Do you have a teenager who just doesn’t have a clue about his or her career direction? Maybe they change their minds constantly about what to do when they leave school. And maybe it really bothers your teenager and worries you that they don’t know their career direction. Well I’m just reading Heather Carpenter’s book “The Career Maze”. This is a fantastic resource for parents to support them in assisting teenagers to choose a career path. By the way Heather is well-known within NZ career and business circles. She has a Ph.D in career management and, lectures in this area and creates career tools and programmes for student and community use.
This book assists parents in a practical way on the do’s and don’ts of what to do with teenagers troubled over their first career step out of school. Or a teen who has left school who is studying or working and still not sure of their direction. In the book Heather tells us that research shows that it is parents who are the primary influence on their children’s career decisions. So if that is true parents really do need to be clued up on how to have conversations and interactions with their teens about potential careers. This book provides parents with the steps and skills to facilitate this. However this book is so much more. It provides wonderful information not just on how to deal with teen career choices but the information given could easily be used on how to provide an environment for children that will facilitate them to become self-aware, self loving and fulfilled beings. For instance Heather describes the behaviours that pro-active families exhibit. Areas such as sociability, cohesion, expressiveness, conflict management, family and so on. A truly wonderful resource that every parent should read.
Here is the link to Heather Carpenter’s book The Career Maze
