Career exploration workshops for junior and senior high school students (April 20 and 27)

Hello, this is Kaburaki, GLI representative.

How do I decide on a career path?

In the past (your parents' time) you may not have had to worry so much.

This is because in the late Showa and Heisei eras, Japanese society was surprisingly stable in a sense, and the paths taken by many people were easy to understand.

Deviation is more important than content. The name of the school is more important than the major. In the Showa and Heisei eras, the only guidance for career paths was a pass/fail judgment of mock exam results without any consideration.

It was a time when the goal after graduating from college was to find a job in a well-known and stable company, especially in a well-known company or ministry. There was a very easy route to take.

How about now?

Society and the world have changed, and I believe that it is no longer possible to envision the future by simply focusing on deviation scores and choosing a career path that only requires passing an entrance exam.

Values related to higher education have also diversified.

A school that is better suited to you than one that is even one deviation higher. A job that is more rewarding than stability or a big company.

In this age, it is unthinkable to work for a lifetime once you get a job.

The collapse of the 100 million middle class society that had been a major characteristic of Japan and the widening gap between the rich and the poor. In the age of 100 years of life, pensions alone are not enough to live on in old age.

Japan's economy is in the doldrums, and its GDP per capita has fallen to 26th in the world.

The exchange rate has been weakening more and more, and at the unprecedented rate of 160 yen to the dollar, people from abroad are now coming to Japan to buy brand-name products.

In Europe and the U.S., hourly wages are not less than $20 per hour, and even part-time workers can earn more than half a million dollars per month, which is why young migrant workers are becoming a hot topic these days.

The number of special entrance examinations for junior high school students has increased, and prestigious public schools from England have also arrived.

In the college entrance examinationThe number of applicants for the recommended entrance examination exceeded the number of applicants for the general entrance examination.In recent years, the media has been"Admissions during the year."This theme has been covered in a number of articles.

The university's application guidelines are reallyDiverse entrance examinationsis taking place, and it is already far from the norm of three subjects for private liberal arts British companies.

It is everyone's experience that in our time, we never even looked at the recruiting process.

Is it acceptable to make old-fashioned career choices under these circumstances?

Is the idea of a career path in the context of the University of Tokyo to the bureaucracy (famous company), which once symbolized Japan's higher education to employment, really still valid today?

I believe that many schools offer career guidance when students enter high school. But that career guidance is nothing more than the context described above.

Public or private university? Humanities or sciences? From there, choose the subjects you want to study. After taking mock examinations and receiving a pass/fail grade, the student decides where to go on to higher education.

The term "career guidance," in other words, is written as "to guide one's way forward.

The path forward should be where you are at 25, 30, 40, and 50 years old, how you work, and how you live. There should be a wide variety of choices and a wide variety of ways to live.

What is the treasure (the value of happiness)? and the Showa Heisei era, when I was able to visualize where that treasure was and how to get to it.

The treasures, whereabouts, and how to get to them have truly diversified in 2021.

It is not possible to give the same career guidance, and in the first place, it is not possible to unilaterally give this treasure, where it is, and how to get there from here.

The only way to do this is to give them hints and ask them to think and seek for themselves.

I told you how to do it,This Career Exploration WorkshopIt is.

A workshop to think about one's own career path by oneself.

This is a workshop that never gives you the answers, but rather allows you to think about your own career path on your own.

This workshop will tell you what to think, how to make decisions, how to move forward, how to proceed, and how to make it happen.

The major goal is to achieve a rich and happy life,We think from the point of view of the following.

Not what kind of job do you want, but what do you want to solve with that job? The career exploration is to explore what you should study in what department to achieve that goal.

Parents are also welcome to attend if interested. One parent also participated this time.

We recommend that parents and children think about this together.

The reason,This is because there are many cases of parents' values hindering their children's career paths in the field of high school guidance.

If you are interested, please join us next time.

　
turnip-shaped whistle made of hollowed-out wood or deer horn (attached to an arrow to sound when fired)