Poland Szkoła podstawowa, klasa VII Career guidance
Chapters: 4
1. Knowing your own resources
Self-knowledge for career planning
- Self-Assessment: Getting to Know Your Own Resources – Self-assessment means looking at yourself honestly to know your interests, abilities, values, health and habits. You rate each area, spot strengths and growth areas, compare your view with feedback from others, and keep proof in a portfolio. It helps you choose subjects and careers, and plan how to improve.
2. World of work and labour market
Researching jobs · Work, values and support
- Career Planning: From Knowing Yourself to Your First Job – Career planning has five steps. 1) Know yourself: interests, skills and values. 2) Explore career families and find out the work, study needed, pay and demand. 3) Plan a pathway with SMART goals and a plan B. 4) Search for jobs with a CV, cover letter, digital portfolio and interview practice. 5) Make the move from school to work and keep learning, because careers change over a lifetime.
- The Labour Market – The labour market is where workers sell their time and skills and employers buy them. Firms demand labour because people buy their products (derived demand). Workers supply labour, and more people offer work at higher wages. The wage settles where demand meets supply. A minimum wage above that level can raise pay but may cut jobs. Trade unions, a single big employer (monopsony), skills, discrimination and new technology all change wages and jobs.
3. Education options and lifelong learning
Choosing a secondary school
- Lifelong Learning: Learning at Every Age – Lifelong learning means continuing to learn throughout life, not only at school. It includes formal learning (school, college), non-formal learning (organised courses outside school) and informal learning (everyday experience). Because jobs and technology change fast, people need to update skills to adapt and build a sustainable career. After school there are many pathways — academic, vocational, apprenticeship, work plus study — and qualifications can be stacked over time. A learning society gives everyone chances to learn, and each person can make a simple learning plan.
4. Planning and decisions
Educational and career plan
- Career Planning: From Knowing Yourself to Your First Job – Career planning has five steps. 1) Know yourself: interests, skills and values. 2) Explore career families and find out the work, study needed, pay and demand. 3) Plan a pathway with SMART goals and a plan B. 4) Search for jobs with a CV, cover letter, digital portfolio and interview practice. 5) Make the move from school to work and keep learning, because careers change over a lifetime.