Our school uses a software (or online) tool for helping students choose a career. Isn’t that enough?
For the top 20-30 percent of your students, perhaps. For those students who probably receive this information and exploration at home or observe it within their families, a couple of hours with a software program might be enough. 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 behind a computer screen is just not enough to set them on the path to the second most important decision of their lives…how they’ll spend 40 hours per week for 40 years. Without an understanding of why they need to prepare vigorously for a career, you’ll loose them. In addition, it is important for ALL students to have the skills and information necessary so they can change direction when they are forced to or want to change careers. If they learn the process using real world applications for research and decision-making so readily available on such U.S. Department of Labor sponsore
