CAREER GUIDANCE A PRACTICAL APPROACH For High School Students & College Freshmen - Paperback

by Felicia Oforiwa Omotosho (Author)

The purpose of this handbook is to assist high school students and college freshmen to make objective career decisions, and choose appropriate courses and training towards the achievement of their career goals. According to Frank Parsons (1854-1908), who was known as the father of vocational counselling, ideal career choices are based on matching personal traits (aptitude, abilities, resources, personality) with job factors (wages, environment etc.) to produce the best of the trait/factor theory of career development. In order to make decisions toward appropriate career choice, students need career information, which may include self-assessment tools, to help them develop their self-awareness, opportunity awareness and career education which students receive in high school. The curriculum in high school includes career planning, where students are given a wealth of information about career and college planning. School counsellors assist high school students in setting goals, researching options, and long range career and college planning. This book offers a simple and practical self-assessment tool to help students match their personality characteristics to occupations and make appropriate career and training decisions. Students would be able to take courses that would lead them towards their career goals. Parents would also benefit from this book, and would be able to guide their children in making good career decisions.

Author Biography

About The Author Dr. (Mrs.) Felicia Oforiwa Omotosho (Nee Anno-Nyako) was born in Ghana, West Africa. She attended the University of Cape-Coast, Ghana between 1972 and 1976, and a year abroad program at the University of Dakar, Senegal in 1974, and graduated in French, English and Education in 1976. She got married to a Nigerian, Mr. Bamidele Olutunji Omotosho and moved to Lagos in December 1977. She had her Masters and PHD in Educational Psychology with specialization in Guidance and Counseling between 1980 and 1987 respectively at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She was employed by the Lagos Teaching Service Commission as a French teacher at the Government Girls' College, Agege in 1977. After her Master degree, she had her internship at the Psycho-educational Services Department of the Lagos State Ministry of Education, and was later deployed to the Lagos State Schools Management Committee, Agege, as an Area Counseling Officer for the Ikeja and Agege School District. She moved to the Federal level as a Senior Research Officer at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) at Jibowu, Lagos. She worked as a counselor with the African Refugee Foundation (AREF) and was deployed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Lagos, Nigeria in 1997 as a Counselor and Community Services Assistant, during the influx of Liberian refugees into Nigeria. She joined Management Education and Training Limited as an Executive Director, a Counselor, and School Administrator in 2001. She also coordinated the Partnership collaboration program for Distance Learning between Management Education and Training Limited and the University of South Africa (UNISA) between 2001 and 2014, where she worked as Higher Education Advisor, And Admissions Counselor. She is a member of the Counseling Association of Nigeria (CASSON), American Psychological Association (APA), Illinois School Counseling Association (ISCA), American School Counseling Association (ASCA) and Illinois Counseling Association (ICA). Her Leisure times are spent in creative works like writing, drawing and painting.