The child decided to come to college! But to decide on future profession and the place where it can be received, sometimes extremely difficult for the teenager. And, of course, the help of parents, their reasonable councils will not prevent here. Only and to parents happens not easy to prompt a right direction.
There is nothing fatal
Choosing educational institution and specialty on which the teenager will study, it is necessary to represent accurately whether the college for it is the place where he will receive the final profession to which he is going to devote all life, or this grade level will become only an intermediate link between school and HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION.
In the second case it is worth making a choice for college at a higher educational institution to which eventually the child plans to come. As a rule, in these educational institutions the successive program allowing to reduce the term of further training in HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION is provided. Quite often at the university and college at it the same faculty members. Transition to the following step will be smoother and natural to the teenager, and the college will allow to define finally whether this specialty suits it and will prepare base for its deeper study.
If the college is a final planned link in education by the child, choosing educational institution, it is worth remembering after all that even if the got education will not become for the teenager a basis of successful professional activity, then will serve as the quite good base for further training and work. Besides the expert with secondary professional education will be hired even if not on a profile, much more willingly, than the person who finished 9 classes of school. Further if desired the young man will be able to continue training: to enter to the UNIVERSITY, to finish other average professional institution, courses, etc. So anyway you should not treat the choice of specialty as to something final and invariable.
To estimate tendencies and opportunities
Often teenagers choose college, being guided not by professional tendencies and abilities, and "for the company" with friends or because there it is easier to study or because the chosen educational institution is close from the house. Adults, of course, understand all insolvency of such motivation, and their task to help the child to understand that nevertheless tendencies and abilities of the child have to become the decisive factor defining the choice. It is possible to define tendency of the teenager to any given profession, having addressed the psychologist, or having independently passed several professional orientation tests. As a rule, by 15-16 years the teenager has already enough a clear view, than he likes to be engaged and to what at it "soul does not lie", and it needs to be considered too. So, the person having tendency to the exact sciences can choose the accountant's profession, and can be engaged in IT-technologies, and these are absolutely different things! It is quite good to take an interest what professions are most demanded now and what of them will keep the relevance in the next 5-10 years. So, professionals in the field of construction, nanotechnologies, health workers, ecologists, PR-managers and IT specialists will be demanded in the nearest future. And here the market of experts in the field of, for example, economy and law is already crowded. Besides, you should not forget that how society developed, workers of the food sphere, services industry and trade, pedagogical shots and other "eternal" specialties will be always required for it. You should not insist also on the obligatory prospect of receiving the higher education for the child, especially if for this purpose it has neither tendencies, nor special abilities. Often skilled workers are more demanded, they have good chances to find more highly paid job, than at some "white collars". Besides, you should not forget that from those who started the professional career from "bottoms" finally the most competent and qualified heads turn out. And if further the young man who chose working specialty feels taste to professional growth, it will have for this purpose every chance.