Interpretive Clustering in Vocational Orientation as a Tool for Career Planning

The economic growth of the regions and therefore of the labor market generates the
need for better trained human resources to meet the needs of the public and private
organizations that drive the economy of the countries. This need has contributed to the
diversification of increasingly specialized professions and to the exponential emer-
gence of new professional careers and occupations. In the same way, the requirements
for education and training by formal education are greater and demand an occupa-
tional choice according to their skills. The socioeconomic and personal capabilities
that guarantee job success and personal satisfaction, and better yet, that the choice
is in line with the vocation built since childhood in the family. The above mentioned
increases the difficulty for adolescent students to adequately and consciously choose
their professional path; in addition to the psychosocial crisis, they are going through
during the search and construction of their own identity and self-concept through
existential questions that allow them to give meaning to their being and their exis-
tence. It is here where technology can be used, specifically automated learning, which
through techniques such as clustering provides the conjunction of certain variables
that would help the student to measure its scope and obtain a more favorable proposal
for the development of his life in a professional and academic way. As more infor-
mation is collected about themselves and their preferences, algorithms can adjust
recommendations to provide more accurate and personalized guidance. As such,
this research proposes using these technologies to work with counselors to provide
personalized guidance, identify relevant career opportunities, and prepare students
for a successful and rewarding future career. Currently, only talks and interviews with
experts are offered, which allow students to learn about the context of the different
areas in which they can help them select their careers, but they fall short and for many
students they are not very helpful. It is therefore important to