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Career Related Poor Decision Making Can Cost You

The Importance of Skill Assessment in Teens

Introduction: The Pressure on Teens and Career Decisions

There’s a lot of pressure on teens these days.  School demands focus, and then there’s the never-ending pressure to figure out what they want to do with their life, especially when it comes to something as “permanent” as a career path.  From the time they reach 8th or 9th grade, most students are on a set career path that determines where they go to postsecondary school and then, eventually, how they enter the job market and establish themselves.

How Teenagers Typically Choose their Careers

No matter how you look at it, the age of 14-18 is a young one to make such an important decision, and this is made worse by the fact that it’s often done without the proper assessment tools to help make it easier and more logical. The costs of poor decision making can be severe and life-long for teens, furthering the need for proper problem-solving. 

The common problem

Teens have to figure out what they want to dedicate their time to, by the time they enter high school.  It determines what courses they take, what schools or programs they apply to, and how they enter the diverse world of careers.

That’s a big thing to decide.  Most teens will make these decisions using one, or multiple, of three main selection factors:

  • A career based on their current interests: Hobbies and interests are important, to be clear, but they often change quickly, especially in this age group with so many developments.  This leads to some teens pursuing careers based on interests that are passing and have long since changed and passed. 
  • A career based on the best choice for financial security: Being stable financially is absolutely important too, but only one part of the equation.  A creative thinker who feels “forced” to take on a career in finance or legal fields will know that they are going to be secure financially, but their creativity will be squashed in the process.
  • A career based on what their family members/friends chose: You see this a lot in modern-day teens.  Because their parents are electricians, mechanics, and teachers, many will go after the same path because they know what it looks like and what it offers.  This is fine if the ten’s interests line up perfectly with it.  But, if not…

The risk: Consequensces of poor career choices

Making a choice in this age bracket has been “the way of the world” for years and years.   So, who’s to say that it can’t continue on that way?  The thing is, it’s a massive decision that is being made using incomplete uneducated information.

When teens start to become self-aware in the following years and understand that they chose wrong — for whatever reason — they already see themselves as being past the point of no return.  This leads to intense fear and also sadness that can lead quickly into depression.  This depression makes everything harder for them and can create a long-term mental health crisis in otherwise healthy and happy teenagers.

The solution: Abilities & Talent assessment

By offering teens access to understanding their true potential, they can have the power to become self-aware easier and in a healthy way, with tools to help them put that self-awareness to proper use for their future.  This is done through something as refreshingly “simple” as a skill assessment test, as provided by the Youth Development Programme. 

Decision making and solution to career related issues.

Professionally and carefully designed for the best results with young minds, the right assessment test at this prime age will help teens understand where the true abilities and skills lie. This leads them to choose courses and programs that are not only going to be a great match for their interests, but also a great match for their skills.  This blended approach helps them improve their self-confidence and helps them see how fulfilling it is to go after dreams that align with their true potential.

The power of self-awareness at the right time

Students, through proper skill assessment, have the better self-awareness that comes both from seeing their own positive traits and skills listed in front of them, and by pursuing a path that is fulfilling and inspiring. Since there is no regret at their choice after the fact, it starts teens off on a positive cycle that helps keep them those happy and healthy teens that we want to see entering the workforce. 

What it all comes down to is that promoting skill assessment at an early age empowers teens to realize their true potential.

Conclusion: Empowering Teenagers Through talent Assessment

Instead of being limited by indecision, uncertainty, or limitations, it’s one of encouragement, excitement, and potential.  Every parent knows that, with the right drive, kids can achieve things that would otherwise be impossible!

At this stage you might be thinking, our child may have the potential to become a doctor or engineer but we know our situation what we can afford. So ultimately parents will do what they always wanted to do.

We want to emphasize and highlight this point that our analysis result is actually uncovering their true potential, and open their eyes, what they are really capable of, we highlight and aware them about their true self, then it is up to their imagination and their circumstances what they can achieve with the abilities and potential they possess. Regardless of what the circumstances are, with this awareness they will start to observe and seize the right opportunities.

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