How Do I Choose the Best Vocational Program?

The ability to choose careers refers to the ability of individuals to compete with others and win their ideal careers through specialized training on the premise of fully understanding their ideal careers in accordance with their own career expectations when carrying out personal career planning. Demonstrated ability. Career selection ability is a comprehensive ability, including the ability to balance personal characteristics and social factors, the ability to introspect self-requirements and life vision, the ability to design initial job selection and career development, the ability to participate in job search practices and obtain the desired job display , The development of professional life and strive for career advancement. The concept of career choice ability was put forward many times by Jiang Zhiping and Chen Wanyun in the textbook "College Students 'Career Choice Ability Training" and "Theory of Career Choice Ability: A Compulsory Course for College Students' Career Development".

Career choice

(1) Relevant career choice theory

1. Material factor theory: Parsons's trait factor theory is also called Parsons's theory of job matching. Trait factor theory is the earliest career counseling theory. In 1909, Frank Parsons, a professor at Boston University in the United States, The book "Choosing a Occupation" puts forward the idea that matching people with occupations is the focus of career selection. He believes that individuals have their own unique personality models, and individuals with each personality model have their own types of occupations.

2. Professional orientation theory:

Career selection ability is a comprehensive ability, including the ability to balance personal characteristics and social factors, the ability to introspect self-requirements and life vision, the ability to design initial job selection and career development, the ability to participate in job search practices and obtain the desired job display , The development of professional life and strive for career advancement. Scientific career choice is based on a clear understanding of the quality and job requirements of the chooser, combined with the actual needs of the individual and long-term ideals, using scientific decision-making methods, the display of multi-faceted job search skills, and finally obtain the desired career position and maintain and develop the career the process of.

First, career choices must match individual and environmental factors. When personal characteristics such as attitudes, abilities, and interests of job seekers are highly consistent with external factors such as job needs and opportunities, job search is easy to succeed, and the worker's personal job satisfaction, job stability, and sense of professional achievement can be positive. To strengthen, the occupation can continue. Second, career choices must respect individual needs. Everyone is inclined to choose a career that meets needs and avoids anxiety in a way that is self-preferred. Individuals have different opportunities for early career choices due to their early growth experience, personal satisfaction level, personal socialization level, intelligence level, gender type, etc. Big difference. Third, career choice must use scientific methods. Career selection is a continuous process that will go through the process of exploration, materialization, selection, clarification, evaluation, and implementation. It requires continuous identification of self, developmental tasks, and resolution of psychosocial crisis. Finally, career choices must consider future development. An individual's career can be divided into several stages. When college students make career choices, they need to understand the social roles and career development tasks of each stage of life, design problems that may be encountered during the career development process, and arrange career development plans. ^[1]

(A) professional discovery ability

Understand and collect career information and discover the ability to match your career. Including: information collection ability: ability to collect information. Occupational Cognitive Ability: Cognitive ability of occupation. Self-planning ability: the ability to design your own future blueprint.
(2) Occupation acquisition ability

By participating in job search activities, gain the ability of a certain occupation or job. Including: Emotional management ability: the ability to control emotions and the ability to produce good management results. Speaking ability: In public places, using spoken language as the main means and body language as the auxiliary means, to express a clear and complete opinion and proposition on a specific problem, to clarify affair or express emotions, and to propagate . Written writing ability: the ability to express in writing. Interpersonal communication ability: the ability of people to establish psychological connections through interpersonal communication in various specific social fields. Etiquette ability for job hunting: Ability to have a series of etiquette norms in the workplace. Resume making ability: ability to make resume.

(3) Professional development ability

Including: Moral cultivation ability: the ability of an individual to consciously transform the moral requirements of a certain society into personal moral qualities. Team collaboration ability: Based on the team, the ability to play team spirit and complement each other to achieve the team's maximum work efficiency. Mock interview ability: By arranging a simulated interview site and formal interview process for job applicants, the job applicants have the ability to experience the entire process of the interview. Ability to self-promote: Promote your ability to others through your own display.

1. Arrange training programs in all directions

The career selection ability training experimental platform covers three modules: career discovery ability, career acquisition ability, and career development ability, which respectively correspond to job seekers to integrate their own and environmental factors to explore the ability suitable for their own careers. Ability and the ability of practitioners to fully display their personal abilities and qualities to maintain and develop their profession.

For the training of professional discovery ability, arrange four training experiments for psychological evaluation, self-awareness, professional cognition and professional information collection; for professional acquisition ability, arrange resume creation, interpersonal communication, expression communication, etiquette development, no leadership group Six training experiments such as discussions and mock interviews; four training experiments for teamwork, ethics, emotion management, and impression management are arranged for the ability to adapt and develop in the workplace; each experiment corresponds to a certain career selection ability, and each training experiment It is an independent system and echoes each other to form a career selection ability improvement system that covers cognitive clarification, skill improvement, scenario simulation, and improvement.

2. Simulation of recruitment process throughout the process

The establishment of a career selection ability training experimental platform is based on simulating real recruitment activities and working scenarios, and personal interpersonal training scenarios such as personal statements, two-person Q & A, and many-to-many discussions are designed.

Personal statement. In training experiments such as expression communication and etiquette development, experimental content such as personal statements and personal demonstrations are arranged. Individuals are placed under static public eyes for language expression training, sitting, standing, walking, gestures and other posture training, nodding, Smile, shake hands, knock on the door, close the door and other action training, and repeatedly strengthen the training to form good personal habits.

Double question and answer. In the training experiments of expression communication, mock interview and interpersonal communication, there are arranged experimental content such as quiz practice between two people, placing individuals in the scene of communicating with others, and conducting simulated recruitment interview training.

Many-to-many discussion. In training experiments such as communication, simulated interviews, and interpersonal communication, a group of multiple people are arranged to have an interactive discussion on a certain topic. Participants in the experiment express their opinions and discover problems during the discussion. The process of all simulation training experiments is shot by video recording equipment. After the experiment, the experimenter can watch the performance of the experiment and improve it according to the recruitment requirements.

3. Standardized training steps

The career selection ability training experimental platform is provided to individual college students for training in the form of independent experiments. Different from the teaching of theoretical courses, the training process is experimentalized. Students rely on experimental equipment in the laboratory, follow the experimental procedures, and are guided by experts. The purpose of the experiment is to do it yourself, to cultivate and exercise your ability in one aspect. Each laboratory is equipped with a variety of experimental equipment and equipment according to the requirements of a certain ability to help students form good habits or correct wrong actions.

Design each training experiment in accordance with the inherent law of ability improvement. First, extract the core qualities to be trained in the experiment, scientifically explain the connotation and extension of the core qualities, and enumerate the core qualities revealed in the process of choosing a profession and acquiring a profession. Links; collating classic cases of career choices or career gains in both positive and negative aspects caused by a certain core quality into text or media materials and presenting them to students; summarizing the objects applicable to each training experiment, and targeting different experimental objects Set the focus and difficulty of experimental training; prepare detailed experimental objectives, experimental requirements, and experimental procedures, and students can practice on their own after reading the experimental manual; different experimental subjects can choose the actual status of their abilities and job search directions according to their occupations Choose a combination of experimental training packages, focus on training in some aspects of ability, and enhance personal professional competitiveness. ^[2]