Putting it all Together Looking at the Big Picture

Read the story of Sarah at pages 214-215

 “Go where the winds take you.
Always bloom where you will be planted”
Starting Where You Are
This chapter culminates the topics covered by this
book which is aimed at facilitating your personal growth
and gearing toward your career development.
As you prepare for a career, take a look at the needs
and the situations out there in the world that you will have
to respond to with the vocation or job you will choose to
take.
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Competence at Work
The trend in education is geared towards developing essential
skills to respond to the expanding global career trend in the twenty-
first century.
It becomes even more a requisite with the ongoing ASEAN
integration and the establishment of an economic community in the
ASEAN region.
On that note, you have to build up your edge that will make
you even more fit in your target job in light of a bigger job market
that can be a cut-throat competition.
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Programs in the Philippine education target the
development of this skills which you need to acquire to be
able to respond to the demands of an expanding, diverse,
competitive, economic global community.
The Department of Education aims that students like
you attain the development of the following skills critical
career preparation.
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Information, Media, and Technology Skills
We live in the modern age with the fast development
of technology. It has digitized world in a massive scale.
One offshoot that arises out of his modern technology is
the influx of information which requires the capability of
handling and learning from the surge of knowledge it
offers.
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You will also have to equip yourself with the proper
way of handling media and technology and make use of
them effectively.
One specific skill is knowing how to access
information efficiently and effectively.
This means that you are able to get information from
variety of media sources promptly and properly.
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You must be careful in accepting what is presented to
you in the internet, and other media sources.
You analyze and evaluate its truth, meaning, and
value first.
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Learning and Innovation Skills
These are sets of skills that will enable you to grasp
the topics you encounter and other things taught in school,
as well as understand the meaning of your experience as
well as learn from them.
The skills include analytical or critical, as well as
creative thinking.
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Critical or Analytical Thinking
- means making careful analysis to understand
something better. It has abilities which includes:
classifying, comparing/contrasting, defining, explaining,
problem solving, evaluating, among others.
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Creative Thinking
- involves creating new ingenious ideas. It is a
springboard to innovation. To think creatively is to tap
your imagination, which forms like a keystone for novelty,
for developing something new.
Applying these two skills enables you to adapt a holistic
framework and arrive at a balanced work output.
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Effective Communication Skills
Your communication skills (oral and written
communication) will enable you to express your ideas by
communicating them in writing or speaking. You will need
these skills even beyond the classroom. You will certainly
benefit from honing these skills when you enter college
and when you take a job.
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Life and Career Skills
Success in not found in the books all the time. You
have the skill to make you better and in choosing the
career path. Important skills include a good sense of
adaptability.
It is a fast changing world! You should always be
ready to adjust. Flexibility is the key.
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Take initiative rather than waiting for thing to happen.
It helps in getting you ahead.
Be proactive to be productive.
Combining those skills will help make you a good
leader.
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Responsible Technology-Driven Work

Force
It is now the information age. The world that we used
to know has expanded. The young generations today
benefits from having a technology on their side. Machine
reduce physical works; computers speed up
communications and can bring a huge amount of
information; and gadgets make things quick and easy.
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Aside from technological and technical skills, it is
important that professionalism remains at the helm of your
work.
Respect and responsibility should echo your use of
those technologies.
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Responsive Human Resource

Human resource is the workplace that makes up an
organization, business or economy. It is composed of
individuals responsible in performing specific functions
and responsibilities in an organization or company. Aside
from that, they are now also involved in social
undertakings that uplift my many lives.
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In the past years, we witnesses how different disasters
struck many parts of our country which left an aftermath of
struggle for many Filipinos.
The Filipinos’ bayanihan spirit is always alive. It even
takes a form of its own that exemplifies the good nature that is
in all of us.
This Filipino spirit of generosity and readiness to help is
now embraced by many organizations, businesses and different
sectors in the society wherein the frame work of helping has
been established.
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On Social responsibility and Entrepreneurship
Despite ongoing advancements, poverty remains a
pervasive social problem. Social responsibility holds the ethical
principle of doing good for the benefit of the society.
Many individuals, professionals and companies take part
in socially uplifting the lives of many people by doing volunteer
work, extending outreach work, and even creating business
solution to solve social problems.
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The latter is what we call social entrepreneurship. Social
entrepreneurs are visionaries who employ business techniques
to find ways in developing products or services that contribute
in improving the lives of people and communities.
Nowadays, companies adapt corporate social
responsibility that engages employees in community outreach
work. This kind of corporate program allows people to be
socially involved and to contribute to service-oriented activities.
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On Disaster and Emergency Response
You are also called to take part in humanitarian-
related work when situation calls for it. Your works always
has something to contribute. Reach out to help.
Activities: In A Nutshell

The Journey through Adolescence

First, what do you know about adolescence? Use the
mind-mapping technique to show it. Do not forget to use
crayons, images, keywords to enhance your explanation.
You may use a separate piece of paper for this activity.
Activities: In A Nutshell
The Road toward a Holistic and Balance Personal
Development
Personal development is a result of many things. Putting
together all the factors affecting your own processes and
experiences, what accounts for your development? What helps
you toward self-development? Come up with a framework of your
personal development. Make a clustered list and create a visual
presentation. Include other activities you will need to consider so
you can be holistic and achieve balance in your life.
Activities: In A Nutshell
Make Something Out of It: Symbol of My
Personal Growth
Draw a visual that symbolizes your personal growth.
Taking What You Have
Self Discovery in an important tool in your journey toward a
career. You have become aware of who you are. More than that,
you have come to know your strengths and passion. Integrating
your own experiences of growing, realizing what you want,
identifying your strengths, and knowing your passion, what do
you want to become in future? What do you want to achieve?
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!