| dc.description.abstract | A study, done as part of this research, and detailed later in the report, concluded that there
is a mismatch between the careers most high school graduates choose and the ones of
their natural interest.
Appearing in a report later in the paper, are results of a separate study that concluded that
one of the main reasons why people are later dissatisfied in their vocations is uninformed
choice of vocation immediately after school. Interviews with Ministry of Education
(Kenya) officials and career guidance teachers confirmed that students are simply given
the careers booklet with university courses, their prerequisite subjects and cut-off points,
instead of career guidance and counseling. This is due to limited skilled human and time
resources. This problem may be minimized by the use of an Expert System that would
store the specialized knowledge of the career counselors and dispense this knowledge in
under thirty minutes to a high school graduate.
There is, clearly lack of a quality and cost-effective Career Guidance Model. This report
presents results and analysis of the studies mentioned above, the process of identifying
desirable activities in the career guidance process and the integration of those activities
into a career guidance model using Expert Sy.S):""e"~fos,r easy and quick querying by a
high school graduate. Based on the proposed model •and prototype, an application may be
constructed to provide instantaneous career guidance to high school graduates. | en |
