Career Guidance Counseling This report presents my personal persp

PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY OF CAREER GUIDANCE COUNSELING

I believe that the effective career counselor deals with the client along two dimensions. The first dimension is strictly therapeutic and involves uncovering and remediating psychoemotional obstacles to job seeking, job procuring and job maintaining behaviors. The second dimension concerns helping the client with those concrete and specific behaviors that result in selecting and being hired by a company or industry of the client's choice. Each of these dimensions are discussed here. The discussion, however, is preceded by a brief overview of my overall perspective of career guidance counseling.

Overall Perspective of Career Guidance Counseling

It is my view that the career guidance counselor must pay close attention to both

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This notion is completely erroneous and is an abdication of the responsibility that accompanies counseling. Dimension II: Helping the Client With Concrete and Specific Job Selection and Procurement Behaviors Through the use of the philosophy expressed above and the delineated techniques, the career counselor will bring about change in clients which makes it more likely that they will successfully select and work in the field of their choice. However, the client still needs to learn a number of specific behaviors that result in successful job selection and procurement. In this regard, I believe that this aspect of the career counseling situation can be greatly facilitated by the use of a computer based or on-line job and career referral system. Such systems are becoming ubiquitous as schools cut the cost of a human being and substitute a single investment program. The use of a computer system for career guidance counselors has been discussed by Gati (1994) who reports that counselors need to remember that all databases are compiled by humans and this means that they are subject to the value system of the humans who compiled it. Therefore, when counselors select and utilize a computer system as part of their counselin
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