Proceso de orientación vocacional y profesional dirigido a estudiantes de bachillerato en una institución educativa fiscomisional

Abstract

This section addressed vocational and professional guidance for high school students. It revealed that most students lack a clear career goal. This undoubtedly highlights, in our profession, the barriers to career choice and how the environment and other factors influence this decision. Students often lack self-awareness, a crucial aspect of career choice, as it fosters greater clarity among adolescents regarding their characteristics, qualities, strengths, and weaknesses in the context of vocational and professional guidance. Through thorough reflection and by providing guidance and information during workshops, students gain an understanding of how to choose a profession that aligns with their abilities—that is, with their self-awareness—and thus discern and establish a point of reference based on their own characteristics when selecting a profession or vocation. Generally speaking, we see how students in the final years of secondary education can succumb to a lack of self-awareness, information, and decisiveness. On the other hand, there are students who actually know what they want to pursue, whether due to following in their parents' footsteps, mere parental pressure, or genuine personal choice. Erik Erikson identifies eight stages of development. Among these, we can associate the third-year high school student with the stage of self-identification conflict and role confusion; that is, the student experiences indecision or confusion regarding the choice of a professional career path.