Designing the Career Development of Students based on Professionals' Opinion

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1 Hezarjerib St. Isfahan, Iran

2 Department of counseling, Faculty of education and psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

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Aim: This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the components of career development of secondary school students based on the opinion of experts and discovering the strategies, causal, intervening, background conditions and consequences of career growth. Method: The current research is applied and qualitative type of grounded theory. The community of this research included all career counseling specialists and teachers in Tehran and Isfahan in the academic year of 2022-2023. Sampling was purposeful of theoretical type and continued until the limit of theoretical saturation and finally selection of 15 experts. The participants were subjected to semi-structured interviews. In order to analyze the data, thematic analysis method was used. Results: Data analysis led to the production of 15 main themes, including the growth components of students' career paths, individual changes, community changes, short-term concerns, long-term concerns, background factors. Factors (family, education and macro systems), causal factors (individual factors and society factors), intervening factors (family and school dysfunction), strategies (issue-oriented and emotion-oriented) and Results (individual growth and community growth) 41 core codes and 336 codes were opened. Conclusion: The results of the research showed that the development of the students' career path requires the multi-faceted attention of the family, the individual, the society and the educational institution, and each of these institutions alone cannot determine the path of career development. In fact, the society observes the greatest impact of the development career, because students are considered as the future builders of the society.

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Career and Organizational Counseling
Volume 15, Issue 4
February 2024
Pages 137-174

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