5 Rising Toward the Reality of

My Dreams
Introduction

This module is about helping the learners identify the skills and abilities that will help
them in determining the most realistic profession and career for them.

The learners’ knowledge of their skills and abilities will enable them to easily make career
decisions that match their potentials and expertise. Facilitating the learners’ skills assessment
will aid them in making career choices that will empower them to maximize the available local
and foreign opportunities after they exit from the senior high school curriculum.

I. OBJECTIVES

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

1. identify the qualifications, abilities, and skills necessary in the preferred profession,
and vocation;
2. make a decision about the preferred career; and
3. share insights and experiences on the process of choosing the preferred
profession/career.

II. Lecturette

Examining one’s life is an important prelude to success. Socrates once said that an
unexamined life is not worth living. Hence, in making a career decision, a process of self-
introspection is essential. It is all about exploring and assessing one’s skills, interests,
abilities, and values, and combining these to result in a satisfying life and career in the
future.

The most important thing in the field of human resource today is the inner totality of
a person. Consider the following scenarios.

Scenario 1
Andrew and Maynard work in the same company as senior computer specialists.
Andrew does his work efficiently and effectively. However, he gets irritated when the
manager asks him to revise a work or mentor a new employee. Others try to avoid
him because of this. Maynard, on the hand, is less than a year in the company but
already has good rapport with majority of the employees. When others or the
manager comments on his work, he humbly accepts and tries to adjust accordingly.

If you were the manager in the company, who would you prefer to be promoted?
Scenario 2

Nicole was very happy because she was able to put up a small restaurant in their
community. Her customers grew in number and they kept coming back because they
like the service aside from the cheap but delicious food. One customer suggested for
Nicole to market her business through social media. She wondered how she would do
that since she is not familiar with social media applications.

The scenarios presented support the trend that employers prefer to hire applicants
primarily based on attitude rather than aptitude. Many industries, employers, and human
resource managers share the same perspective in hiring new employees. It also show that
technical skills are essential in operating a business.
The success of a company includes commitment, focus on the job, humility, and
industry of its employees. Studies regarding hiring methodologies have made few facts
such that skilled and experienced employees with negative attitude and perspective fail
quickly while the lesser experienced ones with excellent attitudes succeed better in the
long run (Toren, 2015).

Whatever place you go, you carry your attitude with you. So it is important to be aware
about the totality of your persons as future workers in different industries and other
workplaces, including the skills that you possess―those that need to be developed and
those that need to be improved. By doing so, you will be tailored to become competent
employees in today’s industry preferences, and eventually become best managers in the
future. One who plans to venture into enterprising activity must also consider these skills
as human resources will play a critical part in the success of the business organization.

There are two major classifications of skills (Doyle, 2016)―hard skills and soft skills.

Hard skills refer to the functional abilities and are generally taught and learned in
school, from experience, and from reading books, and which are evaluated through levels
of competencies. A concrete example of this is one’s speed in producing work outputs. It
also applies to the number or kind of machines a person can operate. These skills are
constant across work settings, situations, and workers and are acquired over time.
Examples are the following:

1. encoding
2. machine operation
3. heavy equipment operation
4. carpentry
5. computer programming
6. analyzing
7. computing
Soft skills refer to the personal characteristics and traits of an individual and which
are not measurable. Over time and with a positive mindset, these can be developed and
enhanced through various opportunities such as values formation and team building.
However, the employee himself/herself should have the “will” and the right attitude to
make the necessary adjustment in order to build on these values and traits.

Examples are as the following:

1. teamwork
2. communication
3. flexibility
4. patience
5. persuasion
6. time management
7. perseverance
8. decision making
9. honesty
10. humility

Your career should be a platform for you to forward your best skills, knowledge about
self, and your abilities. Developing and improving your hard skills and creating a balance
of your soft skills will not only ensure a promising career, but a healthy, meaningful, and
happy life.

In as much as skills are important in the world of work and the business industry,
consider also the job qualifications relevant to your career preferences. These are basic
requirements entailed by a certain job that also include work experience, personal
qualities, lines of expertise, and educational credentials.

Sample qualifications for specific careers are included in the Appendix portion of this
module for reference.

Note:
1. For additional resources on job qualifications, you may visit the following links:
http://work.chron.com/job-qualification-examples-12829.html, http://info.dogpile.com,
www.dole.gov.ph

Guide Questions
1. Are you aware about your hard skills? your soft skills?
2. Are these skills relevant to the career you want to pursue?
3. What do you intend to do with the skills that youdo not possess or are not yet
prominent in you?
4. Do you think you are on the right track about your career goal? Why?

III. Application
Task 1
1. Write the hard and soft skills that you possess, including your interests and
qualifications.
2. Submit the filled out sheets for compilation in the students’ portfolio. These will be
available as ready reference by the Guidance Councilor/Guidance Advocate for career
counseling and for other related purposes.

Self-Assessment Skills Inventory (SASI)

Name:

Chosen Profession/Career:

Skills Interests Qualifications

Hard Skills Soft Skills

Sample Self-Assessment Skills Inventory (SASI)

Name: Kyle Velasco

Chosen Profession/Career: Electrical Engineer

Skills Interests Qualifications

Hard Skills Soft Skills
Computing Skills Decision making Making designs Graduate of BS
Skills Electrical
Engineering
Course
Analytical Skills Flexible Reading science Board
journals Examination
Passer
Computer Honest With OJT
Programming Skills experience in local
engineering firm
Composing technical
diagrams
Creating and
explaining design
Ideas

Task 2
“I-Resume” – Individual Resume Writing

A resume is a powerful tool that markets an applicant’s skills, strengths, and

competencies to prospective employers. It provides brief, yet substantive information
about how the applicant can contribute to a company or organization.

The importance of resume is sum up by Slack in the article How to Write a Resume:

Think of your resume this way: It is a means to advertise yourself as to what you
can offer to an organizational setting. Remember that your goal is to be interviewed for a
prospective job. To do this, you must view your resume as a marketing tool to move you
closer to your dreams. Therefore, you need to see it as your marketing tool. However, the
resume alone, is not the sole factor to land a job. The point is, it’s a first step that you need
to master with competencies
Sample Skills-based Resume

Kyle Velasco
135 Sonny St. Brgy. Bitoon, Province of Bontoc
Cell # 09090403112

Education
Senior High School Graduate – Science and Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) strand. School: Stella Mariz College, Bontoc, School Year ___________

Training and Leadership Skills

Can perform various computer program functions, including Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Publisher, Corel Draw
Fluent in written and oral communication using the English language, Filipino,
and Sadanga, Ilocano
Can work under pressure and task challenges
Willing to work overtime when needed
Can work and formulate decisions with little supervision
Receptive of others’ suggestions and opinions
Able to work and adjust in working with others

Organizational Affiliation
Math Club – as Public Information Officer, links with other clubs and
organizations and disseminates relevant information to club members
Supreme Student Government – as member, actively supported all initiated
in-campus and off-campus programs and projects

VI. Reflection :

Answer the following questions. Write your answers in the activity sheet.

1. What interest, skills, and qualification for your chosen career were you able to
identify as you were writing your resume?
2. What did you feel while preparing your resume?
3. How will this help you in your chosen career?
4. Do you think your resume will pass the requirements needed for your job? Why?
Name:___________________________________ Year level and Section:__________________

Module 5
Grade 11 Career Guidance Program
Activity Sheet

Task 1
1. Write the hard and soft skills that you possess, including your interests and
qualifications.
2. Submit the filled out sheets for compilation in the students’ portfolio. These will be
available as ready reference by the Guidance Councilor/Guidance Advocate for career
counseling and for other related purposes

Self-Assessment Skills Inventory (SASI)

Name:

Chosen Profession/Career:

Skills Interests Qualifications

Hard Skills Soft Skills

Task 2: “I-Resume” – Individual Resume Writing
Reflection:

Answer the following questions.

1. What interest, skills, and qualification for your chosen career were you able to
identify as you were writing your resume?
2. What did you feel while preparing your resume?
3. How will this help you in your chosen career?
4. Do you think your resume will pass the requirements needed for your job? Why?