Effectiveness of Education and Career Magazines in Guiding Pre-University Students in their Degree Choices
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2010
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Institute of Social Communication
Abstract
The path to ones career is more often a long journey that begins to take shape
over the years. Psychologists have used various theories to explain the process of
degree choices that consequently lead to careers. The individual develops degree
choices through a series of stages that evolve from fantasy to reality. This means
that at the lower stages of one's development, career choices were formed as a result
of admiration and fantasies without consideration of the qualifications and demands
of that career. Later on over the years, the individual reconciles with the reality that
the factors attached with careers need to be considered before a decision is made.
Some individuals enrol for degree courses long after they realise that they are not
satisfied with the degree they had pursued years back. This is because the prediction
of career choices and the guidance towards rewarding occupations is a complex
undertaking
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Youth and Careers, Magazines, Communication theories