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Importance of vocation:
Vocation plays an important part in most people’s lives. Work plays an integral part in personal development generally and not just simply in career choice. It modifies one’s whole way of life. Individual jobs also limit their role and status. Ex: A lawyer is automatically accorded higher status than a plumber.
Need for vocational guidance: There is a need for vocational guidance for adolescents due to various reasons
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Complex and fluid nature of job market, the area of vocations poses various complex problems for youth. Matching oneself with vocation is not easy, partly because of the highly fluid job situation.
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The demand is also for increasingly higher skills often requiring longer, more sophisticated training.
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Youth face problems of establishing vocational identity. In school they receive a general education. But when they enter the job market they have to face occupation system, requiring them to learn specific tasks for which they are insufficiently prepared.
Unrealistic Vocational goals: Another vocational problem is the adolescent’s unrealistic aspirations. Some young people hold quite unrealistic objectives aspiring for jobs inconsistent with their abilities.
Physically handicapped: They encounter special difficulties. Provisions should be made for them to have special and remedial treatment to permit maximum development of their potential.
Members of minority groups: Members of minority groups which comprise about a third of population identity their self esteem with work as strongly as the people of higher socio economic groups. In general the minority individual’s goals represent extremes either too low or too high.
Early school dropouts: The minority group members are likely school dropouts representing another category with special vocational problems.
Gifted Adolescents: Unlike more average youth, gifted adolescents possess definite advantages in vocational adjustment. Many of them have the confidence that comes from knowing that they possess a trait highly valued by society.
Boy’s vocational Status: Each sex has its special vocational problems. For boys such problems are more because vocation constitutes an important place in his scheme of things. Parents also emphasize this aspect of his future that they insist of vocation being chosen in terms of status and salary.
Girl’s vocational dilemmas: Several factors complicate the girl’s problems of making a choice prior to late adolescence she may not have received any orientation to such matters. Their plans must be tentative and flexible, to take into account of possible effects on their future families.
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