Our school uses a software-based (or online) tool for helping students choose a career. Isn that enough?
It might be enough for the top 20%-30% of your students — perhaps. For those students who receive this information and exploration at home, a couple of hours with a software program might be all the extra guidance they need. But for the balance of your students — the ones who do not see the relevance in education and cannot envision a productive future with plans to realize their dreams — a couple hours in front of a computer screen is just not enough to set them on the path to making the second most important decision of their lives: How they’ll spend 40 hours per week for the next 40 years. In addition, it is important that ALL students have the skills and information necessary to change direction when they are forced to (or want to) change careers. If they learn the process using the real-world research and decision-making applications readily available on U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored websites (rather than relying on lab-based software programs that are unavailable once the
