Career Counseling: Traditional and Online Approaches

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Career Counseling Traditional and Online
Approaches

• Chapter 4
• Dr. Bill Bauer

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Career Counseling Defined

• Consists of those activities performed or
  coordinated by individuals who have credentials
  to work with other individuals or groups of
  individuals or groups of individuals about
  occupations, life/career, career decision making,
  career planning, career pathing, or other career
  development related questions or conflicts.

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Two Phases of Career Counseling

• Client goal or problem identification
• Establishing a working relationship and defining
  roles
• Developing an understanding of the clients
  characteristics and environment
• Make a diagnosis of the client problem
• Resolution of the problem
• Making an intervention
• Evaluating the impact of the intervention
• Terminating the intervention if it is successful

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Post-Positivist (modern) Approach

• Present the problem and Goals
• Search for exceptions
• Identify strengths.
• Develop and carry out a plan.

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Positivist Approach to Career Counseling

• Identify the decision Maker
• Relationship building
• Assessment and Goal Setting
• Problem Solving
• Termination
• What paradigm will you operate from?

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Career Counseling Competencies

• See Handout.
• http//www.ncda.org/pdf/counselingcompetencies.pdf
  

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The Career Counseling Process

• 5 stages
• Establish a counselor-client relationship
• Diagnosing the problem
• Goal setting
• Intervention
• Gathering Information
• Identifying Transferable skills
• Multi-cultural Considerations
• Facilitating Decision Making
• Guided Fantasy
• Improving Time Perspective
• Evaluation

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Assessment Devices on Line

• The Career Key
• http//www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/l/lkj/
• http/weber.edu/communication/com105/Discussion/Th
  eKeirseySorter.html
• www.jan.gov
• http//www.doleta.gov/programs/onet/

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Career Counseling Competencies

• 13 Individual/Group Assessment
• Knowledge about instruments and assessments for
  personal characteristics.
• Knowledge about instruments and techniques to
  assess leisure, interests, learning style, life
  roles, self-concept, career maturity, vocational
  identity, career indecision and work preference.
• Knowledge about instruments and techniques to
  assess work environment conditions.

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Career Counseling Competencies
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