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7 Reasons Why Career Planning is a Must in TVET Institutions

Have you taken career planning seriously in your institution? Or in your own personal life? I wish I had.
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Career Planning in TVET. Source: aesta1
Maybe, I would have followed a different career path or at least felt like there were options . I am not unhappy with my success but I have interests I would have pursued had I known more about these. 

I finished high school a long time ago when there was yet no internet. Life in our town was very simple. Information was very limited beyond the radio and local newspapers. In fact, many of the books in our school were old, not really vintage, as development then was not exponential as it is now.
Still, I would have profited and many more of my schoolmates, too, had we had the range of information available now.

Our choices then were limited by the lean information available to us and the even narrower expectations of our families. We had no career counsellors we could go to or chat with online
So, today, with all the information and resources available, there is no excuse for anyone to take career planning for granted. It is key to your future success and more importantly, your happiness. Why?
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Thinking of a Career in TVET? Source: aesta1
Here are the reasons why you need to do career planning:
  1. Enables you to make an informed  career decision.
  2. Leads you in the direction of the career path most suited for you.
  3. Fulfills your personal interests and thus determines much of your career success.
  4. Ensures you of a more motivated approach to your pursuit of your career.
  5. As we all know, our dream jobs are reached only after we have taken the necessary steps and have built up the skills and competence for it. Having a career plan most likely will enable us to clearly plan those needed steps towards that dream job. It gives us a road map of how to achieve such a dream job.
  6. A road map will also alert us to road signs, to turns, to closed bridges, to short cuts, to clear achievable chunks of the journey, thereby really building  the  motivation and drive  we need to be successful.
  7. A career plan makes difficult pathways more manageable and enables us to develop our potential in spite of difficulties knowing that this is the road taking us to success. I will also reveal options in the same general direction that may appeal to use even more!
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High School Graduates and Careers. Source: aesta1
For TVET, it is crucial. Many kids in high school don’t even know the benefits of technical and vocational education. The only path for them is university. 

Many don’t realize that TVET is not just for the poor performers in academics. TVET courses today demand not just intelligence but fine skills. Many high school students think that skills courses only lead to poor paying jobs. Wrong.

In the case of countries which export labour, this mentality has changed as many of the skilled workers get better pay and find immediate employment in other countries when their academic colleagues languish in Hamburg Huts.  


I know of some university graduates in North America who would rather work in the nail spa as they can earn more there than in low paying  desk job that lets them talk only to their computer. They are also learning skills that can lead to owning their own business and being the next Unicorn. 
At the same time, be wary of your well laid out career plan.

Change takes place faster than what often we can pursue so make sure that your plan includes the development of skills that are basic to many of the emerging trends in the workplace.
These include communications which means excellent speaking and writing skills, working well with others, leadership, advanced computer, skills  and social and emotional intelligence.

This way, you can have flexibility to shift towards a new direction or to take a new pathway.

For school managers,  having career planning as part of your TVET institution will enhance the success of your graduates and will encourage many more to pursue and career in TVET.
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  • Home
    • About Us
    • Privacy Policy
  • TVET Articles
    • Why TVET Must Focus on Digital Education
    • TVET and the Growing Global Mobility of Labour
    • The Future of TVET
    • 9 Challenges to TVET in Developing Countries
    • A More Effective Model for Investing in Skills
    • Understanding TVET-Technical and Vocational Education and Training
    • Top 6 Benefits of Vocational and Technical Education for Secondary School Students
    • The Astounding Benefits of Developing Credit and Non Credit Part Time Learning
    • How to Start Cost Recovery in TVET Institutions
    • Levy System in TVET
    • How Did Nice People Like Us Get Into a Mess Like This?
    • Basic Components of an HRD System in National TVET Operations
    • Is the Knowledge Gap Getting Bigger?
    • Skills Bridging in TVET: The Cambodia Experience
    • 8 Ways to Ease Youth Unemployment and Underemployment
    • Employability Skills for TVET Graduates
    • 7 Effective Steps to Engage Employers in TVET
    • Why Employer Based Training is Key to Economic Success
    • Employment Skills Units in TVET Institutions
    • 10 Key Lessons in Revenue Generation for TVET
    • Expanded TVET Training Increases Employment
    • Are TVET Institutions Quietly Falling Off the Edge in Today's Digital World?
    • 10 Management Tips for TVET Leaders
    • Why Marketing is Important in TVET
    • Client Targeting: A Must in TVET Marketing
    • A Basic Marketing Plan for a Small Public TVET Institution
    • Culture: A Challenge to TVET
    • Reinventing the Government Technical College
    • A More Effective Role for Government in TVET
    • Demand for Higher Level TVET Training?
    • 8 Ways of Attracting Students to TVET
  • TVET Trends
    • Change in TVET is Not just Coming, It’s Here
    • 7 Reasons Why Career Planning is a Must in TVET Institutions
    • The Need for New Pathways in TVET Delivery
    • The Impact of a Massive Shift in TVET Demand
    • The Impact of a Shift in Demand for TVET in Developing Economies
    • The Necessity of Partnerships in TVET
    • Why Industry Hesitates to Partner with Government
    • Top 5 Technical School to University Transitioning Concerns
    • Education and Industry Collaboration in TVET: 11 Effective steps
    • Why TVET Needs to Strengthen Links with Industry
    • 7 Powerful Ways to Change Employer’s Attitude towards TVET
    • 6 TVET Institutional Requirements to Develop Linkages with Industry
    • Latest Books for TVET Practitioners
    • Latest Gadgets for TVET Practitioners
    • Hands-On Approach to TVET Teaching
    • TVET Teacher Training: The Model that Does Not Work
  • TVET Issues
  • TVET Links
    • Consulting Companies Bidding on TVET Projects
    • TVET in Different Countries
    • TVET Reading List
    • Online Distance Learning Courses Related to TVET
    • Reading List: Skills Development