CSBGRAD: Career and Vocation Planning 1
Name: Vivien Franchesca B. De Guzman Date: 18/09/2022
Instructions: Find a comfortable place and reflect on how you would like to direct your life after college. Fill-out the
table below by writing your targets for your career and vocation. List down as many targets as you plan to achieve.
SMART Goals Strategies Resources Needed Expected Results
CAREER
1 year after I am going to try and Avoid unnecessary Support from family Have savings little by
graduation maintain my first job spending on things I close friends and little.
and earn enough to won’t use and loved ones.
send me to grad discipline myself in
school. (Master’s terms of bad
degree) spending habits
5 years after I am going to apply Continue a good and Good working Pass the promotion
graduation for promotion and ethical working environment and and have a slightly
still save for grad behavior and always support from higher income to
school. be willing to go great colleagues save for grad school.
lengths
10 years after I am finally filling my Work, work and work Support from family Finally in grad school
graduation grad school hard but still find close friends and
application along time to rest before loved ones.
with a part time job the big leap.
VOCATION
1 year after Study more about Be diligent and Maintain good Being a lot more
graduation investing and lifelong patient while emotional practice knowledgeable with
plans learning. things I need for my
future
Accept mistakes and
learn from it as well
5 years after Invest more in a Always have a Support from partner Being able to start
graduation house than a car mindset that if you’re (incase I’d have one buying maybe a lot
about to buy in 5 years’ time) and or started
something that’s support from family construction of the
going make your and friends. house.
future’s worth, think
about how you’re
not rich to avoid
unnecessary
spending.
Be wise in decision
making. Just because
is cheap doesn’t
always mean it
doesn’t have the
quality. Same goes
otherwise.
10 years after Save for future use Again be wise. Just Myself and my own Being able to provide
graduation and learn to because you have family(In case I them what they want
appreciate what extra does not mean started my own) and need.
you’ve achieved. you’ll not need it for
emergency purposes.
CSBGRAD: Career and Vocation Planning 2
It’s better to have
extra rather than
running short.
Guidelines in setting SMART goals:
• Be specific. Include the smallest details.
• Make your goals measurable. How do you know that you have reached your target?
• Think of what is attainable and be realistic. Aim high, dream big, but don’t frustrate yourself by reaching for
impossible targets.
• Make your goals time bound. Don’t give yourself a forever moving deadline. What can you achieve in a year? In 5
years? In 10 years?
After accomplishing the table above, answer the questions below for your reflection:
1. What do you need to do now to prepare yourself and achieve what you imagine as your career and vocation?
First I need to be emotionally prepared for everything I am about to face because I know that the future can always
change but the least I could do now is be honest with what I work on for my future because I know I’ll be facing
things that may be unpleasant or pleasant, I just hope that when the time comes, I am emotionally capable to
handle myself and my emotions. Second if I am being rational, I also and always wanted to be financially stable
because finances are harder to manage nowadays considering the inflation and other necessary things we need such
as food which prices are continuously growing every single day.
2. Do the Benildean Expression (BenEx) of the Lasallian Core Values fit into your career and vocation plans? How? If
not, why not?
The Benildean Expression of the Lasallian Core Values definitely fit into my career and vocational plans because even
when I just started my Benildean journey, these expressions were already taught to us by our professors and how
we are able to differentiate the real world to my current situation, me being a student. These values are being
shown by the professors itself on how we can be able to cope even when we experience a drastic change from being
an undergrad to being employed.