Investigating the Factors Affecting Academic Guidance in the New Iranian Education System (original) (raw)

2018, 2th international conference on New Research Achievements in the Humanities and Social and Cultural Studies, Karaj, Iran

Deciding on choosing on a field of study and a career is one of the most important and crucial issues in every person's life. Today, the complexity and transformation of the world of work, the increasing speed of technology growth, the growing demand for entry into some jobs and the need to acquire knowledge and skills due to individual differences has upset the balance of education and the labor market and it has created problems in how to direct talent, career guidance and professional decision making. Various factors can be involved in choosing educational fields and ultimately job selection that the most important challenge when choosing a field of students is to consider all the cases. Because these cases must include internal factors (such as personal and family factors, etc.) and on the other hand external factors (such as educational indicators and field-related characteristics, etc.). In this research, first, a review of the theoretical foundations of research in relation to the concept of academic guidance has been done, then, the effective criteria and variables in academic (educational) guidance were identified through library studies as well as interviews with experts. Finally, the factors influencing the choice of field are introduced. Given that in recent years the focus has been more on students' average and grades, identifying these factors and examining them before choosing a field can help students in academic-career guidance.