Suggestion to my child

Mojisola

tazwhoever said:

My daughter is good at maths, science, etc. I suggested to her to look for a career in health care, etc.

What is she actually interested in as well as being good at?

CocoM2020

Mojisola said:

tazwhoever said:

My daughter is good at maths, science, etc. I suggested to her to look for a career in health care, etc.

What is she actually interested in as well as being good at?

Good point- actually this should be the only thing that matters. Don’t forget her GCSE results may lead her to different choices later on. It’s not uncommon. 

tazwhoever

AskAsk said:

tazwhoever said:

AskAsk said:

still quite young to think about a career in my opinion.
i am surprised to hear that health care professionals are unable to gain employment.  where did you read that from?

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=124041
I realise the article is 15 years old, but I guess it still applies...

15 years is a life time! 

doctors, nurses, anyone who works in a hospital, dentists are in great demand.  getting a place in medical school or dentistry school is very competitive and difficult so demand for those professionals are always going to be high.

i have never met an unemployed doctor or dentist 
nurses are also in great demand, but that is because no one wants to go into that profession as it is low pay and hard work.

The article shows unemployed doctors. 
To be honest I know two individuals, who have passed their MBBS, worked in their first few years at hospitals and now no longer working in the medical field. The is huge demand for people moving up the field. One of them has more than one degree. Too high the demand for jobs and hundreds individuals chasing them. 

gettingtheresometime

Must admit I took yr 11 to be the school year so the child would be 15 years of age.

cant imagine anything worse being 'directed' into a career.

Barny1979

Read Adam Kay's book This is going to hurt.

CocoM2020

That’s the 2nd recommendation for that book I have had in less than a week. Deffo going to buy and read. 

Socajam

At 15, it won't hurt to start doing research and reading on career related to Maths and Science
Remember the world is a smaller place now, competition comes from those countries that were not in the mix when you and I were at school.
Your child wants to be ready to compete with the best out there and to get in to a good school - hard work never pays off in the long run.
What about an engineering degree?
I would also suggest that if she could or you have the funds to learn another language that would be another notch on her belt.

t0rt0ise

A good health care career is radiography. Always needed in MRI and CT and pay is better than nursing at the lower level and easier to get up the bands. And science definitely needed.

Savvy_Sue

I really wouldn't push a child into anything health-related unless they had a passion for it. Maths and Science opens doors in many directions. DS1 studied Computer Science and is now an independent itinerant computer game developer (not a career path your average careers teacher will suggest). DS2 studied Maths and has been programming computers ever since, initially in the field of entertainment and now in the field of commercial property management. DS3 studied Chemistry, got a PhD and is now on a graduate training scheme with a major international communications company. 

Other young scientists I have known are similarly diverse: chemistry led to accountancy via teaching assistant; physics to the civil service via the Royal Mail; other sciences to a packaging company; computer science to quality services manager in an IT company ("It turns out I'm very good at telling people what they've done wrong, and how to fix it.")

getmore4less

The core knowledge needed is maths, chemistry, physics if you want to understand how stuff works.
I never got on with chemistry but needed it when dealing with materials, in modern age a lot of bio science and medicine is chemistry.

A surprising number of jobs also benefit from good  computer skill beyond the basics,  understanding programming allows you to develop tools,  many jobs where data analysis is needed being able to do this yourself can be essential.

For languages Spanish first then consider Mandarin.