Adult Career Guidance and Adult Career Advice
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Adult Career Guidance and Adult Career Advice
Posted: Oct 23, 2010 |Comments: 0
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1. What is typically involved in a Career Guidance session for an Adult?
The typical career guidance session for an adult would involve exploring the client’s background and experience from a work, academic, family and possibly community perspective. By exploring these areas of your life we will highlight interests, values and other aspects of the client’s personality that are important in their working life.
It may be beneficial to the client to take a personality or an interest inventory. This comprises the client answering a number of questions which help the career guidance counselor to highlight and give feedback on aspects of the client’s personality that will point to specific types of work that would suit their personality and skills set. An important part of an adult career guidance session is career planning. This typically involves highlighting all the necessary steps/stages (education/training) involved in attaining the chosen career and weighing up the pros’ and cons.
2. How does a Career Guidance session differ for an Adult as opposed to a School Leaver?
Both sessions are very similar in that it is the career guidance counselor’s job to highlight the client’s potential (skills, personality values, etc)