"Learning one thing now is ineffective": what is career guidance for and how the coronavirus affected its relevance

- What is vocational guidance for?

- The purpose of career guidance is to make a conscious choice of your professional path, taking into account the specifics of your personality.

A person, answering the questions "Who am I?", "What do I like to do?", "What am I good at?", Makes the right choice.

Career guidance shows the importance of acquiring new skills.

It is a process that never stops — people make decisions about their professional life every day.

Only then will work be enjoyable.

- Has vocational guidance become more relevant now, in the context of the "coronacrisis"?

- The coronavirus just served as a detonator for the increased interest in various online courses.

Including vocational guidance.

It was relevant even before the crisis.

Rather, the format has changed: for example, in a few weeks we fully translated our entire career guidance course online and continued to work.

The pandemic, in a sense, turned the minds of people, they began to think more often about how to guarantee stability for themselves and their children.

Therefore, the relevance of career guidance has grown.

- How many children, as a percentage, undergo vocational guidance? 

- This is a difficult question.

Formally, it passes 100%, but its effectiveness varies greatly.

After grade 11, the overwhelming majority of children choose a specialty either under pressure from their parents, or on the basis of the USE results.

Over time, many realize that the specialty is clearly not suitable for them, but continue to study.

Suffice it to say that in the past few years, 60% to 70% of people have ended up not working in their profession.

There are also those who go to work in their specialty, and, realizing that they have made a wrong step, remain in their unloved work for many years.

Those who undergo vocational guidance are much less likely to be faced with the fact that they are "at the wrong address."

- At what age is career guidance most effective?

- The sooner you start the process of career guidance for your child, the better.

Already in primary school, children should be told about what professions are, why they are valued, what you need to be able to do in order to choose your life's work.

The child needs to be given the opportunity to try himself in different qualities, so that he himself understands that he is better at what he likes.

Now the “generation of meanings” is growing, and any activity must be explained to the child.

That is why we so often come across truancy of our children of certain subjects.

They begin to value the time and the "need" of the information that teachers bring them.

If children understood why they need this or that knowledge in everyday life, the attitude would be different.

- Is vocational guidance effective for adults?

- Career guidance is effective at any age.

In our company, for example, not so long ago we began to actively engage in reorientation - this is a course for those who have already made their choice, but due to circumstances decided to change it and want to build the most systematic approach to building their career.

If a person needs to change the sphere of his activity, then he has come to a moment of dissatisfaction with the current situation.

The world is unique - today it provides opportunities for developing oneself and changing professions at any age.

- What are the benefits of vocational guidance?

- Effective career guidance both in choosing a university and in building a career leads to time savings, makes it possible to quickly acquire the necessary experience and knowledge.

- What areas in education do you consider the most promising right now?

- Various studies in this direction unequivocally indicate that the technical, biotechnical and IT directions are most in demand both right now and in the long term.

Human-oriented spheres also have a great future (everything that relates to communication with people, for example, education, services, psychology, medicine.

).

I don't really like to say that there are “unpromising” areas, because every area is necessary and significant, and every specialist is a valuable unit of the labor market.

The point is that learning one thing is now ineffective, because all professions will live at the junction of various competencies.

This is due to the automation and robotization of all processes.

- Will these trends change in the near future?

- The development of technology inevitably entails changes in all areas of human activity.

The trends in the direction of the spheres sounded above have been outlined for some time ago, and progress is continuously transforming these directions.