Career Genograms can give us a different perspective on our family history.
Career Genograms can give us a different perspective on our family history.
Career Thought #1 – Parental & Guardian Influence/Career Genogram
– Career Planning
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Career Thought #1 – Parental and Guardian Influence
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Parents or whomever raised you (father, relative of family friend or foster parent) often give us the first example of what the world of work means. As children, we watched our parents/guardians get up, dress a certain way, go to work in a certain mood, return home in a certain mood, make comments about the work day and gathered an impression about work is like and its purpose.
Career Genograms can give us a different perspective on our family history. You family history influences many areas of your life. A Career Genogram may help you understand and develop your career options. A genogram usually spans three generations and may include family members’ educational background, occupations, and other career related opinions and it helps examine the careers that each member pursued and their thoughts/feelings about their career. They can also help: provide a visual picture of career influences, reveal patterns and themes in your family system, reflect on family influences, and explore how family and heritage influence your career decision making.
Create a Career Genogram using the directions and sample below. Feel free to get as creative as you want, you don’t have to make it look exactly like the sample but what it should have is:
- Three generations if possible
- Occupations, ages, and quick thoughts about their feelings/thoughts about their career
Then answer the following questions in a ONE PAGE summary.
- In thinking about your family career influences what were your early impressions about what work meant? Describe in detail what the messages were – good, bad, indifferent, etc. Emotions?
- What were your parent’s job titles? Did they like or love their work? How did you know? Did they dislike their work? How did you know?
- What do you think were the overall positive influences around the world of work from your family structure? Is there one person in particular that has had a really positive impact on you regarding your education and your career ideas? Who and why?
- Was the Career Genogram helpful? Why or why not?
- What are some themes you notice from the Career Genogram (educational, historical, economic, . . etc)? Any surprises?
- How do your education/career aspirations fit with your family history? Do any family members have unfulfilled goals or aspirations that they are living without or trying to live vicariously through others?
- What are the specific pressures that you feel from your family around career and/or major choice? How can these pressures be minimized or resolved?
How to Create a Career Genogram (feel free to be creative!)
- Divide the page into three horizontal sections: one for your generation, one for your parents’ generation and a third for your grandparents’ generation.
- Draw a box at the center of the bottom section of the sheet corresponding to you. You may highlight it in a different color or use a different shape, such as a hexagon, to make it stand out.
- Add boxes for your parents in the middle section. In a genogram, it is customary to represent men with boxes and women with circles, although this is not necessary. Label the boxes with your parents names, university degrees and careers. Draw a line connecting you to your parents to demonstrate the relationship.
- Add each of your set of grandparents to the top section of the sheet, adding names, degrees and careers. (You can choose whether to include deceased individuals or not)
- Add your parents’ siblings to the middle section of the genogram, along with their names, degrees and occupations. If you are limited in space, choose aunts and uncles that you have more interaction with, as they would have made a greater contribution to your knowledge and competencies.
- Add in your siblings to the bottom section of the sheet alongside you.
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