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Had she considered looking in western Canada, I asked wealthy businessman in India, had warned her agains cold, and too much crime, he said. He had steered her aw job market in the country.
Imran Fancy, 27, told me about a day shortly after he g school. He was sitting at home in Toronto when a wom government called, selling him on the benefits of going in be interested?
He asked his mother. She shook her head no. She was get a university education. So he earned a degree, and th in human resources. When I met him, the only work he at The Keg (he has since added part-time teaching at a c That phone call? Fancy told me, “I would definitely take do an apprenticeship or do a skilled trade. I could ha myself and learning.”
Study after study shows that teenagers rely on th primary source of career advice. A survey conducted by found that 33 per cent of Canadians described their par supportive of their jobs search and career path.” How respondents said their parents were “supportive but help,” and 5 per cent said their parents were “overbear me pursue my own career wishes.”
So, what is the best way for parents to support their opment given that they are not experts?
Frans Meijers is a Dutch social scientist who has spent ing how people arrive at their career decisions and w career counselling. He is a professor of education at The Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. He is also the daughters.
On how to support a child’s career development, his “first of all, never, ever get angry. (Second,) always passionate about, what they want to do, and give them th it. Third, always talk to them. Always ask them, not lect about what they did today, how they felt about it. Value
In his view, the goal is to encourage teenagers “to beco make their own choices about what they want to le articulate why they want to learn it.”
SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO Jeff Harris stood on the thr and felt lost. He had studied economics at university knew he didn’t want to be a professor.
“I was finishing up university and I didn’t have a clue w next. I looked around and realized I wasn’t alone. There in the same boat.”