Study on Professional Guidance on Teaching Settings

摘要

Vocational guidance activities have an important role during the learning process. The happiness of individuals in their career is directly related with their love of the job they do. As a consequence, the importance should be paid to the vocational preference in the early stages of educational life. In this study, a research has been carried out about the secondary school students in Turkey. In the first step of the study students are asked which profession they will prefer. In the second step “Personality Inventory” Holland test is applied to students in order to see which profession field they tend to. In the last part of the research, the findings that are gathered by comparing the profession that each student in the sample would like to choose and the profession or professions that the student is apt to as a result of the test will be interpreted and suggestions will be offered to student him/herself, his family and to the institutions that is thought to be suitable.