Career planning

Career planning plays a critical role in enhancing students' academic resilience. A wise selection of career choices helps in finishing the career program successfully. However, the wrong career choice could lead to poor grades and sometimes dropouts. Therefore, as a counselor, it is crucial to establish a career-related service program for college dropouts.

Although there are various causes for college dropouts, such as financial problems, course complexity, or loss of interest, wrong career choices stand out. Therefore, students should be directed on wise career selection (Sampson, 2017). Some strategies that could be used in training programs and education include early childhood intervention. The educator should understand a child's abilities and prepares them to make the right career choice at the college level. Also, there should be a Curricular career information service (CCIS) at the high school level to offer guidelines on proper career selection to avoid making the wrong career decision which could lead to college dropout (Sampson, 2017). Another strategy could be reforming college objectives and policies to motivate students to pursue the selected career choices by providing real-life examples and illustrations to prepare them for the job market. Students should also be encouraged to pursue courses they are passionate about and consider their high school performance in different units to help select courses they can easily comprehend (Sampson, 2017). Thus, as a counselor, it is crucial to offer career-related services to students to select the most appropriate career depending on their passion and high school performance.

There are various reasons for college dropouts, but the wrong career decision stands out. However, some strategies that could be used to plan for proper career selection include early career intervention, introducing CCIS programs in high school, reforming college policies, and encouraging the selection of a career depending on high school performance.

References

Sampson, J. P. (2017). Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory: Challenges and opportunities for integrating theory, research, and Practice. Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice in Vocational Psychology: Current Status and Future Directions. doi.org/10.17125/svp2016.ch5