First of all, according to the feedback from colleges and universities, let's look at some noteworthy problems for middle school students to apply for colleges and universities. According to the survey of a comprehensive key university, on average, about 46% students don't like their major after entering school. The reason is:
The major you apply for is not your own choice, but according to the opinions of your parents, teachers and friends. After understanding the major, I found that the major was not suitable for me.
② The major I want to study can't be realized because of the college entrance examination scores, so I passively accepted the existing major.
(3) I don't know much about my major, only from the professional name; I didn't consider my major and my cooperation from my own personality.
(4) I chose a major against my will when I had to.
Everyone reacts differently when they don't like their major very much. Except for a few people who have the possibility of changing their majors when all the conditions are met, most people can only grasp the reality they face by themselves. Some people can take the initiative to make a supplementary study plan for themselves to lay the foundation for doing their favorite work in the future; Some people keep pace with the times and adapt themselves to new changes; Some people are not so active. They lack crisis awareness and are used to passive thinking. They don't like the study life in front of them, and they don't like being busy pursuing anything. They can muddle along, and they are not moved by their failure in study. They will comfort themselves. Anyway, my parents make decisions for me, no matter what happens in the future. From such a student. We can also see that a person has not understood the disadvantages of preparing for his career when he is in college.
The above problems show that you should attach great importance to your hobbies when considering the schools and majors you apply for, because this will affect your learning effect and future development; At the same time, the family's investment in your education is not small, so it is natural to strive for good investment benefits. So you should pay attention to:
① Don't blindly pursue the "hot majors" in the society, but choose to fill in the majors according to your own abilities and interests. The major you don't like, however popular, may not be your best choice.
When you don't know what your interests are, it's obvious that you don't know enough about yourself, or you haven't discussed your career development. If you want voluntary activities to pave the way for your smooth development in the future, you can do some remedial discussions to discover your interests, including self-exploration in other aspects, which are introduced in the later chapters of this book.
(3) Sometimes your desire to seek career guidance can't be realized, which requires you to be a conscientious person and collect information bit by bit at ordinary times, so that you can be fully sure when making decisions.
2. Handle the relationship between school and major.
Should we pay attention to the reputation of the school or the major we studied when applying for a school? This problem should be considered comprehensively in light of our own conditions. The significance of being optimistic about the school when applying for volunteering is that a good school can provide you with a good academic qualification, which can be measured from the following points:
The school has a strong faculty and a high level of scientific research, which can give students the most advanced professional information and subject knowledge. Experiential teaching can enhance students' thinking ability, cultivate students to master scientific learning methods, and make them have a good professional foundation and comprehensive development potential after entering the society.
A good school has a long tradition and a good school spirit. In a strong cultural atmosphere, everyone will be influenced by the spirit, which is conducive to the sublimation of people's ideological realm. In complex and challenging work, people's mental outlook, attitude and professional ideological realm play an important role.
③ Every school has gathered corresponding student groups, and the interaction of student groups plays an important role in a person's personality growth and maturity. In the cross-cultural campus atmosphere (with students from different cultural backgrounds around the world and receiving multicultural education), individual learning has a richer perspective and stronger confidence in success.
From the traditional impression of society, well-known schools are more likely to be valued by powerful large enterprises, so they will also favor the students trained by the school, which gives students more choices and advantages in employment.
And consider a good major also has the following favorable factors:
① Some schools may not be first-class as a whole, but the level of a certain professional discipline in the school is very high. For example, the development of professional disciplines is at the leading level in the field of social peers; The department where the subject is located has the ability to train doctors and masters; There are a group of experienced teachers. All these conditions are conducive to cultivating talents with professional ability.
When you pay more attention to professional development in line with your own interests, choosing your own professional direction is more conducive to your further study, allowing you to focus on your favorite fields, learn and master professional skills in a down-to-earth manner, and prepare for your pursuit. More importantly, you won't learn passively because you don't like it, and you won't be easily influenced by others to give up your career ideal. Because all this is carefully chosen by yourself, you will cherish it.
When you study in a good school, you have to face a large number of strong players. If you can't surpass others in some aspects, maybe you will gradually form a kind of "I can't" unconsciousness, which will limit your potential ability. But you chose a good major instead of a school. You have more opportunities to develop your self-confidence, find your sense of value in time, improve your ambition level, and your potential will be gradually released. I hope you can keep a full mental state in the crowd and finally make yourself a great talent in all aspects.
People who value school environmental conditions generally have two tendencies, one is those who are particularly eager to learn knowledge, and the other is those who need to control themselves with the help of environmental forces. There is no guarantee that you will be an excellent talent in a famous school, but as long as you work hard, you will become an excellent talent in an ordinary school. Therefore, choosing a school and choosing a major is entirely up to you, depending on how much you know about yourself. Can you be independent and self-disciplined? Are you good at planning? How active are you? If you have all these conditions, you will get good grades no matter where you study, so it is not difficult for you to make a choice.
3. Be fully prepared before filling in the volunteers.
Employment begins with choosing college entrance examination volunteers. Because under normal circumstances, the college entrance examination volunteer you choose basically determines the professional direction of your study, and it is very unlikely that you will transfer to another school or major after entering the university. This is an unchangeable fact. Therefore, it is very important to prepare for your career exploration in middle school. You should learn from knowing yourself, society and major, and prepare for your important choice. For example:
(1) Understand the development trend of society.
After China's accession to the World Trade Organization, the development of human resources in all walks of life will also be brought into the worldwide operation mode. The development of human resources in developed areas has been standardized and scientific in many aspects, such as selecting people, employing people and retaining people. For example, foreign countries especially emphasize the cooperation between personality and occupation, and think that individuals can give full play to their potential only if they are very interested in doing a certain job well, so their work efficiency is higher, which is not a new concept abroad. How will you cope with this trend and look at your future with the eyes of the world?
(2) Know the limitations of your choice.
Fully understand the significance of obtaining vocational guidance or guidance before entering the university. Applying for university is an important moment in everyone's life, and it is a long-term yearning for students to enter an ideal university and ideal major. However, there is still a general lack of vocational guidance in schools. In the study task of high school, more emphasis is placed on exams, and few schools provide students with career guidance. Many students choose their own wishes without correct guidance, which is far from the fact that foreign schools attach great importance to vocational guidance. In foreign countries, career counseling is a hot career before personality counseling. In developed areas, schools generally have the function of career counseling to help students grasp their own career development direction. At present, we still need to deepen our understanding of vocational guidance and popularize this concept. A career counselor in Canada introduced an example of his work, saying that he had been absent from school for half a month because of attending an academic conference. When he came back, he found that six students had gone to an enterprise without his guidance. . To this end, he immediately rushed to the place where students far away from the school worked and made up his consultation for them. There, he and the students further inspected the enterprise where he worked, asked the students to expect the changes of the enterprise in five years, and reminded them of the impact of this change on themselves and what preparations can be made now. This example tells us that when choosing a major or work direction, we should pay special attention to examining our decisions with a rational eye. In this process, we should pay attention to our feelings, respect our wishes and consciously accept some useful help from others.
Now the number of college graduates is increasing year by year, and the competitiveness of employment is also increasing year by year. The opening of the national job market has increased the mobility of graduates around the world. If you are a student in a big city, you will apply with outstanding graduates from all over the world. If you want to maintain your competitive advantage, you should foster strengths and avoid weaknesses when filling in your volunteers, and choose a professional direction that is conducive to your future career development.