Career Counseling

FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY AND

THE UNEMPLOYES
By Deni Fazri

www.reallygreatsite.com
WHAT IS CAREER?

Career counseling is about helping clients to construct a

subjectively meaningful identity, to increase their self-reflection,
and to help them create their career according to their personal
identity and life story (Hirschi & Froidevaux, 2020).
OBJECT ON CAREER COUNSELING

Main Object
1. Student

Support Object
1. Parents
2. Educator
3. Counselor
4. Employer / company
STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT
ADVOCATES
Parents
1. Talk with your children about their interests, abilities, and talents
2. Make sure your children go to school every day, on time, with good attitudes. They will need these
habits for successful employment.
3. Give your children responsibility for jobs around the house.
4. Find out what your children are learning in school.

Educator
1. Help students understand the need for advanced skills and education for future work.
2. Involve business people in curriculum design to make courses more relevant to the world of work.
3. Offer instruction in workplace readiness, such as teamwork and problem-solving
STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT
ADVOCATES
Conselor
1. • Encourage students with disabilities to take the coursework required to achieve their
postsecondary goals.
2. Help students understand their abilities, interests, talents, and personality characteristics so that
the student can develop realistic academic and career options.
3. Review the financial aid opportunities available specifically for students with disabilities.
4. Advise students with disabilities of the availability of accommodations during standardized
testing (ACT, PSAT, SAT, etc). Provide facilities for non-standardized administration of
comprehensive/qualifying examinations.
5. Advise students of college majors, admission requirements, entrance exams, financial aid, and
training opportunities
6. Provide this information early on so that students can get a head start.
7. Assist students in developing a comprehensive transition portfolio or file to share with college
admissions personnel and college service providers.
8. Help students to access vocational rehabilitation (VR) services, when necessary. • Help to keep
students' future options open
STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT
ADVOCATES
Employer
1. Collaborate with educators to develop an integrated curriculum based on
academic standards and real work experiences.
2. Offer schools and students as many work-based learning opportunities as possible,
such as tours, mentoring, job shadowing, and non-paid work experiences.
3. Serve on a school improvement team.
4. Partner with a school by donating equipment and sharing training. •
STEPS FOR CONTRIBUTE TO PEOPLE
WITH DISABILITY

1. Develop a career plan.

2. Assess skills and interests.
3. research occupations.
4. Compare skills and interests with selected
occupations.
5. Identify student career goals.
STEPS FOR CONTRIBUTE TO PEOPLE
WITH DISABILITY
6. Choose a postsecondary program (For students)
7. Seek financial aid information
8. Help students prepare resumes.
9. Identify opportunities for employment.
10. Practice job-interviewing techniques.
11. Provide additional help and information for
career planning
 ADDITIONAL WORK

Mentoring
the supportive relationship between a youth or young adult and someone more senior in age and
experience who offers support, guidance, and assistance as the younger partner goes through a
difficult period, enters a new area of experience, takes on an important task, or corrects an earlier
problem (Sarkees-Wircenski & Scott, 2003).

Assistive of Technology
It is likely that many of your students with disabilities already rely on or benefit from some type of
technology that increases function, capacity, or comprehension. Such a device or tool is
commonly referred to as assistive technology (AT).
REFERENCE

Hirschi, A., & Froidevaux, A. (2020). Career counseling. In H. Gunz, M.

Lazarova, & W. Mayrhofer, Routledge Companion to Career Studies (pp. 331-
345). London, UK
Henderson, C. (1999). College freshmen with disabilities: A biennial
statistical profile. Washington, DC: American Council on Education.
Sarkees-Wircenski, M., & Scott, J. L. (2003). Special populations in career
and technical education. American Technical Publishers.
Virginia Department of Education. (2003). Virginia's college guide for
students with disabilities. Richmond, VA: Author