| (NAPSA)}—If the young people you know are like most, theyleave the decision of what to do after high school, until after they actually leave school. What’s more, aceording to a recent survey, only 10 percent of high school students get any eareer guidance at school. More han half could think of no one at sehool who belped them with career exploration. Many teens’ areer decisions are influenced by the media or by their peers with little thought of what they might personally be interested in or motivated to do. If they are college bound, they may simply keep changing majors until they “find something theylike.” Fortunately, there are steps parents, teachers and others can take to help. For one thing, you can lock into The Career Liftoff Personal Career Exploration Guide, mclading the Career Liftoff Interest Inventory. It’s a career exploration program that helps students discover their interests. Tt includes exercises that can pro- vide relevant information, heipful techniques, and constructive feedback. Then, it shows how to take that information to the marketplace. The program even includes advice on “how to research occupations and careers on the Inter- net,” “how to write resumes,” and “howto mterview.” Aceording to the propram’s Find a job you love and you'll never work @ day in your life, experts advise parents to tell students. authors, Jim Lewis and Gary Anderson, for students to identify their interests and connect them to a college major or a career, they need an interest inventory. That is, a way to discover what the stu- dent wants to do to have a satisfying career and life. Work may change, Lewis and Anderson believe, but an individual’s inter- ests remaintruefor a lifetime. Once the direction of interest is set, the student can go about get- ting information about colleges, career options, salaries, training andso forth. You can learn more online at www.careerliftofficom.
