Career Aspirations Of Secondary School Students

Abst r actA person's work expectations show a person's desireand preferences for a certain type of career. They a1soref1ect a person's attitude towards the job. They arematters of indiyidua1 inclination. It is theexternalization of views about work value and also is areflection of individual's outlook on life and the world.It directly influences a person's choice of a career.Eventually it inf1uences a person's whole 1if e. It is ofgreat significance to study senior secondary yocationalschool students' work expectations to envisage theircareer jobs and estab1ish themse1yes in their futurecareers. 1n this research the inyestigation was made byusing Soper's Whrk Value Questionnaire, revised byProfessor Huang Xiting of Southwest Teachers' Co11ege anda self designed questionnaire, comp1emented by structuralinterviews. The questionnaire investigation inyolved theP8rticipation of 659 students, parents and teachers. Theana1ysis of data was carried out through the SPSS 8. 0 forwindows with the following results:l. The senior secondary vocational schoo1 studentshave the sane strong desire for perfection in workexpectation as co1lege students and the postgraduates. Jobstability, good sa1aries and an open--minded boss, thechance to give ful1 p1ay to one's own professiona1knowledge or skil1 in the job, smooth deyelopment ofone's career and good re1ationships with colleagues arethe most important criteria when a student chooses a job.2. In--schoo1 students and former graduates havesignificantly different Yiews on the re1ative iIIlPortanceof job stability and the possibi1ity of workingindependent 1y.3. The female in--schoo1 students 1ay stress on workingconditions that have c1ose re1ation with 1iving conditionsand that can embody a person's qua1ity of 1if e. The maleIIin梥chool students attach importance to those elements that concerns self梤ealization and learning through personal experience on the job.4.Students of different grades have significantly different attitudes in terms of certain expectations for their future careers. Newly enrolled students stress the social aspects of the job while new graduates emphasize the personal aspects of the job.5.The work expectations of in梥chool students agree to a great extent with their parents?expectations. There is significant difference in work expectations between in?school students and their teachers.6.Parents and teachers have different views on the senior secondary vocational school students work expectations, yet in some instances they have identical view on these problems.7.In reality, the payment received by graduates falls short of their expectations.8.Students pay more attention to the income they will receive from jobs than to other aspects of job satisfaction.9.Students value the possibility of further education after starting their careers.Written by Yu ling lingDirected by Fan Qi...