Abstract:

Starting military career, you must be convinced about career choices, because the career path is long and challenging. Often young soldiers' vision of a military career does not match with reality, also confidence about their desires for the future career are unclear. They are motivated, but not confident about the right career choices. This leads to dissatisfaction and newly recruited soldier’s leave service, which respectively cause damage to the organization. That is why there must be new teaching and learning methods integrated into basic training programme that can help young soldiers not to disappear in the jungle of the new professional challenge and do not leave the service. With additional methods is meant educational supervision. The influence of supervision on the new soldier’s understanding about career is convincing. Incorporating educational supervision into the basic training course, organization will get persuasive, motivated and well-informed soldiers who will know how their careers can develop and what their career goals are. Today, we are facing many technological and economic changes, which have changed the nature of careers and the way individuals shape and pursue their careers. Career is one of the key elements that determine a person's quality of life. A successful career provides an opportunity to realize an individual's abilities and interests in personal, professional, and social terms. Young soldiers come to training with their expectations and intentions, which often do not match the real situation or opportunities. Soldiers often lack information about the variety of opportunities and the process by which these opportunities can be used. New recruits should be provided with more information about organizational opportunities, career development and requirements, as well as mentors who could supervise young soldiers and help them find their career path. When faced with the real situation in the National Armed Forces, young soldiers are often afraid or realize that they have not reached the right place, or that their career opportunities are simply different than they had thought. In this situation, the loser is both the young soldier, who is disappointed and wasted time and emotional capacity in training, and the organization, which has invested time and other resources in training and maintaining soldiers. It is in the interests of the National Armed Forces to attract new soldiers who would be confident in their career choice and would move up the career ladder with clear goals, becoming qualified specialists who are able to defend their country. The authors point out that educational supervision clearly has a significant impact on young soldiers' understanding of their careers, which could accordingly help respondents to formulate their career goals, thus understanding the relevant steps to be taken to move up the career ladder. This is especially important for development of military organisation and its employment issues. Understanding career opportunities in the National Armed Forces, respondents come to a satisfaction with their current career, which could also be defined as satisfaction with the chosen organization for career development (considering the new age of the soldiers). Supervision also has a positive effect on the level of knowledge of the respondents, which the authors associate with the increase of the quality of understanding and workplace training/learning process.

Keywords:

Educational supervision, career, training methods, education.