Career Counseling

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Career Counseling

• Traditional and Online Approaches

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Career Counseling Defined

• Vocational/career counseling consists of those
  activities performed or coordinated by
  individuals who have credentials to work with
  other individuals or groups of individuals about
  occupations, life/career, career decision making,
  career planning, career pathing. Or other career
  development related questions or conflicts.
  (NCDA, 1988, p. 3)

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• Rapprochment Career CounselingPersonal
  Counseling

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Career Counseling Process

• Client Goal or Problem Identification
• Establishing a working relationship and defining
  roles
• Developing understanding of the clients
  characteristics and environment
• Lack of cognitive clarity
• Lack of motivation
• Making a diagnosis of the clients problem
• Undecidedness
• Indecisivenss
• Work performance
• Incongruence person/work role
• Poor integration work role/life roles

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• Crites Diagnostic System
• Adjusted in a field with appropriate interests
  and aptitudes seeking assurance
• Maladjusted neither in a field of interest nor
  in one commensurate with aptitudes
• Multipotential interested in many fields for
  which they have the aptitude

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• Unrealistic field of interest not commensurate
  with aptitudes
• Unfulfilled in a field of interest with
  potential higher
• Coerced successful in an occupation but not
  interested

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• Browns Diagnostic Model
• Cognitive clarity
• Informational deficits
• Client motivation
• Suitability of work environment
• Work/life roles
• Health
• Flexibility of significant others

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• Resolution of the Problem
• Making an intervention
• Evaluating the impact of the intervention
• Terminating the intervention if it is successful

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Career Assessment

• 1. Work experience (part/full-time, paid/unpaid
• Last job
• Liked best about
• Disliked most about
• Supervision
• Liked best about
• Disliked most about
• Same procedure with another job

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• 2. Education or training progress and concerns
• General appraisal
• Liked best about school/learning
• Disliked most about school/learning
• Subject preference
• Liked
• Disliked
• Teacher or instructor characteristics (for
  example, closeness, authority)
• Liked
• Disliked
• Classroom or training condition preferences
• Liked
• Disliked
• Repeat for levels or types

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• 3. Recreation
• Leisure-time activities
• Social life (within leisure context)
• Friends (within leisure context)
• Weekends/weekdays, evenings

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Typical Day

• 1. Dependent-independent
• Relies on others
• Insists on someone else making decisions
• 2. Systematic-spontaneous
• Stable routine
• Persistent and attentive

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Strengths and Obstacles

• 1. Three main strengths
• Resources at own disposal
• What do resources do for clients
• 2. Three main obstacles
• Related to strengths
• Related to themes

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Summary

• 1. Agree on life themes
• 2. Use clients own words
• 3. Relate to goal setting

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Career Counseling and Philosophical Issues

• Logical Positivism
• Postmodern

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Developing Your Own Theory

• Human Nature
• Human Development
• Development of Interests and Values
• Indications of Abnormal Behavior
• Life roles/Work roles

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• Relationship in Counseling
• Use of test information
• Assessment of work satisfaction
• Motivating the unmotivated
• Diversity considerations
• Accountability

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The Career Counseling Process

• Establishing and structuring the relationship
• Diagnosing the problem
• Goal setting

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• Intervention
• Gathering occupational information
• Identifying transferable skills
• Multicultural Considerations
• Facilitating Decision Making
• Evaluation

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Six Thinking Hats

• White Looks at only facts about self and career
• Red Relies on intuition follows unjustified
  hunches
• Black Figures how/why things do not work is
  pessimistic and critical
• Yellow Is optimistic figures out why things
  will work
• Blue Is rational

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Career Counseling Online

• Counselors
• Websites
• Last update
• Developer
• Reputable sources cited
• Easy access
• Hyperlinks available

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Assessment Devices Online

• The Career Key
• The Kiersey Temperament Sorter

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Credentialing Career Counselors and Career
Development Specialists

• National Career Development Association (NCDA)
• Master Career Counselor (MCC)
• Master Career Development Professional (MCDP)
• Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF)

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• Resolution of the problem that is identified
• Making an intervention
• Evaluating the impact of the intervention
• Terminating the intervention if it is successful