Blog 7

During this week I started to read the articles I found for my project with my group. My group is doing a mock career workshop for high school students.   I came across a very interesting article as I was searching for the needs of High School students in regards to their career development.  At first, I thought this was going to be a rather difficult experience and search but it ended up becoming very informational.  The article is by Aysenur Buyukgoze -Kavas and it is titled "Predicting Career Adaptability From Positive Psychological Traits."  

In this article they studied 415 students at the undergraduate level.  Of that population 185 were male students and 230 female students.  This study was not conducted in the United States but was held in Turkey.  They used different adaptability scales and resilience scales that registered their results and findings. Buyukgoze-Kavas found that there was a strong correlation between their adaptability in careers.  He concluded that students who are more resilient are more adaptable to their career and that counselors should incorporate in their career development training resilient techniques and strategies.

I found this to be really interesting because coming up with needs that high school students need on my own was very simple.  However, I did not think of resilience as a factor.  Students that can quickly recover from work difficulties will have a better outlook on things.  They will not be limited and restrained but have the ability to work through problems.  Let’s face it; life if full of difficulties and having that ability to become resilient will help with stress.  As a future school counselor, it will be an interesting job to find strategies to help these students find techniques to become resilience in not only their jobs and careers but in their personal lives.  Not many people stay at one job for the rest of their life and giving these students the ability to bounce and stay strong from job to job will help them in their success. 

Buyukgoze-Kavas, A. (2016). Predicting Career Adaptability From Positive Psychological Traits. The Career Development Quarterly, 64(2), 114-125. doi:10.1002/cdq.12045