Talent exists everywhere. Opportunity does not.
Career awareness and guidance can help students in underserved environments see pathways beyond the opportunities immediately visible around them. The objective is to widen informed choice and access.
The short answer
A student can only aim at what they have heard of. In a school where nobody in living memory has entered a particular profession, that profession does not exist as an option, whatever the ability in the room. Career awareness work in these settings is not motivational. It is informational: here is what exists, here is the route into it, and here is somebody who took that route from where you are sitting.
What people ask about this
What is delivered — information or motivation?
Information about routes, not motivation about attitude.
Where does it happen, and in which language?
Delivered in the school, in the language the school teaches in.
Who delivers it?
Practitioners who began in comparable circumstances, where possible.
