Potřeba kariérových informací u žáků absolventských ročníků odborně profilovaných středních škol
The Need for Career Information in Graduate Students of Technically and Vocationally Profiled Upper Secondary Schools

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to answer the question of what information is important for graduate students of secondary technical schools and secondary vocational schools in their career decision-making. A sub-objective was to determine whether there are differences between the information needs of students based on their gender, educational aspirations, manner of graduating from the secondary school, and experience with unemployment in the family. The instrument of data collection was a non-standardized questionnaire. The questionnaire survey was carried out in 2011. The questionnaire was completed by 442 students of secondary technical schools and secondary vocational schools. It was found that the most useful information for students in their career decision-making would be that about the job opportunities for graduates of individual fields of studies, the content of studies, the intensity of studies; the content of professions (occupations), the income in the occupations and the requirements of the professions. Moreover, differences between the information needs of boys and girls, and students studying fields of studies leading to a school leaving examination and fields of studies leading to a vocational certificate were proven. Differences in the needs for career information in students who have experienced unemployment in the family and those who have not were not proven.

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