Where do we go from here? A workshop about career and college choices.

Abstract

A graduate students final thesis project was presented. The inspirations of this researcher to create a workshop that would help parents and students work together to make decisions about their future and help to increase their awareness of career and college choices was explored and defined. The focus on Junior's in high school and their parents was explained and presented through topics such as the effects of career choice, career stages, transition periods in high school and beyond, support systems and the decision making process. The sample size for this research was n= 3 for the parents and n=4 for the students. The thesis presented was gathered through journals, books and individual research.