Career Development Theory Comparison

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Career Development Theory Comparison After I reviewed all of these theories that include the vocational choice, social cognitive, trait and factor, happenstance, and developmental self-concept, I found that all of these theories are different in many ways in comparison. The vocational choice theory (RIA SEC) by John Holland focuses on the fact that there are six different personality types which include realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. The realistic personality type prefers to work with their hands by making things, such as a job in assembly. The investigative personality type would rather discover and research new ideas. Of course, the artistic personality type would rather use art, music, drama, or even words to express themselves. The social personality type prefers to training people while caring for their well-being. The enterprising personality type likes to meet people and prefers to encourage and influence others. And finally the conventional personality type likes to be accurate with numbers and prefers to organize and plan events. Although most people fit in to one of the personality types, I feel that I fit in to not just one of these personality types, but a combinational of them in some particular way. The artistic personality type best suits me, but there are other personality types such as, enterprising that suits me as well. People that work together in a job that have the same personality type create a work environment that fits their type, such as when two artistic people are together on a job, they create a work environment of creative behavior and thinking. Individuals that choose to work in an environment that is similar to their personality type are more likely to be satisfied and successful in the workplace (Holland, 2011). The Social Cognitive Theory by Albert Bandura, is based on the
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