FREE WEBINAR: WHAT INFLUENCES HIGH SCHOOL CAREER DECISION-MAKING: NEW EVIDENCE

Date: Monday, November 23, 2020, 12 pm - 1 pm ET (check your time zone)

Presenters: Reuben Ford and Audrey Appiah, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC)

Cost: Free

This free webinar offers you the opportunity to further key learnings based on the new research done by SRDC and funded by CERIC on The Role of Career Education on Students’ Education Choices and Postsecondary Outcomes. The webinar will be led by members of the research project team.

While Canada is an international leader on many indicators of K-12 education performance and has among the highest rates of post-secondary education attainment of all OECD countries, it still has a significant proportion of youth who leave the formal education system ill-equipped for their transition to the world of work.

The webinar will share key learnings from research based on 10 years of tracking data on 7,000 high school students’ lives to answer questions about when, where and how youth initiate and craft their career aspirations. We will discuss and reflect on a few important questions, such as: What can we do to ensure students from lower-income families leave high school having engaged with the question of who they want to become? Who influences their career aspirations most over time? And what approaches help youth align post-secondary program choices with their occupational outcomes?