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Career Guidance Counseling This report presents my personal persp

This report presents my personal perspective of career guidance counseling. The report begins with a delineation of my overall perspective of the field and the goals and objectives that career counselors should strive to attain. This overall perspective is then followed by a discussion of the two broad categories I believe that an effective career counselor must address. These are the categories of: (1) removing psychoemotional obstacles to selecting, procuring and maintaining a job, career, or profession; and (2) teaching clients very specific and concrete behaviors which, when learned, will greatly facilitate their chance of selecting and being hired for the right job for them.

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 the spirit of the client and the mind of the client. The client's personality exists in his spirit, while his motivation rests in his mind. The spirit of a person is the immaterial essence of the personality, while the mind is the aggregate of wants, values, likes and dislikes. Since the spirit of a man is able to "remember," the spirit is where true and lasting changes happen. But the mind is where they begin.

Given the foregoing, I believe that a method of...

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