknesses
strengths and weaknesses “Self-Reflection/
Confrontation…”

SECOND SESSION: LIFE GOALS

Specific Objectives Activities/Discussion Topics Persons Involved Time Frame Logistics Materials Needed
Through the session, students DECISIONS Group members 6th Saturday of $$$ Room or Hall
a. share with each other their dreams, A. Examples of Life Goals Group leaders semester Tables, chairs
aspirations, models in life “Dreams” “Limited Life” Facilitators Hall and light Writing board and
b. decide on life-time careers, and assess B. Choosing life goals Guidance officers a whole day provided by chalk, markers,
bases of choices “Favorites” “Calamity Drill” Class Advisers affair, if the school eraser, pencils,
c. formulate and structure basic C. Development of life goals Placement possible, before, paper, name
attitudes, values, outlooks, and means Sharing of thoughts Personnel over, and after Pack lunch or cards
of growing with goals “Song, Music and Me” Values Educators lunch pot luck by Audio visual
d. clarify among themselves desirable D. Values Clarification Pastors/Ministers members gadgets, charts
from undesirable values, traits and “Priorities”
 attitudes “Importance of Values”
THIRD SESSION: ORIENTATION TO OCCUPATIONAL LIFE
Specific Objectives Activities/Discussion Topics Persons Involved Time Frame Logistics Materials Needed
Through the session, students EXPLORATIONS Group members 9th Saturday of $$$ Room or Hall
a. identify and distinguish general A. Desirable Occupations, Why? Group leaders semester Tables, chairs
characteristics of occupational life “Million-Peso Exercise” Facilitators Hall and light Writing board and
b. study and analyze “job families” “Sex Role Stereotyping…” Guidance officers a whole day provided by chalk, markers,
requiring similar aptitudes, interests, B. Classification of Jobs and Class Advisers affair, if the school eraser, pencils,
abilities and preparations Requirements Placement Officer possible, before, paper, name
c. discern healthy reasons for working Group discussions Values Educators over, and after Pack lunch or cards
and factors that make a job well done C. Reasons for working Pastors/Ministers lunch pot luck by Audio visual
or poorly done Work well/poorly done Social Worker members; gadgets, charts,
d. discover ways of measuring the value “Motives for Working” catered to Token gifts to
and worth of an occupation, and D. Occupational Comparison and resource speakers
finding satisfaction in it Contrast speakers Activity materials
“Career Research Areas”

FOURTH SESSION: RELATING SELF TO OCCUPATIONAL LIFE

Specific Objectives Activities/Discussion Topics Persons Involved Time Frame Logistics Materials Needed
Through the session, students RELATIONS Group members 12th Saturday of $$$ Room or Hall
a. discover one’s own aptitudes and A. Being at home in an Occupation Group leaders semester Tables, chairs
interests and relate them to given “Past Experiences” Facilitators Hall and light Writing board and
occupational areas “Looking Back” Guidance officers a whole day provided by chalk, markers,
b. estimate one’s own aptitude and B. Zero-in/ Occupation Count Guests: Parents, affair, if the school eraser, pencils,
abilities and disregard occupational Down Library staff possible, before, Pack lunch or paper, name
fields unsuited in light of assessment “Career Reflection” Liaison officer over, and after pot luck by cards
c. examine and utilize sources of “Shot-gun Decision’ lunch members Audio visual
occupational materials and C. Library/ Guidance Resources gadgets, charts,
information on a range of job fields “Pamphlet on Occupations” Activity materials
Reading thru magazines/Digests
FIFTH SESSION: JOB FAIR
Specific Objectives Activities/Discussion Topics Persons Involved Time Frame Logistics Materials Needed
Through the session, students EMPLOYMENT SYSTEMS Group members 15th Saturday of $$$ Room or Hall
a. observe and appreciate exhibits and A. Exhibition/Demonstration Group leaders semester Tables, chairs
demonstrations related with various Audio-visual presentations Facilitators Hall and light Writing board and
industries and workplaces (Industry Booths erected) Guidance officers a whole day provided by chalk, markers,
b. gather first-hand information from B. Talks and Open Forum on Guests: Parents, affair, if the school eraser, pencils,
employers on respective firms, Respective Industries friends possible, before, paper, name
processes and expectations (in booths or hall) Representatives over, and after Pack lunch or cards
c. inquire further on and align their C. Personal Inquiries/ Interviews from private & lunch pot luck by Audio visual
abilities, skills and qualifications with Person to person follow up public offices, members or gadgets, charts,
industry requirements Chat/ Questioning firms, industries, compliment Activity /demos
d. appraise one’s choice of a field of D. Field Choices/ Preferences agencies of firms materials/exhibits
endeavor and strengthen one’s Personal/Group reflections
commitment towards end Brainstorming
employment
SIXTH SESSION: MAKING JOB PLACEMENT EASIER
Specific Objectives Activities/Discussion Topics Persons Involved Time Frame Logistics Materials Needed
Through the session, students DECISION AND ACTION Group members 18th Saturday of $$$ Room or Hall
a. analyze and evaluate choices of an A. Strengthening Work Choices Group leaders semester Tables, chairs
occupational field “Strength Bombardment” Facilitators Hall and light Writing board and
b. gather courage to approach potential B. Employee-Employer Guidance officers a whole day provided by chalk, markers,
employers, to write a letter of Relations and Communication Student Officers affair, if the school eraser, pencils,
application, to fill out jub application “Tips Hunting” (Members Administrators possible, before, paper, name
forms, to conduct oneself during job compile job related tips) Class Advisers over, and after Pack lunch or cards
interviews, how and when to follow C. Workplace Environments and Employment lunch pot luck by Audio visual
up job application Worker Relations Agency officers members gadgets, charts,
c. detect how to properly live and work Guests invited to speak Communication Activity specified
with various others and superiors D. Job-hunting: Recruitment/ Officers materials
d. discover how to locate appropriate Employment Agency Guest Employers Evaluation sheets
job opportunities and referrals to assistance
potential employers directly or “Overseas Legends”
through employment agencies E. Evaluation: Discussion of
e. assess the career guidance program Program Improvements
they have participated in

* NB: Italicized activities in quotation marks suggested under Activities/Discussion Topics are growth group exercises whose mechanics are detailed in Sam B.
Batara’s book Fellowship Activity Ideas

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