Careers Counselling Outline
Want to help people start or change their career?
Learn more about the employment industry and about ways to help others (or yourself) develop and pursue a career path that is both achievable and appropriate.
Career Counselling is also a valuable addition to your teaching, counselling, management, life-coaching, or community services qualification. It can improve parents' ability to help their children choose suitable career paths, or student's ability to plan their own career or career change.
"In the modern day, many people do not have a "job for life". People change jobs and retrain throughout their lives. This course considers how we support people leaving school, college and university to decide on their future, find jobs, undertake training and so on. But also how we support the adult who wishes to retrain, return to work after maternity leave or redundancy. This course provides students with an interesting career option in the current economic climate." Tracey Jones, B.Sc. (Hons) (Psychology), M.Soc.Sc (social work), DipSW (social work), PGCE (Education), PGD (Learning Disability Studies)
Lesson Structure
There are 10 lessons in this course:
1. Introduction
2. Nature of Careers
3. Careers Advice Resources
4. Services
5. Developing Counselling Skills
6. Conducting a Counselling Session
7. Counselling Students and School Leavers
8. Counselling Adults (inexperienced or facing career change)
9. Job Prospecting
10. Nurturing and Growing a career once it has started
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Aims
- Identify people and organisations that offer career advice or support and the services they offer.
- Distinguish successful from unsuccessful careers, and prepare for anticipated changes in the workplace.
- Develop skills that will enhance your ability to guide others in the establishment or development of a career.
- Plan and execute an effective counselling session
- Explain strategies for dealing with the needs of inexperienced young people.
- Identify and meet the needs of inexperienced adults or those facing career change.
- Explain how and where to find employment in the job market.
- Describe the need to nurture and grow a career and plan for change.
Activities
- Undertake research into the scope and nature of employment services and service providers in your region or locality
- Research a career area to identify the kind of work involved, requirements, who offers it, trends etc
- Role play a counselling session to practise and evaluate your skills in helping a client with an issue
- Conduct research to improve your understanding of what careers counselling entails
- Plan a careers counselling session, including the session goal, timeframe, and anticipated issues
- Discuss career concerns with young people who are leaving or have recently left secondary school
- Discuss with adults their experiences of career change
- Plan strategies to assist young and adult clients deal with common and important identified issues.
Careers Counselling
Statement of Achievement —
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Duration: 100 Hours
Delivery: Online & Correspondence
Code: BPS202
