This presentation provides perspective for parents to understand the career development of their child and how they get involved in their child's career development.

1. Dr. Carlo Magno
crlmgn@yahoo.com

2.  Your child’s career development
 Decision making in school
 Parent’s involvement in the child’s career

3. According to Super:
1. Growth (fantasy, interests,
and curiosity)
2. Exploration (crystallizing,
specifying, and implementing)
3. Establishment (stabilising,
consolidating, frustration, and
advancing)
4. Maintenance (holding,
updating, stagnation, and
innovating),
5. Decline (decelerating,
retirement planning, and
retirement living)

4.  Grade school:
 What occupation will you dress up for the career day?
 What is the ideal job in the future that I will write in
my essay?
 High school
 Grade 10:What track will I enter in senior high school?
 Grade 12:Will I go to college?Work? Or start my
business?
 College:What work is suitable to my course?Will I
pursue further studies?

5.  Understanding parents’ involvement theor
child’s career

6.  Answer the items:
 Read each statement and rate how true are each
statement about you as a parent. Answer as
honestly as possible to each statement to get an
accurate interpretation of the results.Write the
corresponding number of your choice on the
blank before each statement.
 4 Very true of me
 3 True of me
 2 Not true of me
 1 Not very true of me

7.  ___ 1. I encourage my child to find their suitable career.
 ___ 2. I watch my child while acting the occupation they want to pursue.
 ___ 3. I help my child answer his/her questions about the future job they
want to pursue.
 ___ 4. I explain to my child the different occupations available.
 ___ 5. I check if my child have decided on their college course.
 ___ 6. I remind my child constantly to complete all their requirements
for college application.
 ___ 7. I ensure that my child will work in a conducive place.
 ___ 8. I set expectations on the specific career my child will pursue.
 ___ 9. I remind my child to make good grades to have a good job in the
future.
 ___ 10. I provide the resources my child needs to be successful in their
future career.

8.  Add your answers for items 1-2
 Add your answers for items 3-6
 Add your answers for items 7-10

9.  Items 1-2 “Autonomy-support”
 Items 3-6 “Direct Involvement”
 Items 7-10 “Provision for structure”
 Which style is your highest score? ________

10.  Autonomy-support
 Extent to which parents value and use
techniques that encourage in their children
independent problem solving, choice, and
participation in career decisions.
 Parents provide encouragement
 Parents just watch and monitor

11.  Direct Involvement
 Extent to which parents are interested in,
knowledgeable about, and takes an active
part in their children’s career.
 Parents open the diary/assignment notebook
 Parents sits with the child while doing the
homework
 Parents teach

12.  Clear career-related goal
 Motivation to pursue goals
 Goal attainability
 Career goal effort
 Career goal progress
 Career self-efficacy (confidence in reading
goals)

13.  Provision of information
 Emotional support
 Financial support
 Promoting career expectations

14.  Plan: Help the child have a planful attitude
toward coping with career stages and tasks
 Gain information: Allow the child gather
information about educational and vocational
opportunities
 Explore: Facilitate the exploration about the
world of work
 Make decisions: Engage the child to make good
career decisions
 Be realistic: Guide the child to make realistic
judgments about their self and suitable
occupations.

15.  Determining what course they want for
college
 What job the child want to have in the future
 Letting the child describe what they want to
do in college and where they want to study
 Helping the child clarify future goals
 List of what the child needs to do now in
order to get to their goal.

16.  Giving access to information about their ideal
job, ideal work setting, scenario
 Telling the child which college course
matches job requirements
 Informing the child on requirements in the
profession such as years of study, licensure
examination, some difficulties
 Let the child read information about their
interests (internet time)

17.  Bringing the child to sites where they see their ideal job
 Suggesting movies, series, videos where the job is
highlighted.
 Providing the child tasks or chores at home that is related
with the work
 Classifying plants at home
 Schedule of medicine intake
 Cooking
 Fixing and cleaning the car
 Taking photographs
 Making videos
 Cleaning the house, fixing the bedm food service (HRM)
 Allowing the child to join field trips and extra curricular
activities inschool

18.  Teaching the child weigh pros and cons
 Letting the child see some consequences
 Providing options in different:
 schools
 Courses
 Alternatives
 Asking the child their decision and how they
arrived at that decision
 Let the child make their own decision and if
they fail, be there and let them try again.

19.  Conversing with your child their interest and
capabilities and how it matches with their
choices
 Reminding the child the difficulties they may
encounter
 Discovering the child’s strengths and
maintaining it.
 Showing the child the consequences of their
decisions

20. K to 3 Close intervention
Grades 4 to 6 Mild intervention
Grade 7 to 10 Mild to no intervention
Grades 11 to 12 No intervention to inquiry
College No intervention to Inquiry