Interesting events in the library for career guidance

Everyone at a certain moment should decide on the choice of profession. This process is an extremely responsible step on which the success of the whole future life depends. It's about status in society, material prosperity and personal satisfaction. Successfully to make this step is one of the main social tasks of the youth.

Is it easy for the young?

For most of the youth, the desire to acquire a reliable profession is among the undoubted priorities. But it is precisely such a specific category of the population, as young people, that have maximum social insecurity due to age peculiarities, namely low skill, lack of professional experience and the presence of purely psychological problems with self-determination.

In our difficult times, the younger generation is even more at risk of remaining without a decent profession or simply not finding a decent job. That is why all professionals who work with young people are required to show a professional approach in the career guidance of youth.

It also concerns librarians. Armed with knowledge, a specialist from the height of his experience will push young men and women to the right choice and reduce the risk of failure. Actual information on the topic of career guidance is urgently needed by young people and teenagers. After all, the world of professions is so volatile and varied! Almost every year we hear about the emergence of new specialties and entire industries.

Who will help?

Increasingly, specialists are required to meet the requirements associated with a particular style of thinking and ability to delve into innovation, master modern labor technologies. In this regard, the role of the librarian as a professional counselor is difficult to overestimate. After all, he has a lot of opportunities to draw the young reader's attention to the immense information resources available to the library.

The librarian can help the teenager decide professionally due to the mass of scientific reference, as well as popular literature on the topic of various activities. It is the activities carried out in vocational guidance in the library that can provide such relevant information about the relevance of a particular specialty in the labor market, the conditions of admission and those educational institutions where it is possible to acquire knowledge in the chosen direction.

What is help?

Let's consider, in what basic directions the library can and should conduct the vocational guidance activity. The work plan of a specialist in this field should include three main areas, namely: preparing young readers for the right professional choice, creating all the necessary conditions for them to obtain comprehensive information on available specialties, and also focusing on the choice of a specific option.

Each of the three directions implies the solution of very specific pedagogical tasks.

Preparing the reader for the choice of profession, librarians are obliged to think about ways of forming interest in such a problem as professional self-determination. Another goal of this work item is to teach the young generation the rules by which to choose their future activities.

In the second direction - the creation of suitable conditions for obtaining relevant information - the librarian should concentrate his efforts on helping young people to realize their own interest in a certain field of activity.

Determine finally

The next step is to create a more stable interest in the chosen type of work on the basis of the emerging social and personal position. That is, the future entrant should determine his values and understand the motive of his own choice.

The third of the items of the plan is the most responsible, since it is based on individual work with those of high school students who have practically decided on the choice. In this case, the task of the event for the vocational guidance of youth in the library is to form a more serious idea of the chosen field of activity.

As a result of such a library work, one can name the interest shown by students to the problem of choice, the mastering of their basic rules, the manifestation of a sufficiently high level of self-awareness, including responsibility for one's own decision.

The goal is to identify the social motives for choosing and form a view of this or that kind of activity. And also knowledge of the specifics of the conditions for obtaining a specialty and further work activity, prospects and material conditions. Indeed, in connection with the current situation in the labor market, there is often a serious discrepancy between the ideal representation of entrants about future work for real life conditions.

What should a librarian do?

To realize the tasks set, the library develops a model for vocational guidance work. Its essence lies in an integrated approach to the issue of the working orientation of young people, the use of a large number of specialized literature, a variety of methods and forms of propaganda.

Work with readers includes, in addition, the involvement of other organizations and specialists.

Organizational form of the event in the library for career guidance can be mass, group (in the form of circles of permanent or changing composition), and also individual. According to the methods of impact, they can all be divided into verbal (verbal) - in the form of reports, lectures, debates, conferences of readers, meetings, conversations, etc.; Practical - in the form of excursions, trainings, group lessons, competitions and campaigns; As well as visual - in the form of book and creative exhibitions, thematic stands, etc.

All forms should be used in a complex, so they will complement each other.

Activities in the library for career guidance can be as follows:

• Enlightenment in verbal (or verbal) form is often given in the form of organizing a club of professional acquaintances, uniting young men and women to expand their horizons and develop interest in specialties.
• In this club, graduates are given the opportunity to meet with representatives of a wide range of labor, both large and rare, and get acquainted with the specifics of their activities, as well as psychological, economic and even medical nuances in making a choice.

On specific forms of work

Organize activities for vocational guidance in the library for children and adolescents is supposed in the form of a dialogue between schoolchildren and club guests. At sessions it is possible to conduct express diagnostics, vocational guidance games, information about the conditions of admission to a particular educational institution. You can also arrange a dispute on the relevance of a particular profession.

The value of classes in the form of disputes is that they make you think about the choice of even someone who for some reason is not yet ready for it, and in developing skills to take collegial decisions on a variety of issues.

Disputes can be arranged on the following topics: "My actions to achieve the goal", "What is the prestige of the profession?", "Careerism is good or bad?", "Unemployment - a social impasse or your new chance?", "Do you achieve goals at any cost ? "," How I see myself in 5 years, "and so on.

Scenario: cognitive event on vocational guidance in the library

When preparing a dispute plan, an approximate list of questions should be drawn up, namely:

1. Are the concepts of choosing a profession and gaining a vital meaning equal to you?

2. What is more important - the formation of professional skills or the growth of personality?

3. Does the case color a person or person a deal?

4. Do they really say that they get used to any profession? How do you think?

5. What is free choice in the professional sphere?

6. How do they affect the life success of the assessment in the certificate?

7. What information do you need to have in order not to make a mistake in the choice?

Another form of the event in the library for vocational guidance is the publication of an oral journal, which is a pre-prepared speech, each of which is devoted to a specific topic. To interest this idea of schoolchildren, the reports should alternate with viewing slides, videos and speeches of invited professionals.

Each of the issues of such a magazine can be devoted to a specific field of activity, for example, medicine, construction or pedagogy.

Other options

Such a form of the event in the library on vocational guidance, like a conversation, means acquaintance of teenagers with the world of professional activity, reference points in self-determination and situation with educational institutions in the region. When preparing a conversation, a list of issues to be discussed, visual materials and recommended literature should be provided. If the conversation is devoted to a particular type of activity, it is not bad to invite its representative. It is not at all superfluous to speak students who are studying for this or that specialty.

What is a round table? This is the name of the activities for career guidance in the library, meaning a collective conversation on a specific topic. Free exchange of opinions on all the issues discussed can only be for those students who have a good level of preparation. This form of work suits high school students with some experience. The program of each meeting should be drawn up in advance, the approximate questions are worked out.

How to interest readers

Interesting activities for vocational guidance in the library can be organized in the form of evenings-trips. Participants are divided into teams, during the "journey" they exchange impressions, information and suggestions on various topics. Such evenings can hold a whole series. The approximate theme of them is as follows:

1. "Hometown" - participants "wander" through the squares, streets of their city, "visit" famous places.

2. "Our land" - the way lies along the rivers, cities, memorable places of your country.

3. "Circumnavigation" includes other countries and capitals.

4. "Awesome world" - the theme of nature, animals, plants, etc., rises.

5. "The world of professions."

6. "Flight on a time machine".

The name of activities for vocational guidance in the library, conducted in the form of training, can be something like "Evenings of unraveled secrets". Here, schoolchildren, as it were, make "scientific discoveries" and focus their attention on various unresolved problems.

Participants need to pre-prepare. It is most convenient to break them into small groups of no more than 5 people each. And it can be like peers, and children of different ages. Subjects are selected the most diverse, for example, "City of the Future", "History of an ancient subject".

It is best if the answers to the questions raised are not in the form of reviews (that is, summaries of figures and facts) but in the form of discussions involving mass participation.

Preparing such an evening, you should use any available sources, from the Internet to popular science magazines and books. The duration of it should not exceed one and a half hours. If the age of participants is not too large, care should be taken to include in the program of the evening gaming moments.

Serious work is ahead

The next type of event in the library is the vocational guidance - conference. They can be scientific, final and reader. The methodology for conducting them is to determine the topic, notify the participants about the date of the meeting, prepare for the general public of the program.

Preparing for the conference, the participants will have to learn many different sources, work with library catalogs, encyclopedias, bibliographic directories, watch certain films or performances on the topic under discussion. Perhaps, it is necessary, within the framework of preparation, to organize a trip to the museum or a meeting with an interesting person.

Conducting together with the students of the conference, the librarians together with the teachers instill in the students the skills of keeping notes, drawing up plans, highlighting the most important, selecting the citations, correctly arranging the documents. Adolescents learn logical thinking, analysis and generalization skills.

Each of the participants makes up a short plan of their own speech. As necessary, consultations are held in the group or individually. At the end of the preparatory phase, a detailed plan of the event should be drawn up.

Report

There are, of course, many activities in the library for career guidance. But after each one must be summed up. Participants should be asked such questions as:

- What exactly did you find most useful and interesting in the event?

- What issues are not fully disclosed?

An example of the topic of a scientific conference could be: "In what kind of specialists will our region need after a decade?"

Such an educational form of work, like a press conference, activates youth and adolescents, promotes the development of thinking and the ability to conduct a discussion, and use information from a variety of sources. This is an effective method of school self-education.

When preparing a press conference, creative or initiative groups should be created from the participants. Each of them receives a specific task, for example, preparing a speech on the topic, preparing a visual aid, compiling a crossword puzzle, selecting entertaining facts and so on.

From each group is chosen the main representative, who will have to speak on behalf of all. At the same time, a book exhibition or other information stand is being designed . The form of holding a press conference involves listening to pre-prepared reports with subsequent answers to questions and summarizing.

Each of the proposed topics should be considered from opposite positions. As a theme of the press conference, you can take, for example, this: "Work and health." And to discuss from different points of view.

For those who are younger

The plan of measures for vocational guidance in the library necessarily includes practical forms of professional education. These include a variety of competitions and games. They can be planned in the form of independent events, for example, the best in the profession, or be included as part of the thematic evening scenario.

Games are among the most active forms of enlightenment. Playing, students try on their professional duties, sometimes seriously carrying out their individual elements. In this case, in the aid of the librarian, there are special methodical manuals describing a variety of vocational guidance games.

The purpose of events such as competition is to identify those students who have the most profound knowledge on a particular topic and have the highest level of professional skills.

The theme of the thematic evening can be a specifically chosen profession or even an entire industry. This form is interesting in that it can include competitions with games, and amateur performances, and musical design.

If there are activities in the children's library for career guidance with the participation of junior students, the following topics are recommended: "All professions are needed, all professions are important", "Who will I be?", "Our grandmothers and mothers" and the like.

The younger the age of children, the more active the forms of carrying out activities should be . Already in secondary school it is recommended to organize excursions for students to enterprises, employment centers and vocational schools. Schoolchildren with their own eyes will be able to see the organization of production, the activities of people in the working environment, to feel the atmosphere of the educational institution. After the event in the library for professional orientation, the excursion will consolidate the information received.

What are they like?

Excursions can be overview, supplemented by small conversations with staff working on each site, or thematic. The latter are conducted by the school according to the developed plan according to the subjects of the subjects of study. The thematic cycle of excursions can be included in the school curriculum in order to comprehensively familiarize students with the organizations and enterprises in the region, as well as the propagation of certain professions.

Among other things, clubs and theme clubs can be organized in the library. Such forms are aimed at solving educational and professional tasks in addition to the educational process. Each club has its own profile and its own program, as well as final tests.

Activities for career guidance in the library for children must include a lot of quizzes, consisting of entertaining questions and answers, puzzles, crosswords or puzzles.

To visual forms of education includes the design of information stands with a list of information about the specialties and educational institutions of the region, the city and district employers, information from the employment center. They can contain descriptions of the most common types of activities, exhibit popular science and reference literature on the world of professions. Stands can be charts or tables that allow you to get acquainted with the essence of certain technological processes or principles of the organization.