Mass media influence on high school graduates choice of professional domain

Abstract

In the following article we will discuss the subject of media influence on career decisions and the choice of a professional route, by adolescents, after completion of high school studies. The hypothesis underlying this work and subsequently, of a research, is that young people are much more influenced in choosing a particular professional field, promoted by in Media, respectively, a career in avant-garde fields (e.g. "vlogging", "blogging"), compared to young people a decade or two ago, whose values, expectations, skills and skills for certain professional fields did not make a discordant note with those of their parents, mentor teachers or other role models that they had learned and followed. Today, young high school graduates, vocational or theoretically, have changed their values and expectations about their future career, or work, the profession they will actually perform, under the growing influence of the free movement of information in the virtual environment, the Internet; Are focus on achieving the immediate notoriety to which they aspire by following a media-promoted career. As a result of the need to be paid more and more than the hours of work the psycho-physical effort involved in a particular activity, these young graduates will seek professions, future work through social networks, in classical journalistic publications or in the in television broadcasts, career fairs or information on new professions, at the fashion", promoted multi-Media.All these societal changes involving new professions and occupations will have a major impact on their decision to access a particular profession, area of activity, not taking into account, in the end, cases of personal values, skills and abilities they have for those professional fields for which long-term training is no longer appropriate!