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Careers
For many parents this is a
significant concern. After all if your child does not know what
they should be doing with their life, what is the point of learning
anything?
Some children know from an
early age what they would like to do when they “grow up”.
Others struggle and they are never really sure just exactly what
they should be doing with their life.
For others their career path
changes and they end up in a vocation that is quite different
to what that may have thought.
It is important as parents
to try and establish what is the most likely career and vocation
path for your child, and then plan and prepare the most appropriate
programmes to help them achieve this.
By finding out what your child’s
most likely career path will be you can plan and prepare programmes
that are the most effective in equipping your child for the future.
There are a number of excellent
vocation and career guidance programmes available which are designed
to help identify the most likely career path for your child.
1) Career Discovery
Career Discovery uses two of the most successful, powerful and
thoroughly researched “Individual Profile Analysis”
programmes currently available.
It involves a personal interview
and consultation process that will identify, clarify and assess
how: Personality, Abilities, Values, Interest and Aptitude, effect
our future career options.
With Career Discovery you will
have the resources and tools with which to more accurately and
effectively predict, match and plan your: Future Career Options,
Future Career Performance, and Future Career Action Plan.
2) Career Discovery Seminars
The Career Discovery Seminar is a one-day seminar that looks
at the essential biblical principles for career planning.
Combining Powerpoint presentation,
practical activities and student participation, the seminar is
followed up by an optional personal consultation and assessments
designed to establish an action plan for the future.
The seminar covers: Building a Biblical Work Ethic, Discovering
God’s Way of Handling Money and Understanding Your God Given
Design.
3) Career Yes
Career Yes is a Christian based programme that takes students
through a series of interesting and fun activities designed to
help them discover their most likely career path.
It is suited more for early
secondary level students (Year 9 to 11), but can also be used
with older student.
The programme is self-instructional
and can be reused for other family members.
4) Career Direct
Career Direct is a biblically based, computerized assessment
that analyses the student’s responses to a series of questions,
and prints a comprehensive report providing suggestions and advice
on possible career options. It also helps students prepare their
own Action Plan for the future.
A series of audio messages
takes the student step by step through the programme providing
inspirational and educational material that will help the student
understand the report and interpret it’s relevance to their
life.
You may also requesting a personal
consultation with one of the Home Schooling NZ staff, who will help you prepare
your Action Plan and discuss the various options available to
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