Career preferences of Filipino senior high school students
,
and
Article Sidebar
Full Text: 
PDF
Main Article Content
Abstract
This research determined the trends and challenges in career preferences of the public high schools in Cebu City, Philippines. The study participants were 35 students, including five guidance counselors and advocates (GCA) from different identified public national high schools. This research used a quantitative-qualitative mixed design through a focused group discussion to confirm the responses of the respondents. The results show that students often choose careers that suit the needs of their families. Sometimes, they use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and My Space to seek a job, base their choices in popular courses/degrees today, they even use technology to do that or choose a career that fits their abilities. According to the GCAs, most of the students lack motivation and do not know the deeper reasons for the courses that they want and just pick a degree program just for the sake of having one. Sometimes, they lack information about different careers, base things on practicality, they cannot decide, they do not have a choice and their parents choose their career for them. The findings suggest GCAs need to encourage learners, and their parents to make use of a career pathing design for them to be guided in terms of their career decisions.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
References
Aros, J. R., Henly, G. A., & Curtis, N. T. (2012). Occupational Sextype and Sex Differences in Vocational Preference-Measured Interest Relationships. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 53(2), 227–242. https://doi.org/10.1006/jvbe.1997.1612
Bates, C. W. (2015). The influence of family on the career interests and choices of youth. International Journal of Education and Social Science, 2(9), 67-73. h ttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/ papers.cfm?abstract_id=3745136
Buchholz, S., & Blossfeld, H. P. (2012). Changes in the economy, the labor market, and expectations for the future: What might Europe and the United States look like in twenty‐five years?. New Directions for Youth Development, 2012(135), 17-25.
Cattaneo, M., Horta, H., Malighetti, P., Meoli, M., & Paleari, S. (2017). Effects of the financial crisis on university choice by gender. Higher Education, 74(5), 775-798.
Contento, I. R., & Koch, P. A. (2020). Nutrition education: linking research, theory, and practice. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. https://books.google.com.ph/books
Creemers, B. P., Peters, T., & Reynolds, D. (1990). School effectiveness and school improvement. School effectiveness and school improvement, 1(4), 299-303. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/0924345900010404
Erb, T. O. (2013). Career preferences of early adolescents: Age and sex differences. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 3(4), 349-359. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0272431683034007
Heflebower, T., & Hoegh, J. K. (2014). A school leader's guide to standards-based grading. Solution Tree Press.
Jaeger, A. (2003) Job Competencies and the Curriculum: An Inquiry into Emotional Intelligence in Graduate Professional Education. Research in Higher Education, 44, 615-39.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026119724265
Jarvis, P., & Griffin, C. (2003). Adult and continuing education: major themes in education. London: Routledge.
Knowles, T., Diamantis, D., & El-Mourhabi, J. B. (2010). The globalization of tourism and hospitality: a strategic perspective. London: Thomson.
Kochhar, S. K. (2013). Guidance and counselling in colleges and universities. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers.
Konings, K. (2011). The match between students' lesson perceptions and preferences: relations with student characteristics and the importance of motivation, Educational Research, 53(4), 439-457.
Maree, J. G. (2019). Handbook of innovative career counselling. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Miller, G. A. (2015). Learning the language of addiction counseling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Musburger, R. B. (2016). An introduction to writing for electronic media: scriptwriting essentials across the genres. New York: Focal Press.
Nielsen, S. L. (2017). Entrepreneurship in theory and practice: Paradoxes in play. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Northern, J. L., & Downs, M. P. (2014). Hearing in Children (6th ed.) Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon Publishers.
OECD Statistics. (2016). Top Statutory Personal Income
Tax Rate on Wage Income. https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLE_I7
Power, P. W., & Orto, A. E. D. (2014). Families living with chronic illness and disability Interventions, challenges, and opportunities. New York, N. Y.: Springer Publishing Company.
Poston, D. L., & Bouvier, L. F. (2017). Population and society: an introduction to demography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sansone, Y. A., Mcdonald, B. V., & Dianne Jean, U. W. (2010). Achieving greater academic success: Engaging students by providing feedback and summative grades for note taking. https://doi.org/10.24124/2010/bpgub1479
Schatman, F. Q. (2016). Rising political risks fuel financial market anxieties. Expert Briefings. https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB220286
Sernau, S. (2020). Social inequality in a global age. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2332649219844799
Tschopp, C., Grote, G., & Köppel, N. (2015). Disentangling effects of age and career preferences on the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention and behavior: An examination in three samples. Work, Aging and Retirement, 2(1), 73-85.
Vijayaraghavan, J., Dhanapal, Y., & Ganev, D. (2016). ArcGIS for JavaScript developers by example: a practical guide to get you creating powerful mapping applications using the rich set of features provided by the ArcGIS JavaScript Api. Birmingham, UK: Packt Publishing.
Watkins, T. A. (2018). Introduction to microfinance. Singapore: World Scientific.