You will be creating a career genogram which will help you identify how your bac
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You will be creating a career genogram which will help you identify how your background and family expectations have affected your attitude and decision making about careers.
Education/Career Genogram and Analysis
An education/career genogram is designed to help you understand your educational and occupational background. Exploring your family history may help you to gain insight into your own current perspectives on both educational and career goals.
You must take it as far back as your grandparents but can go further if you so choose, exploring the messages and influences from your family. The focus of this assignment is on your family, not yourself.
You will create your genogram on a large poster board, as we will be hanging these around the room. Please make sure to put your name on the BACK of the poster board.
Genogram Basics:
Circles are women, squares are men.
Link individuals together with a straight line.
Divorce can be indicated by a slash through the line.
Subsequent marriage/partnerships can be indicated by a circle/square connected with a line to the other side of the previous one.
Deaths are indicated by an “X” in the circle or square with the death year written beside or beneath the birth year.
Write the following information with/in/near each individual’s shape:
Name
Birth Year & Death Year (if applicable)
Highest Education Level
Occupations, Skills, Talents
Vocational Attitudes and Values (see below for examples of how to answer this)
Work is…
Money…
Success is…
To be a good person…
My advice to you about your work is…
Finally, reflect on the following questions about your genogram and briefly answer them on the back of your poster board by numbering them and writing them out in complete sentences.
What was easy or difficult about this task?
How would you describe your family’s educational experience?
How would you describe your family’s work experience?
What patterns of occupations/skills/attitudes do you see?
What behaviors and attitudes were reinforced for males? Females?
How do your education/career aspirations fit in with your family history in these areas?
What is your family’s message regarding your career choice?
Do any family members have unfulfilled goals, aspirations, or fantasies that they are living without or trying to live vicariously through others?
Do you see anything that helps you better understand yourself or a family member?
What surprises did you discover?
Is there a family member you most want to emulate? What draws you to that person/career?
If you become what these people want you to become, will you be happy?
What values/interests/attitudes do you seem to have “inherited” from your family?
Explanation / Answer
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What was easy or difficult about this task?
It was difficult to go back 2 generations and think from their perspective
How would you describe your family’s educational experience?
Overall educationally they are well qualified and have a good variety of skills that they contributed to the gene pool.
How would you describe your family’s work experience?
They come from varied work backgrounds like engineering, accountancy, psychology etc. and all are doing well in their respecitve fields.
What patterns of occupations/skills/attitudes do you see?
Engineers, Psychologist, Scientis, Farmer, Professor
What behaviors and attitudes were reinforced for males? Females?
Males have good analytical skills and critical thinking while females have good communication skills
How do your education/career aspirations fit in with your family history in these areas?
My aspiration is to be a doctor which is different from the family's historical occupations
What is your family’s message regarding your career choice?
My family is supporting me in my choice as they belive in careers with a goal of serving people
Do any family members have unfulfilled goals, aspirations, or fantasies that they are living without or trying to live vicariously through others?
Not really
Do you see anything that helps you better understand yourself or a family member?
Yes, that both sets of my grandparents believe that being a good person starts with love
What surprises did you discover?
That our family is very talented as well as technically skilled
Is there a family member you most want to emulate? What draws you to that person/career?
My mother, because she enjoys what she does and gives it her full
If you become what these people want you to become, will you be happy?
Yes, I will be happy because they want me to become a doctor.
What values/interests/attitudes do you seem to have “inherited” from your family?
Good problem solvng skills from my father's pool and good communication skills from my mother's pool.
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