Carrier guidance organisation process system
Abstract : Web Based Career Guidance is very important to our Educational System. We have an existing Manual Career Guidance System with human counselors in charge, but this system is plagued with the following problems: few number of human counselors, unavailability of a counselor in a good number of schools, few number of counselors attending to students during school hours and the office of a counselor in schools are so unpopular that students hardly meet them for career counseling. We have been able to design an Online Career Guidance Information System targeting students in pre tertiary institutions in Nigeria to solve the afore- mentioned problems. The Online Web Based Career Guidance system was designed and implemented using data collected from interviewing human counselors and surveys. The following scripting languages were employed: PHP, MySQL, HTML, Java Script and CSS. The system was implemented and tested with 50 students and 76% of them found the career system very useful.
? To explore the problems encountered by the existing manual system.
? To design a web based career guidance system that will improve upon the existing manual/ human career guide.
? This means the system is to be used in conjunction with the already existing manual counseling program.
? The application seeks to complement the existing manual system and can even be used as a tool for counselors.
? The system does not intend to replace totally the existing manual system, but serve those who do not have access to the manual system and to serve as a complementary tool for the manual system .
? Guidance is a term sometimes used broadly to refer to advising or helping an individual with any kind of educational, vocational or personal problem.
? They intend to reveal a student?s feeling, problem, attitudes, likes and dislikes in which also determines what area of work a student will enjoy the most.
? The general idea among students is that the guidance and counselor is a middle aged man or woman who is perceived to be „old school? thus can only offer suggestions or solutions in like manner.
? The web system being designed in this paper to solve aforementioned problems falls roughly under Expert system.
• The proposed system will have a fully dynamic and functional database.
• The development of career guidance and counseling system lies on one of the roots of expert system which is also one of the major roots in expert systems called „cognitive science? i.e. the area of human information processing.
• It evidently can no longer serve the purpose for which it was built.
• Counselors likewise can benefit from the information system as it can serve as a tool for them to use in making more accurate judgment.
• Some counselors are not committed or diligent and can sometimes be unapproachable.
? The unpopularity and unawareness of the guidance and counseling department in our secondary schools makes the system under used, thereby making it inefficient.
? A web based career guidance system promises to be available and accessible by students at any time, any day and at their convenience (just a click away).
? This information system can serve as a complimentary tool for real life counselors.
? In career guidance, counseling is used as one of the interventional strategies.
? The group methods are used primarily to convey information as in orientation to a new school, in occupation classes, or in career conferences.
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