8 tips to parents on how to help your child choose a profession

Free higher education is given only once in Russia. Entrust the choice of profession students, when many graduates and 18 no - dangerous decision. According to Rosstat, in specialty, we employ only about 40% of the population. Figures not that hint, they shout that more than half of graduates have wasted several years on unnecessary studies.

Normal desire of parents - to help your child to do this. The only question is how to do it.

1. Instill in the child independence

Unfortunately, to do this for a year or two before prom late, independent child should have to grow from birth, but it is better to start at least one day. The main rule in career counseling is simple:

The child must choose a profession itself.

Only the man himself knows what he wants. And the only way the child will not blame the parents if something goes wrong, or think that he had missed his chance.

I would like to cast. But my father said that all the actors are in the theater district, earn little and drink too much. Engineer - that is another matter. I was obedient and entered radiofak. The Polytechnic Institute was fun 6 years I have been involved in student spring, but knowledge in zero goals, as well as the desire to work as an engineer, although I am the master. Because of this, all my life I have pursued a sense of unrealized and thought that things might have somehow different. While I understand that the pope rights and the work of the actor beastly. Parents do not blame you, I blame myself, that once did not like dreaming.

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Maria, Editor

2. Understand what occupations in demand

Only really in demand, but not "prestigious". To understand this, it is not necessary to read selections and ratings. It is necessary to open centers of employment sites and sites that help in finding a job, and look carefully at the job.

Grandpa advised to choose something related to foreign languages ​​because it is claimed. I tried, carried away, so it was easy to follow his advice. Demand receded into the background, because it became interesting. Now, I loved working in the IT-sphere. Grandpa is not bad advise!

Angelina, translator

Browse Jobs helps to assess the popularity of the profession, opportunities and salary requirements to the applicants. Perhaps you find that one higher for a dream is not enough: it is necessary to parallel learn languages and attend any courses.

3. Show inside profession

In adults, a large circle of acquaintances with a variety of specialties. Ask your friends to tell the child what and how they do at work. It is important to hear about the most ordinary daily activities. For example, about how you have to write letters, how they work with the drawings in the real world as the morning you need to arrive exactly at eight, how to fill out reports and drink tea with the accounting department.

Many companies hold open days. At such events, it is necessary to ask the right questions: not a high performance and a great goal, but the routine device jobs.

My parents - teachers. Implored not to go into pedagogy, so I did not go.

Lida, Advertising Specialist

On many professions have a vague idea. Better acquainted with the work better, than to spend a few years and face a conflict of expectations and reality.

More importantly, it must comply with the health conditions of work. Understand pull the child or not, can only be in combat, or at least during a frank conversation with a representative of the profession.

4. Find study options in other cities and countries

Often we do not even know where and who you can work, have no idea what specialties are in high schools, even in neighboring cities, not to mention universities across the country. And absolutely nothing.

When it came time to choose who to be, I was only 15 years old. In my town it was impossible to learn the specialty of which I dreamed, and the school had a different profile. To enter, you had to be transferred to another school, to engage in a special program, go for a few hundred kilometers to another city and apply. I was not able to crank it, and the parents are not puzzled, eventually chose the profession of those who were available nearby. I shall soon be 30, I still regret.

Nastya, copywriter

Of course, move the child to another city - it is not a pleasure trip to the park, to support a student at a distance more difficult. But it's worth it, if it is about the profession for life.

5. Forget about career guidance tests

Especially about those that are scattered on the Internet. They are based on trivial matters and do not take into account the large number of professions. The choice of the future on the basis of the averaged test - frustration when it's uncertain what to do.

6. Do not confuse favorite lesson in school and profession

Standard logic: given good math - go learn from the "programmer", given good literature - to the philologist, not like anything - then come to the manager, there is the exam for social studies.

This knowledge is necessary to adjust a target, rather than choose to work on the basis of knowledge.

It is necessary to choose a profession, which the child will earn money, not a favorite subject. Maybe your child likes the teacher, comfortable room and beautiful visuals, and the profession is not nothing.

7. Do not make sure to enter a university

If the child has not yet decided who to be, give him time and opportunity to think about what to become. Nothing (except for fear of the army guys) does not interfere with school work after a couple of years, to get acquainted with real life, to devote time to educational courses and finding yourself. If you can not imagine how after school not to learn, try college. There also is easier examinations and training costs less, and get ready profession faster.

Mom forced me to go to a technical college (15 years I did not have the right to vote), which I was not very pleased, therefore, all the forces trying to make me expelled. Did not work out. After college, I myself have chosen a university and a specialty. Now I have no regrets. After college, I was sent to practice at "AvtoVAZ". At age 18, I had a normal position and salary.

Maria, the manager

Craze higher education nor to no good leads. diploma often - just a piece of paper, for which there is no single gram of knowledge and skills. But there are several dead years and spent hundreds of thousands.

8. Do not force to complete training

In the period from 18 to 23 years old man sharply grows, it is the age of development. Sometimes the eyes are opened, and the student understands what is involved is not their job: finding a more interesting profession, understands what the goal in front of him. As a rule, this is a conscious choice, a decision than yesterday's student, such a turn would bring more benefits than sad diploma, because "just started - to finish."

After the ninth grade class teacher advised my mother to send me to college. Parents especially did not choose, and sent me to the building because my mother all his colleagues ended. I was told that the main thing - to get a diploma. I meekly agreed. Otmuchilas four years. After already independently made the decision to get higher in another specialty. Parents agreed, though, saying: "Do nothing for four years unlearn?".

Anton, designer

Diploma of education and several years of study - it is not a contract for life. At any moment everything can change. Do not forget to say that a child who is not sure that he had chosen his job.

Checklist caring parent

Briefly about what to do to help your child:

• Not to insist on their choice and give the child to decide what to do.
• Share what professions are needed now.
• Offer the profession that will interest the child, and not the ones that tell the test or evaluation in the journal.
• Give as much information about different professions.
• Show non-obvious solutions: specialty, which are not heard in your area.
• Do not force to study for a diploma is better to spend a couple of years to self-determination, and then find the ideal profession.

And you parents helped with the choice?