Related Literature Review: Career Guidance, And Development

CHAPTER-II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND RESEARCHES

2.1. INTRODUCTION: The researcher’s most essential and very important task after selecting the topic is to review the related literature and related researches to get the clear cut, minute and micro details about the problem under investigation. The researcher also made such efforts and gathered the micro information about the problem selected for the research. The information is the very scattered manner and these attempts of the researcher to review the literature enabled the researcher to plan and design the objectives, action hypothesis, and tools treatment to be given for eradicating the problem.

In this chapter, the standards, benefits, work environment and requirements of career

2.3. CAREER GUIDANCE:

Career guidance is an individual or publication that provides guidance to people facing a variety of career challenges. These challenges may include (but are not limited to) dealing with redundancy; seeking a new job; changing careers; returning to work after a career break; building new skills; personal and professional development; going for promotion; and setting up a business. The common aim of the career guide, whatever the particular situation of the individual being guided, is normally to help that individual gain control of their career and, to some extent, their life.

2.3.1. Career Guidance Counselors:

Individuals who work as career guides usually take the approach of combining coaching, mentoring, advising and consulting in their work, without being limited to any one of these disciplines. A typical career guide will have a mixture of professional qualifications and work experiences from which to draw when guiding clients. They may also have a large network of contacts and, when appropriate will put a particular client in touch with a contact relevant to their case. A career guide may work for themselves independently or for one or more private or public careers advisory services. The term 'Career Guide ' has been first established and used by career consulting firm Position Ignition, which was created in 2009 and has been using the term for their career consultants and career

2.3.2. Career guidance standards:

Career counseling and career coaching are similar in nature to traditional counseling. However, the focus is generally on issues such as career exploration, career change, personal career development and other career related issues. Typically when people come for career counseling they know exactly what they want to get out of the process, but are unsure about how it may work. In the UK, career counseling would usually be referred to as careers advice or guidance.

Career counseling is the process of helping the candidates to select a course of study that may help them to get into job or make them employable. A career counselor helps candidates to get into a career that is suited to their aptitude, personality, interest and skills. So it is the process of making an effective correlation between the internal psychology of an individual with the external factors of employability and