The Need to Understand the World of Professions and Make Professional Decisions

This article emphasizes the importance of understanding the world of professions for members of any society, especially students in different school stages. This is important to develop their professional awareness from kindergarten to post-basic education in the university stages. This progressive development of students' professional awareness leads them to make the appropriate professional decisions in life according to specific and clear standards, principles, controls and appropriate educational methods. The article addresses essential points that can be referred to as guidelines in understanding the world of occupations, preserving the student’s personality in the future, and achieving satisfaction with himself, his profession and economic and social level. The most important of these points are vocational guidance and its relationship to vocational education, professional self-concept, steps in professional decision-making, factors affecting professional decision making and general instructions for appropriate professional decision-making.