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The future is hard to plan for, especially if you do not think about making good career choices. Many students moving to high school make effective choices when planning their future. Globes and Mail's articles state that about 36% of Canadians realize that they have made a poor career choice, due to poor career course choices in high school. According to the article, 36% of the students in high school don’t have an idea for their future or weren't taught to think about it in elementary. When transitioning into high school, students wouldn’t know what to choose and what courses will help them and which won't. With more knowledge these confusions can be overthrown. On the other hand, if there was an earlier start to teaching career choice, then …show more content…

Although there is a huge educational aspect to career education schools should also teach the non-academic aspect of it. There are many transferable skills and personalities that soar high above others but school should teach how the different personalities contribute to the different jobs. According to (Harrison 2014) 48% of employees are ready to switch jobs due to their current job not needing their personality or transferable skills. When thought that different personalities fit into different jobs or positions students will be encouraged to learn a variety of different transferable skills and also learn to work in various place with its suitable personalities. According to Leadership IQ’s Global Talent Management Survey (Greensburg 2014) 81% of new hires fail to adapt to the jobs requirement in personality and transferable skills. The research proved that 15% of the new hires fail do to the lack of adaptable personalities only because the hires do not know how to adapt with not only the jobs recruitment but also other employees personalities. All in all good transferable skills and adaptable personalities can lead to a successful employees and can allow the employee to perform different jobs or different positions in their jobs. In the end in order to create successful adaptable employees school should teach what these personalities can do in different jobs at an early grade to impact the student's way of thinking to learn new skills and adapt to their

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