Career Guidance And Counselling

Frank Parson's Choosing a Career (1909) was perhaps the first major work which is concerned with careers guidance. While until the 1970s a strongly normative approach was characteristic for theories (e.g. of Donald E. Super's life-span approach) and practice of career counseling (e.g. concept of matching), new models have their starting point in the individual needs and transferable skills of the clients while managing biographical breaks and discontinuities. Career development is no longer viewed as a linear process. More consideration is now placed on nonlinear, chance and unplanned influences.
The concept of career guidance and counselling surpasses the initial choice of school and profession, and includes the matching of the individual’s

Also, it includes the presumption that individuals can receive professional help in defining areas in which they can realize their aspirations, interests, competencies, personal traits, qualifications and abilities, and to connect them to available training and employment options. In accordance with this definition of career guidance and counselling, the activities of career guidance and counselling can be classified in six

This education helps individuals understand their motives, values, and the way in which they can contribute to the society they live in. It gives them the knowledge of the labor market, skills that enable them to make choices in the field of education, work and life, and it also teaches them how to plan their career and prepare for work. That is, career education promotes understanding of the world of work through school programs, and in different forms. Activities that include career informing and career counselling can be integrated into subject and teaching areas in school or they can be realized as special group activities for students. Unlike career counselling, career education promotes understanding of the world of work through school curricula. That can be realized in different forms within the teaching process. Those can be different forms of career informing and career counselling that are directly integrated into subject areas by teachers, or acquiring specific skills needed for employment, organized as a special segment of the educational work, that is also included into the school curriculum. Special employment skills can include the skills of career management, transfer from school to work, etc. These school activities support the goals of career guidance and