Career guidance is an inclusive term that has been used to describe a range of interventions including career education and counseling that help people to move from a general understanding of life and work to a specific understanding of the realistic life, learning and work options that are open to them. Career guidance is often thought to incorporate career information, career education and career counseling to learners.
“It is the help or advice given to children in schools, to assist them know what they want to be in future and how to get there” said Madam Aseno Anne Grace
When developing and presenting career education programs it is important to be aware of the context in which career development and career decision-making occur. Career decision-making is not simply matching a person to an occupation. There are many influences that impact on a person’s career decisions that is to say; Individual variables, Social context, Environmental context, and other factors are worthy noting before one can chose a career.
So if you are still in primary level, one has to work hard in all the subjects but more especially in math and English. As you continue to secondary, you need to look at what you like to be and so you identify which subjects will lead you to that for example if you want to become a doctor, one need to put emphasis on science subjects like; physics, chemistry, biology, math, health science agriculture, drawing and food nutrition.
On the other hand if say one wanted to be a lawyer, many efforts should be directed to subjects like history, political education, economics, divinity, geography.
However this does not imply that you leave other subjects, no go with them and read them such that you pass them.
But still before you decide on your future career, first look at the family background. You need to know if you will manage the expenses of the course you want to do.
Quality career education programs throughout schooling are necessary to assist young people in their career development process as it will help them identify their personal attributes, to involve in investigating, exploring and experiencing the world of work and the various pathways within it, to enhance informed decision making and to develop in them skills that effectively move into new situations.
BY: BROSDI GROUP
