Career Counselling Case Study

The nature and eminence of career counselling in high school is highly diverse across schools (Naicker, 1993). Programs in high school intended to backing students in the career decision-making process range from activities where student’s enterprise and motivation play a fundamental role in the student’s access to and use resources, such as voluntary meetings with a school counsellor (to gain information about applying to, choosing, and financing postsecondary education, arranging job shadowing or job placement, or specialized counselling), career fairs, and workshops, to more structured guidance such as apprenticeships, (Pond, 2010).

2.1 CAREER GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING

The conception of career guidance has been broadly used since the early

A college-ready student is an academically prepared student, ready for post-secondary education or training without the need for remedial coursework. Whether you are pursuing a four-year degree or studying for a skilled trade certificate, being ready means the reading, writing, mathematics, social, and cognitive skills to qualify for and succeed in the academic program of your choice (Darche & Stam, 2012).

Radcliff & Bos, 2013 support the following goals to help secondary students cecome college-ready and develop a college-going culture: “The student will (1) understand the nature of college, (2) recognise that a college education may be important to his or her future success, (3) gain positive perceptions and aspirations about college, (4) prepare academically for college admission, and (5) set short-and long-term goals that support becoming college-ready” (Radcliff & Bos, 2013, P.137 ).

A career is defined by (Gybers, 2013) as the life roles, settings and events of individual’s lives that a constantly being influenced by such factors as gender, ethnic origin, race, spirituality social class, and sexual

Although there is a wide range of careers to choose from, individuals without appropriate or formal guidance and counselling on future career choice decisions can be limited in their career options, especially if they are unprepared for the requirements of the workplace, underestimate their capabilities, or are unaware of the range of workplace accommodations that can broaden their career options.

2.7.1 CAREER INDECISION

Career indecision is a term that is commonly used when referring to career development problems, specifically problems that involve making career-related decisions (Taylor, 2007). Research into career development has devoted much attention to the categorisation of various problems related to career indecision, suggesting that career decisions have the following features: “there is an individual who has to make a decision; there are a number of alternatives to select from; and there are many attributes that are considered in the comparison and evaluation of the various