Career education has four broad objectives:

i) Self awareness
Help students to understand their own abilities, interests, aptitudes, personalities and values. What kinds of people do they want to become?

ii) Opportunity awareness
Help students to understand the society they are living in. How is it structured? What kinds of opportunities are there? What are the demands?. What kinds of roles are there and how can fulfillment be achieved?

iii) Decision making
Help students acquire the skills of decision-making, which will help pupils to relate themselves to the world of opportunities. This includes exploring different decision-making styles and learning how to generate alternatives, how to collect and process information, and how to balance the desirability of particular options against the probability of achieving them.