a summary of life span
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A Summary of Life Span, Life, Approach to Career Development
A career is defined as the sequential choices, an individual makes, to perform certain roles,
during his or her professional life. These roles include the role of child, student, father and so on.
There are nine role an individual generally plays, during his or her life span, which are as follows
1) Child
2) Student
3) One searching for leisure time
4) Citizen
5) Worker
6) Spouse7) Homemaker
8) Parent
9) Pensioner
Some other roles are brother or sister, lover and so on, but none of these roles are sex linked for
instance in developed countries, females are working and continuing their professional quest,
while the husband could dry the dishes, at the same time some cultures divide, the
responsibilities in the light of biological differences for example the female should cook and take
care of the child.
Theaters
Every role is played according to the surroundings or occasions consider, a father role which has
to be played in the home primarily, yet some roles overlap, may be a banker shares an work
related issue, with the family, in reality he is acting as a banker, a husband and father at a same
point of time. Four main theaters are
1) Home
2) The Community
3) Workplace
4) School or university
Every role changes its nature, intensity and requirement, as our life progresses, for example, the
son is supposed to take care of the parents and yet parents’ role in their offspring life diminishes.
The word role has two distinguished dimensions
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The Expectations of others
This vary dimension refers to the expectations of others, that this person in this capacity would
perform best, if he fulfils certain criteria, for example the presence of care on the behalf of parents for their children is considered necessary for being a parent.
The Conceptions of the Player
This takes hold of a person’s beliefs in a specific role, regarding the performance of that
capacity.
In the case of multi-occupational careers, a worker is faced with fulfilling two or more positions
at one point in time, which gives birth to a role conflict, where one role is interfering with
another and causing an individual to confuse.
Link of Early Performance, with Later Performance
If an individual has engaged himself, with related activities, with that he does for living, it will
therefore enhance with his on job performance, same goes with the early part time jobs a student
takes up for making through the college, have immense impact on career choice he will make at
the later stage of the career.
Decision Points
These points occur, in every body’s life, where we have to take one career option at an expense of
another, for example a student drops out of school to work on a business idea of his own.
Applications of the Concept
There are two application of the concept discussed earlier which is Career Management in the
Light of various roles.
1) Teaching the Concept
Help students to grab the linkages between career stages and age
2) Career Counseling
Foster the ability, in youngsters to analyze their careers and project these in the future.
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