American teenagers still mean business

For the fourth consecutive year, cited a "businessman", as the choice of the most popular careers for young Americans.
That one of the main results of the annual survey of teenagers on topics such as career expectations and opinions about the world of business. Study for the year 2006, a new survey of success in all parts of the world, the Mediterranean and its children functions, also revealed that, for the first time in the history of seven years of study, and your expectations wages of young women on a par with those of young men.

Since first being measured in the 2003 survey, salary expectations for most jobs stated that the expected benefits exceed pre-teen girls. However, in the edition of this year, and he separated the highest earnings expectations for careers often cited, such as entertainment, law and medicine, are equally distributed between the two sexes.

Over the last four years, remained top career selections -10 roughly constant. "Business" was the most popular choice of profession together for the past four years has conducted the survey, and this year was chosen by 8.7 percent.

The "teacher", select the second highest, which was chosen by 7 percent, passing the "doctor", a choice consistent first or second in previous years, which came in third with 6.2 per percent, tied with "computer science."

Another difference in the responses to this year is that the teenager seems to be drawn to professions that require more education, and this year no longer has confidence in the men spend their ideal access to jobs.

The study showed that more than three quarters of those surveyed young women -78.2 percent said they "definitely" or "sure" they will get their ideal job, compared to just over 65 percent of male adolescents.

Shading is one of the most important ways are adolescents of their professional expectations. Again this year, the judge Global Career graze in the shadow initiative a year when the adventure seeker in the workplace for a day, which was hosted by adult mentors who teach them about "the world of work."

JA Worldwide is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating young people about the economy and business and entrepreneurship. Today, up nearly four million students in the United States, in addition to around the world more than three million students.