The article presents the results of a nationwide survey conducted by the Associationof School and Vocational Counsellors of the Republic of Poland in cooperation with theEducation Development Center ...in Warsaw on the training needs of career counsellors workingfor education. The research was conducted in 2021 on a group of 143 career counsellors workingin primary and secondary schools. The respondents answered questions on six subject areas:1) Getting to know yourself/Getting to know your own resources, 2) The world of professionsand the labour market, 3) The educational market and lifelong learning, 4) Planning your owndevelopment and making educational and professional decisions, and 5) other training needs,as well as 6) their preferred forms of professional development. The obtained data will allow forthe construction of an effective training offer dedicated to career counsellors employed in the education system.
The career counselor helps the beneficiary to build self-confidence in order to make an adequate choice. Counseling may be seen as a complex action, providing multiple benefits both to the ...beneficiary and to the employer. On the student’s side, it’s about identifying expectations and making a choice. From the employer’s perspective, he/she would seek a candidate being confident in he’s/she’s capacities, well trained and able to fit in the organization. Within the constructivist model, the counselors can understand the student’s approach of this process and interact as partners. A fundamental constructivist principle is to value the beneficiary’s opinion (student’s in our case). The main aim of this study is to characterize the student’s perceptions trough two dimensions of choosing a future career: the importance of specific constructivist career counseling activities and the self-esteem role. The counselor’s perception on organizing counseling actions has been also documented, following the constructivist approach. The comparative analysis showed similar opinions on the value of the constructivist counseling model in the two respondents groups. This allows us to consider that there is openness toward the specific organizing and designing of counseling actions following the constructivist approach.
This study aimed to explore the variation of Omani career counselors’ mindfulnesslevel, in relation to their gender, qualifications, experience, age, and social status. The Mindful Attention ...Awareness Scale was used to assess the mindfulness level of 164 career counselors from the Sultanate of Oman. The findings showed that mindfulness level was high among career counselors. The results also revealed significant differences due to gender. Males’ level of mindfulness was higher than females. N o differences were found due to qualifications, experience, age, and social status on the level of mindfulness. Recommendations suggested further research to examine the relationship between mindfulness in career counselors and positive client outcomes.
Construction, as an industry with ongoing skills shortages, needs to develop better ways to attract and retain new male and female employees. Career counselors play a pivotal role in providing ...vocational guidance to young people exploring career options. Career counselors' perceptions of construction as a career for young people were examined. A questionnaire investigated their knowledge of construction, perceptions of the industry being a good vocation for both genders, and the reported frequency with which they directed young people to consider construction. Comparisons using t-tests found career counselors perceived construction to be a better career option for males, and directed males more frequently than females to explore construction careers. Viewing construction as a good career option was a predictor for career counselors directing both genders to a construction career. Unexpectedly personally knowing someone in construction, and having a better self-rated knowledge of construction careers had a positive impact on counselors encouraging young women, but not young men, to consider a construction career. The findings indicate that an educative model, where counselors gain firsthand knowledge from people working in the industry, may counter negative gender stereotypes and encourage more young women to consider a career in construction.
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The object of this paper is the issue of career counseling for secondary school students using the "Model career counseling" (hereinafter MCC). The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the ...contribution of the MCC for students while deciding about the choice of their further education and career choices with the implementation of abilities, interests and personal abilities of the student. The method is an analysis of personality preconditions, general, specific abilities and interests of students by using standardized tests and non-standardized author's questionnaires. Consequently, comparison is realized of the collected data about students with graduate profiles in the study program. Based on the observed results, the focus of their further study is recommended to the students.
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Recruitment of high school student into Construction Management (CM) undergraduate programs is challenging for many United States universities. Often, only students who know someone in the industry ...are aware of the degree and career possibilities related to CM. A survey of 81 freshmen CM students in one CM program indicates high school counselors tended to have little or no knowledge of CM in Colorado. To gain more insight into this situation and to develop strategies to address it, a needs assessment was conducted to determine Colorado high school counselors' current knowledge and perceptions of CM career opportunities. Responses from Colorado high schools counselors indicate a gap exists between their knowledge of CM career and degree opportunities and the level of knowledge that CM programs would like for them to possess and share with their students. Survey results also indicate that the existence of a gap in students' knowledge of CM, along with negative perceived social norms, further limit counselors' ability to effectively advise student about CM. The High School Counselor Outreach Program (HSCOP) was developed to provide guidance to CM departments on how to address the identified knowledge gaps based on the barriers and preferences identified.
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Principles for counseling potential whistleblowers are presented along with two sample cases to assist career counselors in advising their clients. The article provides information on relevant laws, ...difficult choices, and the working alliance that must be developed with a potential whistleblower. A checklist of questions to guide the client in their decision-making is provided as well as a table of options.
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The purposes of this study are to identify necessary vocational skills and factors that promotevocational development for career supporting practitioners (CSPs). We carried out the study byconducting ...semi-structured interviews with 13 CSPs. After transcribing subjects’ interview statements,we used the KJ method to code them, and analyzed them, taking into consideration the opinions ofclinical psychologists. Taking the results, we organized necessary vocational skills into two areas: basicskills for human service professionals, and skills that are particularly necessary for CSPs. Basic skillsfor human service professionals were: "basic counseling skills," "ability to act as a human serviceprofessional," "awareness of role and consciousness as a specialist," and "understanding of oneself andothers." Skills particularly necessary for CSPs were: "power to interact with environment andorganizations," "knowledge and experience to become involved in career support," and "appropriatedemeanor as member of an organization, based on experience." In this study we defined these factors,that link to necessary vocational skills, as factors that promote vocational development, and concretelyorganized them as personal factors, environmental factors, and vocational experience.
Increasingly, scholars are urging that there should be a careful examination of the role of social relations, especially those between parents and children, on the professional development of youth. ...In this chapter, we first present the recent models and theoretical approaches (e.g., contextual action theory, social cognitive model, and the life design approach) that recognize the need to carefully consider the role that parents play in their children’s career development. Next, the parental support role in their children’s professional development is explored, in relation to socioeconomic circumstances. Poverty, unemployment, precariousness, and underemployment are becoming characteristic of the context even in the richest countries; thus today’s parents find themselves playing their support role in their children’s professional development within much more complex societies. Some parents, especially those with low socioeconomic status (SES), are pessimistic in their overall perception of the economy, and, despite being concerned about their children’s future, may find it hard to plan for it; thus, they do not encourage their children and do not start interactions centered on the future with them.
Adolescent career development is affected by two interdependent contextual family factors: (a) structural family variables and (b) process family variables (e.g., parents’ aspirations, parental support, family interactions). As regards structural variables, we examined socioeconomic background and social class. In research across multiple cultures, youth from families of low SES and social class have been found to have more limited opportunities for career development and more difficulties in accessing educational and social opportunities. Social class is a more difficult structural variable to define than SES. It is characterized as a cultural, psychological, and subjective factor internalized by the individual which goes beyond income, upbringing, and education, and shapes the construction of the self.
As regards contextual process family variables, we focused on parental support and family interactions. Across ethnic groups (e.g., African-Americans, Italian, North Americans, French), adolescents who report greater support and more positive interactions with their parents are more engaged in designing their school–career future. Specifically, greater parental support and positive relationships between parents and children are associated with more career decision-making, vocational exploration, career self-efficacy beliefs, career adaptability, less irrational career beliefs, and a greater propensity to optimism and hope in youth. In addition, it is in the family that children begin to give meaning to the world of work and construct their idea of education and work and of their career lives.
Lastly, in relation to the relevance of relationships between parents and their children for the latter’s career development, in this chapter we discuss how to help parents to support the realization of their children’s professional projects. Parents are a key source for enabling youth to achieve preventive goals related to career education. Specifically, we provide two examples of parent training programs that are aimed at promoting parental skills in supporting their children’s career construction.
Work traumas and unanticipated career transitions due to lay-offs or firing, personal injury, illness or disability, hostile work environments, discrimination, sexual harassment, and the dissolution ...of workplace romances or affairs can have a profound impact on an individual’s career course and personal identity. Despite this significant impact, few career counselling or career development theories discuss these types of work traumas in detail and how to help individuals recover, adapt, and thrive despite their circumstances.
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