Who is really apt to provide competitive career orientation and constructive advice for high school students and what are the means in doing so?
I feel like commenting on this socio-economic question, following recent talks with parents and education providers within a strong recession period, as we all go through for five consecutive years in this country.
No doubt, the selection of a trustworthy, reliable higher education institution parallel to employment opportunities and focus, is in my opinion, a task that has to be allocated to family as the major pillar of socio-economic stability status.
It is the father or the mother who should work systematically and scientifically on examining and cultivating students' skills and competences. In doing so, parents alone need to work collectivelly with their sons and daughters (e.g. through team work and involvement) examining current business trends, career opportunities within developing industry sectors and employability parameters. This is an indeed heavy research study. Obviously, it is parents who should devote time and effort in systematically disclosing at an early stage these special skills and competences that could later develop to professional talents.
On top of this painful process of disclosing and cultivating a set of competitive skills and competences, parents should examine the development of motivation best practices for their kids.
Motivation is the actual term used to describe those processes, both instinctive and rational by which people seek to satisfy the basic drives, perceived needs and personal goals which trigger human behavior.
Therefore, parents should consider the initiation and application of a basic motivation model for career orientation. In view of this model, parents following students' personal, emotional, or even social status needs, develop a set of stimuli aiming at triggering positive behavioural responses leading to job satisfaction.
Most pragmatically, as parents, we need to extract, disclose and apply a set of motivational stimuli providing the basis for a succesfull and focused career orientation. This is again a painful and hard-working process for parents. Otherwise, reputable higher educational institutions will keep on producing more unhappy, unfocused graduates who do not really like their professions and former studies.
Why do we need to add more people to lists of non-specialized and unemployed personnel?
All we need is to integrate higher education with clearly identifiable skills and competencies.
All we need is team work and involvement between parents and students.
Both are key words for:
a) The disclosure of students' skills and competences and
b) The set up of motivational parameters - stimuli to enhance and support future career orientation.
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