Have you tried / considered tracking career plan changes, and if so, do you have any tentative results you could share? (If not, what’s your reasoning for not focusing on this more?)
Speaking just for myself here, I think tracking career outcomes for SHIC students is important, but Canadian high schoolers in affluent areas are typically 4-7 years away from being able to start a career, so this may take awhile to track well. I also don’t expect high schoolers to have meaningful and stable views on their career since it would be so early in their life.
Right, when I wrote “career plan changes” I mostly meant that they end up studying a subject different from their previous best guess (if they had one) at least partly for EA reasons. (Or at a different university, e.g. a top school.)
I really don’t think doing your undergrad at a “top school” is as important in Canada as it is in the US or UK, and I’m not sure it’s worth the money for a Canadian undergrad to study out of the country.
Great point, and we should have mentioned more about our intention to track things like career or career path changes as a result of the program. We don’t currently have data on this because our audience are generally too young to show reliable signs of moving toward an effective career, but part of what we hope to accomplish with extended engagement (detailed in the Plans for Autumn 2018 section above) is to follow high-potential participants more closely so we can monitor changes like that.
We have had several participants state their intentions of taking actions like this to make a bigger impact, but it is uncertain as to whether they will follow through.
Have you tried / considered tracking career plan changes, and if so, do you have any tentative results you could share? (If not, what’s your reasoning for not focusing on this more?)
Speaking just for myself here, I think tracking career outcomes for SHIC students is important, but Canadian high schoolers in affluent areas are typically 4-7 years away from being able to start a career, so this may take awhile to track well. I also don’t expect high schoolers to have meaningful and stable views on their career since it would be so early in their life.
Right, when I wrote “career plan changes” I mostly meant that they end up studying a subject different from their previous best guess (if they had one) at least partly for EA reasons. (Or at a different university, e.g. a top school.)
I really don’t think doing your undergrad at a “top school” is as important in Canada as it is in the US or UK, and I’m not sure it’s worth the money for a Canadian undergrad to study out of the country.
Great point, and we should have mentioned more about our intention to track things like career or career path changes as a result of the program. We don’t currently have data on this because our audience are generally too young to show reliable signs of moving toward an effective career, but part of what we hope to accomplish with extended engagement (detailed in the Plans for Autumn 2018 section above) is to follow high-potential participants more closely so we can monitor changes like that.
We have had several participants state their intentions of taking actions like this to make a bigger impact, but it is uncertain as to whether they will follow through.
Thanks, makes sense! Would be great to see such data in the future, though I agree it seems hard to track.