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Career confusion in the 21st century: challenges and
opportunities
[1] The time and energy that teenagers dedicate to learning and the fields of study they choose profoundly shape the opportunities they will have during their whole lives. Their dreams and aspirations do not just depend on their talents, but they can be highly influenced by their personal background as well as by lhe depth and extent of their knowledge about the world of work. ln summary, students cannot be what they cannot see.
[2] With young people staying in education longer than ever and the labour market automating with unprecedented speed, students need help to make sense of the world of work. ln 2018, lhe OECD Programme for lnternational Student Assessment (PISA), the world's largest dataset on young people's educational experiences, collected first-of-its kind data on this, making it possible to explore how much the career dreams of young people have changed over the past 20 years, how closely they are related to actual labour demand, and how closely aspirations are shaped by social background and gender.
[3] Studies in Australia, lhe United Kingdom and the United States show that teenagers who combine part-time employment with full-time education do better in their school-to-work transitions. The positive benefits include lower probabilities of being unemployed or NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training), higher wages, and others (see Box 1). However, the benefits cannot be taken for granted and some experiences in different countries have demonstrated that governments and schools can better support young people as they prepare themselves for working life.
[4] Schools may provide programmes of career development activities, particularly those that include workplace experience. Experience of lhe world of work challenges young people to understand what it means to be personally effective in different workplaces while providing a unique opportunity to develop social networks of value. Through exposure to the people who do different jobs, young people have the chance to challenge genderand class-based stereotyping and expand their aspirations, easing ultimate entry into the labour market (see Box 2).
[5] However, in recent years, analyses of career preparation have focused on the challenge of misalignment: where the educational plans of young people are out of kilter with their occupational expectations. When young people underestimate the education required to fulfil their dreams, they can expect to find their early working lives more difficult than would be expected. Of particular concern is that most young people whose aspirations are misaligned with their education come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Consequently, it is now clear that career guidance serves an important service in dealing with inequalities.
[6] Results from PISA show that the career aspirations of young people are no simple reflection of teenage academic ability. Rather, they reflect complex lives. Analyses show that lhe children of more advantaged families are more likely to want to go on to university than working class kids. Similarly, career thinking is often determined by gender and immigrant background as well as socioeconomic status. Disadvantaged young people are at clear risk of career confusion. lt is neither fair, nor efficient, for students to move through education with limited views of both lhe amplitude of the labour market and their own potential.
Box 1 - The positive effects of teenage part-time employment
[7] Studies in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States commonly show that teenagers who combine full-time study with part-time work can expect to do better in the adult job market than would be expected, given their backgrounds and academic qualifications. Studies that follow them from childhood to adulthood have routinely found evidence of higher earnings and fewer periods of unemployment. ln an American study which follows young people born in the mid-1970s up to the age of 30, lhe researchers find a positive relationship between working part time at age 14 and 15 and a subjective sense of job realization in adulthood. Teenage students who worked were far more likely to agree at age 30 that they were working in a job that they wanted. However, the exact relationship between working when a teenager and later economic success is not well understood, and the phenomenon may have some disadvantages: students working excessive hours perform worse in final examinations than would otherwise be expected.
Box 2 _ The long-term impacts of career talks
[8] Another study, based on teenagers who, as 16-year-olds, had taken part in a career talk with someone from outside of school, finds that taking part in career talks is associated with significantly better earnings at age 26. The wage premium was found to be at its greatest where students took part in more than tive career talks at age 14-15, rather than at 15-16, and when they agreed at the time that they had been very helpful.
(Adapted from: Dream jobs? Teenager career aspirations and the
future of work. Available at: www.oecd.org/education/dream-jobs-
teenagers- career-aspirations-and-the-future-of-work.htm
<http://www.oecd.org/education/dream-jobs-teenagers-career-
aspirations-and-the-future-of-work.htm >)
According to the text in Box 1, it is correct to say that people who worked a lot and studied when they were teenagers:
Outras questões do mesmo concurso: EN / Asp Of (EN) / 2020
