The Academic Events Group, 5th Cyprus International Conference on Educational Research,

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Study on self-awareness and vocational counseling of high school students
Rodica Gabriela Enache, Raluca Silvia Matei

Last modified: 2016-03-03

Abstract


Problem Statement: The term career guidance is a general term that covers a range of activities from informing, evaluating and continuing to education and career counseling. Career counseling aims to develop the skills a person / group of persons needs in solving specific career related problems such as difficulties in formulating career options, difficulties in job retention and professional development, unemployment. Career education is an educational intervention for the development of habits and skills necessary for the development and management of their careers.

Purpose of Study: The research objectives are centered on investigation of adolescent personality types that is needed for academic and professional guidance, investigate how personal decision are made and social problem are solved as prerequisites in choosing a suitable profession, study efficiency analysis of the: psychological counseling activities, vocational and career guidance for high school students.

The methods of our research were: the Type Finder Personality Test, based on Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typological approach to personality, Questionnaire about decisions making styles of students A. J. Rowe and R. O. Mason, Managing with Style: A Guide to Understanding, Assessing, and Improving Decision Making.

Conclusions

A job can contribute to self-esteem and a sense of personal identity by allowing adolescents to feel they are doing something useful. They often show pride in their place of work as well as in themselves as workers. Not only are expressing the sense of industry and competence they worked and developing in middle childhood, they also are participating their future role as economically self- sufficient individuals. At the same time, by taking responsibility for showing up on time and doing the tasks they are given, they confirm their emerging status as adults. Career education is an educational intervention for the development of habits and skills necessary for the development and management of the careers.


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