Each person at a certain moment must decide on the choice of profession. This process is an extremely responsible step on which the success of the whole future life depends. We are talking about status in society, material wealth and personal satisfaction. Successfully complete this step is one of the main social tasks of youth.
Is it easy for the young?
For most youth, the desire to acquire a reliable profession is among the undoubted priorities. But it is precisely such a specific category of the population as youth that is characterized by maximum social insecurity due to age characteristics, namely low qualifications, lack of professional experience and the presence of purely psychological problems with self-determination.
In our difficult times, the younger generation is even more at risk of losing a decent profession or simply not finding a decent job. That is why all specialists who work with youth are required to take a professional approach in the career guidance of young people.
This also applies to librarians. Armed with knowledge, a specialist from the height of his experience will push young men and women to make the right choice and reduce the risk of failure. Actual information on the topic of career guidance is urgently needed by young people and adolescents. After all, the world of professions is so volatile and diverse! Almost every year we hear about the emergence of new specialties and entire industries.
Who will help?
More and more often, specialists are being presented with requirements related to a special style of thinking and the ability to delve into innovations and master modern labor technologies. In this regard, the role of the librarian as a professional consultant is difficult to overestimate. After all, he has a lot of opportunities to draw the attention of a young reader to the immense information resources available to the library.
A librarian can help a teenager decide on a professional basis thanks to the mass of scientific and reference, as well as popular literature on a wide range of activities. It is the measures taken for career guidance in the library that can provide such relevant information about the demand for a particular specialty in the labor market, conditions for admission and those educational institutions where it is possible to acquire knowledge in the chosen direction.
What is the help
Let's look at the main directions the library can and should conduct its career guidance activities. The specialist’s work plan in this area should include three main areas, namely: preparing young readers for the right professional choice, creating all the necessary conditions for them to receive comprehensive information about existing specialties, and also focusing on choosing a specific option.
Each of the three areas implies the solution of very specific pedagogical tasks.
In preparing the reader for the choice of profession, librarians are obliged to think about ways to generate interest in such a problem as professional self-determination. Another goal of this work item is to teach the young generation the rules by which to choose their future activities.
In the second of the directions - the creation of suitable conditions for obtaining relevant information - the librarian should focus on helping young people in the realization of their own interest in a particular field of activity.
Determine finally
The next step is to form a more sustainable interest in the selected type of labor on the basis of the emerging social and personal position. That is, the future applicant must determine their value orientations and realize the motive of their choice.
The third of the plan points is the most responsible, as it is based on individual work with those of high school students who have practically made their choice. In this case, the task of the youth career guidance event in the library is to form a more serious idea of the chosen field of activity.
The results of such library work include the interest shown by schoolchildren in the problem of choice, their assimilation of its basic rules, the manifestation of a fairly high level of self-awareness, including responsibility for their own decision.
The goal is to identify the social motives of choice and the formation of ideas about a particular type of activity. As well as knowledge of the specifics of the conditions for obtaining a specialty and further labor activity, prospects and material conditions. Indeed, in connection with the current situation in the labor market, there is often a serious discrepancy between the ideal idea of applicants about future work and real living conditions.
What to do to a librarian
To implement the tasks, the library is developing a model of career guidance. Its essence is a comprehensive approach to the issue of youth work orientation, the use of a large amount of specialized literature, a variety of methods and forms of propaganda.
Work with readers includes, in addition, the involvement of other organizations and specialists.
The organizational form of the event in the library for career guidance can be mass, group (in the form of circles of constant or changing composition), as well as individual. By the method of influence, they can all be divided into verbal (verbal) - in the form of reports, lectures, disputes, conferences of readers, meetings, conversations, etc .; practical - in the form of excursions, trainings, study groups, contests and trips; as well as visual ones - in the form of book and creative exhibitions, thematic stands, etc.
It is advisable to use all forms in a complex, so they will complement each other.
Activities in the career counseling library may include the following:
- Education in verbal (or verbal) form is often provided in the form of organizing a club for professional dating, uniting boys and girls to broaden their horizons and develop interest in specialties.
- In such a club, graduates are given the opportunity to meet with representatives of various types of labor, both massive and fairly rare, and get acquainted with the features of their activities, as well as psychological, economic and even medical nuances when making a choice.
About specific forms of work
It is supposed to organize career guidance events in the library for children and adolescents in the form of a dialogue between schoolchildren and club guests. At meetings, it is possible to conduct rapid diagnostics, career-oriented games, and provide information on the conditions for admission to a particular educational institution. You can also arrange a debate on the relevance of a particular profession.
The value of classes in the form of disputes is that they make you think about the choice of even someone who is not ready for him for some reason, and in developing the ability to make collegial decisions on a variety of issues.
Disputes can be arranged on the following topics: “My actions to achieve the goal”, “What is the prestige of the profession?”, “Careerism - is it good or bad?”, “Unemployment is a social dead end or your new chance?”, “Do you achieve the goal at all costs ? "," How do I see myself in 5 years ", etc.
Scenario: cognitive career guidance event in the library
In preparing the dispute plan, an approximate list of issues should be drawn up, namely:
1. Are the concepts of choosing a profession and gaining life meaning equivalent for you?
2. What is more important - the formation of professional skills or personal growth?
3. Does the business color the person or the person is the business?
4. Is it true that they get used to any profession. How do you think?
5. What is a free choice in the professional field?
6. How do passport grades affect the success of life?
7. What information should be available so as not to make a mistake in choosing?
Another form of the career guidance library event is the publication of an oral journal, which is pre-prepared speeches, each of which is dedicated to a specific topic. To interest schoolchildren with this idea, reports should be alternated with viewing slides, videos and presentations by invited professionals.
Each of the issues of such a magazine can be devoted to a specific field of activity, for example, medicine, construction or pedagogy.
Other options
This form of an event in the library for career guidance, such as conversation, implies that teenagers are introduced to the world of professional activity, guidelines for self-determination and the situation with educational institutions in the region. When preparing a conversation, a list of issues to be discussed, visual materials, and recommended literature should be provided. If the conversation is about a specific occupation, it’s nice to invite a representative. The performance of students studying for a particular specialty will not be superfluous.
What is a round table? This is the name of career guidance activities in the library, implying a collective discussion on a specific topic. Only those students who have a good level of training can have a free exchange of their own opinions on all the issues discussed. This form of work is suitable for high school students with some experience. The program of each meeting should be drawn up in advance, sample questions worked out.
How to interest readers
Interesting career guidance events in the library can be organized as travel evenings. Participants are divided into teams, during the "trip" exchange impressions, information and suggestions on various topics. Such evenings can be spent a series of. Their approximate topics are as follows:
1. “Hometown” - participants “wander” through the squares, streets of their city, “visit” famous places.
2. "Our land" - the path runs along the rivers, cities, memorable places of their country.
3. "Travel around the world" includes other countries and capitals.
4. "Amazing world" - the theme of nature, animals, plants, etc. is raised.
5. "World of professions."
6. "Flight by time machine."
The name of the career guidance activities in the library, conducted in the form of a training, may be something like "Evenings of Unraveled Mysteries." Here, schoolchildren, as it were, make "scientific discoveries" and focus on various unsolved problems.
Participants need to prepare in advance. It is most convenient to break them into small groups of no more than 5 people each. Moreover, it can be both peers and children of different ages. The subjects chosen are the most diverse, for example, “City of the Future”, “History of an Ancient Object”.
It is best if the answers to the questions raised are not in the form of reviews (that is, summaries of figures and facts), but in the form of discussions involving mass participation.
In preparing such an evening, you should use any available sources, from the Internet to popular science magazines and books. Its duration should not exceed one and a half hours. If the age of the participants is not too large, care should be taken to include game moments in the evening program.
Serious work ahead
The next type of career guidance library event is conferences. They can be scientific, summary and reading. The methodology for their implementation consists in determining the topic, notifying participants of the date of the meeting, preparing for the general familiarization of the program.
In preparation for the conference, participants will need to study a wide variety of sources, work with library catalogs, encyclopedias, bibliographic directories, watch certain films or performances on the topic under discussion. Perhaps you should organize a trip to the museum or a meeting with an interesting person in preparation.
Conducting conferences with students, librarians, together with teachers, instill in schoolchildren the skills of conducting abstracts, drawing up plans, highlighting the most important, selecting quotes, and correctly preparing documents. Teenagers learn logical thinking, analysis and generalization skills.
Each of the participants makes a short plan of their performance. As necessary, consultations are conducted in a group or individually. Upon completion of the preparatory phase, a detailed plan of the event should be drawn up.
Report
There may, of course, be many activities in the library for career counseling. But after each, the results should be summed up. For example, ask participants questions such as:
- What exactly in the event seemed the most useful and interesting?
- What issues are not fully disclosed?
An example of the topic of a scientific conference can be: "What kind of specialists will our region need after a decade?"
This educational form of work, such as a press conference, activates youth and adolescents, promotes the development of thinking and ability to conduct discussion, as well as use information from a variety of sources. This is an effective method of school self-education.
When preparing a press conference, creative or initiative groups should be created from the participants. Each of them receives a specific task, for example, preparing a speech on a topic, preparing visual aids, compiling a crossword puzzle, selecting entertaining facts, and so on.
From each group, the main representative is selected, who will have to speak on behalf of everyone. Along the way, a book exhibition or other information stand is being designed . The form of the press conference involves listening to reports prepared in advance with subsequent answers to questions and summing up.
Each of the proposed topics should be considered from opposite positions. As the topic of a press conference, you can take, for example, this: "Labor and health." And discuss from different points of view.
For those younger
The plan of measures for career guidance in the library necessarily includes practical forms of professional education. These include a wide variety of contests and games. They can be planned in the form of independent events, for example, a competition of the best in profession, or included as part of the scenario of thematic evenings.
Games are among the most active forms of enlightenment. While playing, students try on professional responsibilities, sometimes seriously fulfilling their individual elements. In this case, there are special teaching aids to help the librarian with a description of a variety of career-oriented games.
The purpose of events such as a competition is to identify those students who have the most in-depth knowledge on a particular topic and have the highest level of professional skills.
The theme of a theme evening can be a specifically chosen profession or even an entire industry. This form is interesting in that it can include competitions with games, amateur performances, and musical design.
If events are held in the children's library for career guidance with the participation of younger schoolchildren, then the following topics are recommended: "All professions are needed, all professions are important", "Who will I be?", "Our grandmothers and mothers" and the like.
The younger the age of the children, the more active the forms of events should be . Already in high school, it is recommended that students organize excursions to enterprises, employment centers and vocational schools. Schoolchildren will be able to see with their own eyes the organization of production, the activities of people in a working environment, and feel the atmosphere of an educational institution. After the career guidance event was held in the library, the tour will consolidate the information received.
What are they
The excursions can be panoramic, supplemented by small conversations with the staff working at each site, or thematic. The latter are conducted by the school according to the developed plan according to the subjects of the subjects. The thematic cycle of excursions can be included in the school curriculum in order to comprehensively familiarize students with the organizations and enterprises existing in the region, as well as the promotion of certain professions.
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