Career Certainty
This percentage of students across OECD countries in 2022 can be classified as “career uncertain,” meaning they do not have a clear occupational expectation.
What is 39%?
In 2022, this percentage of students who expressed job expectations think they will become “professionals”
What is 58%?
Wanting a job that needs college but not planning college is called what?
What is misaligned?
By age 15, about ___% of students had visited a workplace or done job shadowing.
What is 45%
Who does less job activities: poor or rich students?
What is poor?
Students who are uncertain about their careers tend to have this sort of employment outcomes compared to peers who have clearer plans
What are poorer employment outcomes?
Job expectations are highly concentrated: about ___% of girls, and ___% of boys expect to work in one of the ten most popular occupations for their gender.
What are 50% of girls and 44% of boys?
About 1 in how many students are misaligned?
What is 5?
Percent of students who had completed an internship (short work placement) by age 15.
What is 35%?
True or False: Gender influences career development activity participation, with girls less likely than boys to engage in some forms.
What is True?
Since 2018, student uncertainty about future careers has done this.
What is “increased substantially”?
Since 2000, the share of students wanting professional careers has done this trend
What is “increased steadily”?
Who is more likely to be misaligned: poor or rich students?
What is poor?
Which three kinds of experiences (or activities) are strongly linked with better job success later (around age 25).
What are job fairs, job shadowing, and internships?
Which group may do more internships: poor or rich students?
What is poor?
A student with clearer career plans is more likely to do this than one without
What is “end up working in that profession”?
In some countries with strong vocational education systems, expectations to become professionals are (higher / lower) compared to those with less strong systems.
What is “lower”?
Do rich low-scoring students or poor high-scoring students expect college more?
What is rich low-scoring?
This activity, often done at school or outside, is completed by ~55% of students by age 15.
What is speaking to career advisor?
Do poor students feel school helps them for work more or less?
What is less?
Among students who perform lowest on PISA academic assessments, their rate of career uncertainty is ___ compared to top performers.
What is higher / greater?
Are high-performing poor kids less likely to say they’ll go to college than rich kids?
What is yes?
Are high-performing poor kids less likely to say they’ll go to college than rich kids?
What is yes?
Do low-scoring students have more or less job uncertainty?
What is more?
A form of guidance or career development that disadvantaged students might actually engage in more than advantaged ones, though this is an exception.
What is internships?