Manisa province, investigation of vocational orientation activities of secondary education students

The importance of guiding activities is increasing especially vocational guidances is going up. The main problem of the research is to what extent is vocational guidance in our country, to what extent the vocational guidance activations affect the students when choosing occupation and whether this situation differ in general Secondary Schools. Choosing a job and heading for it are something which can?t be taken at once but come into being through life with behavioral patterns. This process divides in some periods. During adolescense, concers, abilities and values of choosing occupation are important factors realistic thoughts come into being in this important period. Because of the emphasis of adolescence in period of choosing an occupation, the application of research is seen to be effective to be applied on high school students. The main objective of the research is to show whether the vocational guidance activities affect students deciding realistically in choosing occupation or not. In this research, scanny literature is done before the questionnaire. The duties of guidance?s services, guidance teacher related with vocational guidance directors and teachers are inventigated. The subjects which students need to help a bout vocational guidance are determined and the questionnaire is prepared. The academic year 2012-2013 in the province of Manisa, a total of 1000 students in the classical high school and vocational orientation inventory was applied. Application study used SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) software. Study results are interpreted in the tables. Key Words: Vocational Guidance, Careers Guidance, Orientation, Secondary Schools.