An insight into career orientation
This paper explores the career orientation in the following aspects: factors affecting career choice, career orientation skills, benefits of career orientation, and the origin of career orientation
1. Factors affecting career choice
For each individual, it is not easy to orient your career for yourself, it determines your success or failure in the future. Career orientation for students, students and young people is even more important because in front of them is an open future. Career orientation for young people is not only the responsibility of individuals but also of a family, a collective, of the whole society and above all, parents to help children with unleash your potential.
When it comes to career orientation for the future, no one can deny its importance, but how to orient it correctly, not everyone knows. According to leading experts in the world, the following factors will affect your career direction:
a- Occupational hobby
When you do anything, you also need to have passion or love, otherwise you will get bored very quickly and give up, especially when it is difficult at work, vice versa if you really love your work. Then, no matter how difficult it is, you will try to find a way to pursue that job and it is one of the top factors to help you succeed at work.
b- Some of innate potentials
Before deciding to follow a certain profession, you need to discover yourself to see what your strengths are, your innate potential, your innate personality and which profession is suitable. For example, if you have a talent for drawing, you should pursue a career as a fashion designer or an artist, if you are good at sports, you should become a player… So the level of success when it comes to work will be higher. There are many times when you have to try to do something that is not suitable for your ability.
Today, with advanced science and technology, by analyzing fingerprints (Scientific name is Dermatoglyphics), experts can give you accurate advice about your hidden abilities. , which helps you orient your career in accordance with your innate talents, and has methods to stimulate the development of those innate talents.
c- Social trends
This is a less important factor but it is also an aspect to consider in order to properly guide your future work. Choosing occupations with high demand for human resources will make it easier for you to find a job.
2. Career Orientation Skills
Occupation is a general term that refers to the jobs that will be attached to each person's self for most of their significant time. Going in the wrong direction in your career will bring many disadvantages in your life later. Therefore, career orientation is an absolute necessity for students sitting in the lecture halls. But not all young people take this seriously.
According to a survey at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, 52.6% of final-year students have no plans to find a job for themselves, 46.3 current students have no
intention of self-improvement, 44 .8% of students do not envision their career after five years. These are the numbers that prove the confusion of the students with the profession they are studying as well as the orientation of the profession they will do in the future.
3. Benefits of career orientation
Are you pursuing your dream career? For family? Or is it because of the encouragement and encouragement of friends? Are you really passionate, or do you really find yourself with the right qualities for the industry? What are you thinking is the best way to go?
Therefore, determining your career direction in the future will help you see more clearly what your learning goals and long-term goals are. Having direction means being purposeful and motivated. Accompanying that will be the effort, striving and unyielding efforts to achieve the goal you have chosen. It is also one of the criteria for people to look at it to guess who you are in the future!
A good career orientation in the future helps you come up with activities for yourself to hone your professional knowledge as well as complementary skills to bring success in your chosen job later.
With a good career orientation in the future, it can also help you save more effort and money for your family and society. The amount of material you spend will not be wasted and in vain. The special thing that you have is that you do not waste much time in life. For the future, you do not have to regret the beautiful student time and do not have to regret choosing the path you will go.
4. The origin of career orientation?
For the correct career orientation, the first thing you have to do is collect information about different professions in society as well as the requirements set for that profession. You can find information about professions by going to forums, specialized websites; recruitment websites such as kiemviec.com, timviecnhanh.com, vietnamwork.com, ... or participate in career orientation counseling programs, job fairs organized by companies; ... This is an opportunity to They look at their own conditions and whether they are compatible with the chosen profession or not. And this is also an opportunity for them to show themselves to employers in order to give employers a good impression so that they can get the right job in the future.
In addition, you can also consult teachers, friends or family as well as consultants or use IQ and EQ tests to determine your own strengths and weaknesses to know. With your psychological characteristics, what profession is appropriate?
After acquiring the necessary information, cultivating professional knowledge as well as adding soft skills such as communication, teamwork, creative thinking, etc. will help you be more dynamic, more responsive. so that when I graduate from school, I can integrate well into the work.
It is also important to build relationships for yourself during student life. Relationships with friends, with teachers, or with upperclassmen are great opportunities that can lead to the right career opportunities.