VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE THE OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION
SERVICE
VOCATION is a career or calling that is derived
from the word VOCARE, which means “to call”.
 Vocational Guidance
 The process of assisting an individual to
choose an occupation, prepare for it,
and progress in it.
 a facilitative process, a service
rendered to the individual to aid him in
choosing and adjusting to an
occupation.
Purposes of Vocational Guidance
1. To help adapt the schools to the needs of the
students and the community.
2. To assist the students in choosing, preparing
and training for, entering and making progress
in their chosen career or occupation.
3. To disseminate knowledge of competitive
and other problems of the business and
occupational world as well as their
characteristics. 
4. To help workers understand their
relationship with other workers, and society as
a whole.
5. To secure greater cooperation between the
school and various commercial, industrial, and
professional pursuits.
6. To encourage the establishment of courses
of study in educational institutions that will
harmoniously combine both cultural and
practical studies.
The following is an outline for the study of an
occupation:
a. Importance of an occupation
b. Nature of the work
c. Work conditions
d. Personal Qualities needed
e. Preparations needed
f. Opportunities for advancement
g. Compensation
Methods of Teaching Occupational
Information
1. Each Learner is required to gather
information about occupations. Pamphlets,
books, magazines, news papers, and workers
can be sources of information.
2. Class debates are held on the merits of
different occupations
3. Dramatizations
4. Oral reports to the class
5. Written reports
The Self-Inventory Service Means of Providing
High School Youth with Vocational Exploration
Experience
1. Exploration by means of school subjects
2. Exploration for agricultural occupations
3. Exploration for business occupation
4. Explorations through household art courses
5. Explorations for industrial occupations
 The Personal Data Collecting Service Kinds of
Personal Data needed
1. General Data – information that will be
helpful in locating the individual and in making
contacts.
2. Physical Data- information concerning the
individual’s health and physical characteristics.
3. Psychological Data- information concerning
the individual’s mental characteristics.
4. Social environment- information concerning
home and social environment conditions.
5. Achievement Data- information concerning
what the individual has done both in school and
outside of it.
6. Data concerning the individual’s educational
and vocational plans.
THE VOCATIONAL COUNSELING SERVICE
Vocational counseling is not giving vocational
advice. It is not telling individuals what
occupation they should follow. Vocational
counseling leaves decisions to the counseled
individuals. Its DUTY is performed when it helps
these individuals to follow a procedure in
arriving at their own decision, not when it tries
to make decisions for them.
THE VOCATIONAL PREPARATORY SERVICE
Types of Vocational Preparation
1. Preparation before employment begins
2. Preparation in connection with employment
3. Preparation for change of employment
 Preparation before employment
begins for:
a. Business pursuits
b. Homemaking
c. Agricultural pursuits
d. Industrial pursuits
 Preparation in connection with
employment:
a. The learners are under the supervision of the
school
b. A worker and the school aid them in
preparing better for the work.
c. The learner acquires skill and knowledge on
the job without spending any time in school.
 Preparation for change of
employment:
Conditions at work are not satisfying,
detrimental to the worker’s physical and mental
health; salary is low and not commensurate to
the job.
THE PLACEMENT SERVICE
The school placement service aids the
graduates in finding jobs through:
1. Establishing linkages or consultations with
agencies, firms, industry and business, etc.
2. Helping the individuals find suitable
occupations and helping them find an
opportunity for their continued development
PREPARED BY:
JAN ALLEANA FERNANDEZ