Career Counsellor's Role In The Counselling Process

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The role of a career counsellor in the career counselling process is to facilitate a successful transition of the client from one stage of their life to another whether it be from university to entering the working world or when the client has built up a considerable amount of experience and they feel they now need something more challenging. According to Egan (1998) there are four stages that are considered in the role of the career counselling in the workplace. Stage one is described as analysing the current state of affairs, stage two is identifying the preferred scenario, stage three is planning developmental activities and stage four is evaluating the outcomes. When discussing this further, analysing the current state of affairs relates …show more content…

(2012), each of the identified divisions have recommended responsibilities for the implementation of a career guidance process. The lead team’s core responsibilities require them to provide core services to the sectors identified in the framework. Some of the responsibilities include the individuals to develop policies, fund models and build relationships with relevant parties in order to render services to the various different sectors involved (DHET & SAQA, 2012). Question 2.2 When one considers the career counselling process, emphasis needs to be placed on the environment in which the counselling process will take place. The behaviour that is displayed by the career counsellor will either depict a warm and welcoming atmosphere or a cold and clinical type of environment. Coetzee (2016) emphasised that career counsellors need to address five basic emotional needs in order for them to obtain an atmosphere that is conducive to a positive impact. The five basic emotional needs are discussed in more detail below. Psychological Safety is the first emotional need and this translates into the candidate feeling safe and secure in the counselling environment. If a client feels safe and secure, they are more likely to open up and apply themselves to the task at …show more content…

This typically suggests that these individuals wish to find a balance and integrate their working lives with their personal lives. People who have this career anchor value flexibility and they look for organisations that have an attitude aligned to theirs that suggests there is respect for personal and family related concerns. The purpose of the Career Adapt-Ability Scale is to determine an individual’s overall career adaptability levels and the strength of the adaptability resources that are available to them. When looking at the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale, my highest score in this assessment was career concern. Simply put, the scale of career concern centres around the concept of ‘is there a future?’. Individuals who have this as their highest score and guided by the career counsellor to be more optimistic about their future, planning for the future and not seeing the future as a vague objective, but seeing it with

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