Helping Your Children To Think About Careers

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Children have big decisions to make even though you might not like to think they do they are going to have to make choices through their school life that could lead to certain careers. From a young age, you will be the biggest influence to them for what they choose to do through school. When they get to a certain age where they have to choose things like their own College, university, apprenticeship, and work experience but also a career that they can take into their adult life.

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You have a massive influence on the lives of young people. How can you support them and teach them about the different available careers? Let's have a look below in more detail:

Ask Them What They Know 

The best thing that you need to do is to talk to them about what a career is and the point of having one. You can then ask them questions about what types of careers they know and then educate them on the types of careers that are available. Children are quite young the answers that you hear will probably be things like a fireman policeman or a teacher. A young one may get things like I want to be an astronaut or I want to be a space Ranger like Buzz Lightyear. 

Talk About Your Career

It's really good if you can talk to your children about your job and how that is a career. Might be that you are taking it break from working or you have now become a full-time parent if that's the case then just talk about the types of careers that you have had in your life and what you did to achieve them. You will find that once you start talking about your career you start talking to your children about what a career does. They will want to know more and they will start asking questions. You can educate your children on the fact that a career is about choosing something that they love to do whilst being able to earn the money to do and enjoy the things that they like to do recreationally. 

Teach Them Their Options 

You have asked them what they already know and spoken about your career you can start to give them different options and choices for other careers that are in the world. The huge variety of jobs available There is going to be something that Sparks their interest. If you find that they want to ask questions about different career options that are available show them some information and try to help them to figure out if it’s something they would like to pursue in the future. If for example, they say that they would like to join the military you can start to prepare for asvab math placement test with them. 

We'll find that as your children grow and see you working in the family home they will become more interested in the types of careers that are available. The tips above will help you kickstart that thought process. Have your children started to talk about the types of jobs that they would like to do in the future? It would be great to hear your thoughts below.