In recent years, the severe employment situation has made many college entrance examination students and their parents fully consider various factors in the choice of university majors. I hope to find a major that meets my own interests and social needs. I will not only be handy when I study in college, but also work naturally in the future. In this sense, the choice of university majors is directly related to the future career and long-term life planning. Choosing a major in a university is the first step in life planning!
However, according to a survey of students in 1 universities in Shanghai by Xiangyang Career Consulting Agency, 65.8% of the students regret their chosen major. In addition, after statistical analysis of 1 cases of career planning consulting with .5-3 years' work, it is found that as many as 75% of them are more or less due to the mistakes in the choice of university majors, which leads to unclear career orientation or development bottleneck. So how to choose a major correctly?
Three major misunderstandings in major selection
1. Lack of understanding. Not only do I not know myself, but I also don't know my major. I understand its meaning from the surface of the professional name and feel that I like it very much. However, after I really entered the university, I found that what I learned was far from my imagination. There was a case of life science major in Shanghai Jiaotong University. The consultant was fascinated by China's life science and wanted to do research in this field in the future. Before applying for the life science major, he always thought that he should study things like the Book of Changes and numerology. I didn't expect that the real course was about the human body, genes and anatomy, so I was very disappointed. Because I didn't understand my major in the early stage, I entered a field I didn't like. Imagine, the university has just contacted the major and lost interest. How can we learn it well? How can you like the work related to it? How can we do a good job in the future?
2. do as you are told. Obeying the arrangement of parents, due to various considerations, parents hope that their children can engage in some professions that they think are good, thus ignoring their own hobbies. Xiangyang Career In the survey, a female student from Zhejiang in a university in Shanghai said that her ideal is to be a lawyer who upholds justice. Her parents helped her to choose a financial major in a university in Shanghai when she filled in the college entrance examination because her uncle was an executive of a financial institution in Zhejiang, hoping that she would also have a backer in her future development. Lawyers can only be a lingering dream in her mind.
3. Follow the trend. In the college entrance examination, the phenomenon of blindly following the trend accounts for a considerable proportion. In recent years, which major is popular, the number of applicants has increased linearly. No matter whether parents or their own choices are suitable for them, what will be the market prospect after four years of college study? The finance major, which was very popular a few years ago, has now become calm, but the supply in the job market is still exceeding the demand.
How to avoid blind choice
In view of many cases of failure in major selection, Xiangyang career planners have conducted in-depth research and analysis. To avoid blindness in major selection, college entrance examination students and their parents need to pay attention to the following key points:
1. Understand the real interests of college entrance examination students and have a deep understanding of these majors. You can log on to the websites of relevant professional schools to learn about the direction of professional training, the main courses offered, and the general whereabouts of graduates. In this way, I have a general understanding of my major. Then confirm whether these courses are of interest to you and whether you are equally enthusiastic about the work you may do in the future. If you don't feel interested, don't force yourself. After all, interest is the driving force for learning. If interest is gone, four years in college will be very stressful.
2. The college entrance examination students should neither ignore the parents' suggestions lightly, nor blindly follow them, but comprehensively grasp them selectively. Parents give advice to a "modern person" from the perspective of a "experienced person", which inevitably conflicts with their children's ideas. However, it should be clear that it is the candidates themselves who will eventually face the university for four years. Therefore, candidates should think deeply about what they want. If they follow their parents' advice, can they follow the route designed by their parents?
Candidates can communicate with their parents and gain their understanding. Of course, considering their own inexperience, they can also adopt their parents' suggestions selectively with the help of teachers or brothers and sisters. The most important thing is that no matter whether you insist on your own opinion or "succumb" to your parents' ideas, you must first love your future major for four years before you can work hard. Li's family is well-off, and his parents run a business alone, so I especially hope that my son can study this major so that he can go home and inherit the family business after graduation. However, this classmate is introverted and quiet, likes to play with some gadgets and is ashamed to communicate with others. After going to college, I have little communication with my classmates and have always been resistant to my parents. During this period, the career planner had in-depth communication with Li and his parents. He transferred to the software development major in his sophomore year and participated in the "Challenge Cup" science and technology competition for college students in his senior year. His ID card identification system won the first prize. Of course, there are countless similar examples.
3. It is the most unwise to follow the trend. If you follow the crowd without considering your own interests, once the tide is gone, it is easy to be abandoned by the crowd. The wave of "at that time" can only explain the reality of "at that time", which is caused by the social situation of "at that time", and you are facing the future, so you should analyze with a developing eye: is this major your own interest? Is this major suitable for you? If the expansion goes on like this, will there be saturation? Can I find a new way to find a "dark horse" major that comes out with the development of social situation ...
Career planning begins with the choice of major
This year's college entrance examination is about to begin, and candidates and parents should choose their major scientifically. Career orientation and planning are fundamental. How to apply the consciousness of career orientation and planning to the choice of majors, the following suggestions are put forward to the career planner of CCDM in Xiangyang career: < P > First, we must have clear goals. Choose the right direction according to your personal interests. If you want to study abroad or be a research-oriented talent in the future, it is more appropriate to choose basic subjects. Candidates should have a career plan for themselves. Different personal career plans will lead to different majors.
Secondly, the popular newspaper should not ignore the unpopular one. When applying for the exam, we should pay attention to the combination of "cold" and "hot", focus on choosing several popular majors, and then match several unpopular and personally interested majors.
Third, we should choose the popular majors according to the individual's learning situation. The scores of popular majors are generally high. If the academic performance is not outstanding, it is best to avoid "hot" and "cold".
finally, it is very important to fully understand the market of popular majors. Due to the timeliness of popular majors, not all popular majors will always be popular. Candidates should know the current situation and employment situation of this major before entering the exam.
Of course, after entering the university, they should also seriously think about designing their own career plans in the university stage, constantly improve and supplement their choices and personal situations in view of the social environment and employment situation, and strengthen their self-expansion practice, so as to make their professional knowledge and social needs develop, their potential and future career development * * * *. When choosing a major, we should also pay attention to mechanical change. The so-called mechanical change means that once you have determined a major that you think is correct, after a period of time, when you find that this major is contrary to your original intention, you can make timely corrections by relying on your own appropriate efforts and efforts, such as changing majors.
major choice is the first plan of personal career. It is not only a question of learning a major, but also a question that determines what we will face in the next four years, even related to our life's work. Xiangyang Career Consulting Agency hopes that all college entrance examination candidates and their parents will treat their major choices with caution. If necessary, they may wish to ask professional career planners for advice. After all, a good start is half the battle!