Career Orientation

National Economics University

Faculty of Advanced Education Program

Research Project:

Career-orientation Problems and Solutions

For AEP Students Intake 56.

Instructor: Ms. Nguy Thuy Trang

Bui Duy Hung

Do Duc Chung,

Nguyen Vu Hoang

 Dao Quoc Anh

Hanoi, November 2015

Acknowledgement

We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to our teacher Ms. Nguy Thuy Trang who gave us the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic Career-orientation Problems and Solutions for AEP Students Intake 56, which also helped us in doing a lot of research and we came to know about so many new things I am really thankful to them.

Secondly we would also like to thank our parents and friends, both in our class Advance Finance 56A and in our department of Advance Excellent Program, who helped us a lot in finalizing this project within the limited time frame.

• Nguy Thuy Trang, M.A.

Vice Head

Department of Business English

Faculty of foreign languages

National Economics University, Hanoi

• Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Anh

Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN)

• Dr. Trinh Van Tung

University of Social Sciences & University - Vietnam National University, Hanoi (USSH - VNU)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement        

Introduction        

1. Topic
2. Background
3. Rationale
4. Purpose
5. Scope
6. Research Question
7. Research method

Literature Review        

1. Career-orientation

1.1. Definition

1.2. The importance of orientation

1. Problems

2.1. Situations

2.2. The reason for problems

1. Solution

3.1. Common directions

Major findings        

References:        

Introduction

Career-orientation problems and solutions for AEP students intake 56.

1. Topic:

This project researches career-orientation problems and solutions for AEP student intake 56. We look into difficulties which they often meet, and from that point we offer some ways to deal with these matters.

1. Background:

• The fact that a large number of students nowadays do not have any future prospects is affecting the majors selecting decision of students.
• A lot of mistakes which were created when the students make their career-orientations become unsuitable for students, and make them unsatisfied with their studies.
• The huge variety of employments for students to consider, in combination with the influence from the families make the students’ career decisions become harder than ever before.

1. Rationale:

• Students’ studies become better when they have specific future targets, and motivations to reach their goals.
• The rate of unemployment for newly graduated students will be reduced.

1. Purposes:

• To build a throughout and systematic understandings about the situation of lacking skills in choosing the career.
• To find the root causes of the problem and to propose solutions for the matter.
• To increase the percentage of students who are career-oriented.

1. Scope:

• AEP-NEU students intake 56, Accounting and Finance Major.

1. Research Question:

• How is the state of career-orientation among AEP students nowadays?
• What are the common mistakes created by AEP students when choosing the careers?
• Why do the students make these mistakes?
• How to help the students to be career-oriented?

1. Research Method: (pl.)

• There are 3 ways of getting information.
• From previous trusted research and documents: Numbers, charts, index…
• From students: Make a combinations of multiple choice question about gender inequality.
•  Online: 20 questions.

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Literature Review

1. Career-orientation.

1. Definition:

Career orientation has been defined by both the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2004, p.19) and in a World Bank report (Watts and Fretwell, 2004, p.2) as:

Career orientation aiding intended to assist individuals, of any age and any point throughout their lives, to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers. They include three main elements:

• Career information, covering information on courses, occupations and career paths. This includes labour market information. It may be provided in print form, but increasingly is web-based in nature.

• Career counselling, conducted on a one-to-one basis or in small groups, in which attention is focused on the distinctive career issues faced by individuals.

• Career education, as part of the educational curriculum, in which attention is paid to helping groups of individuals to develop the competences for managing their career development.

A career orientation can refer to a few different things. The first is a method of introduction to a new job; a new employee might be shown around the office, assisted in filling out certain paperwork, or be given certain presentations regarding the job. If an individual always chooses or pursues a certain type of job, or a job in a particular field, this can be viewed as his or her orientation.