working in 21st century
Scope
This assignment aims to analyse the careers of three individuals by exploring the personal and situational factors considered in Super’s Archway Model as well as the Krumboltz's Theory, and discuss how these factors interact and affect career decision-making. The analysis is then applied to the discussion how to use the various types of intelligences in achieving career success and advancement.
Interviewee 1
Name: Jane Chua
Highest Educational Qualification: Honors in Accountancy
Age: 40 years old
Gender: Female
Race: Chinese
Nationality: Singaporean
Work experience: 21 years
Past occupation: Accountant/ General Accounts Manager
Current occupation: Assistant Finance Manager
Brief Background
Jane is currently working as an Assistant Finance Manager with Ng Lee & Associates and has been there for almost 2 years.
Being the mother of two children, Jane placed a huge emphasis on being able to spend quality time with her family. Thus, the major factors which influenced Jane's career history is job satisfaction and work life balance.
When asked to classify herself under three of the six personalities and environments that Holland developed which suits her best, she chose Conventional, Social and Realistic.
Career History of Individual:
Jane graduated at the age of 22 and started her first job as an assistant accountant with Panasonic where she was only in charge of only one of the subsidiary's account. Due to outstanding performance, she was promoted several times within a span of 3 years. This was parallel to the company's policy to provide opportunities for career development to retain talents. However, even with good promotion prospects, Jane does not hold much authority in decision-making. With meeting tight deadlines and superiors' expectation the only challenges, job task were mundane and this resulted in a lack of motivation for her. Although this job provided her the work-life balance she wanted, she did not enjoyed the nature of
This assignment aims to analyse the careers of three individuals by exploring the personal and situational factors considered in Super’s Archway Model as well as the Krumboltz's Theory, and discuss how these factors interact and affect career decision-making. The analysis is then applied to the discussion how to use the various types of intelligences in achieving career success and advancement.
Interviewee 1
Name: Jane Chua
Highest Educational Qualification: Honors in Accountancy
Age: 40 years old
Gender: Female
Race: Chinese
Nationality: Singaporean
Work experience: 21 years
Past occupation: Accountant/ General Accounts Manager
Current occupation: Assistant Finance Manager
Brief Background
Jane is currently working as an Assistant Finance Manager with Ng Lee & Associates and has been there for almost 2 years.
Being the mother of two children, Jane placed a huge emphasis on being able to spend quality time with her family. Thus, the major factors which influenced Jane's career history is job satisfaction and work life balance.
When asked to classify herself under three of the six personalities and environments that Holland developed which suits her best, she chose Conventional, Social and Realistic.
Career History of Individual:
Jane graduated at the age of 22 and started her first job as an assistant accountant with Panasonic where she was only in charge of only one of the subsidiary's account. Due to outstanding performance, she was promoted several times within a span of 3 years. This was parallel to the company's policy to provide opportunities for career development to retain talents. However, even with good promotion prospects, Jane does not hold much authority in decision-making. With meeting tight deadlines and superiors' expectation the only challenges, job task were mundane and this resulted in a lack of motivation for her. Although this job provided her the work-life balance she wanted, she did not enjoyed the nature of