CAREER GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING

INTRODUCTION

What Is Career Guidance?

Career guidance is assisting individuals to achieve their identified career options and
professional goals. Acting as a guide to, leading, and directing the course of action. For
example, if a student has decided to become a fashion designer, now career guidance will
help them to choose, which stream they need to take, what exams need to prepare for, and
which school has better options, based on financial condition, career guidance will help
them plan their career path.

What Is Career Counselling?

Career Counselling is a process, that will help you to know and understand yourself through
Career Assessment Test. In career assessment, the career counsellor will identify the
intrinsic Potential, Multiple Intelligence, and Personality. Each and every profession requires
a set of intelligence and personality traits. Based on the report, counsellor will recommend
which profession needs to choose.

Career Guidance

 Who has already decided on the options, but needs guidance and a career path

 Not Required DMIT1 (Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Test), psychometric, and

career aptitude Test

 Only related subject expertise required

 Whenever you need guidance, you can plan accordingly

Career Counselling

 Students & individuals will be able to identify, the best career options for them,

 Need to take DMIT (Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Test), Psychometric and

career aptitude Test

 Assessment by a Certified Career counsellor

 Career Counselling will be recommended

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DMIT (Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Test) is a biometric analysis based on the scientific study of
fingerprints patterns and Human Brain Lobes.
The major distinction between career guidance and counselling is that guidance is broad
advice or instructions given by someone more experienced or skilled, but counselling is
professional advice given by a professional counsellor on the personal or psychological
concerns of people. In our daily lives, we are frequently confronted with a variety of issues.
To find the best answers to these challenges, we sometimes require the assistance of a
second or third party. Guidance and counselling are useful in these situations. Though they
appear to be relatively similar in appearance, they differ in terms of the scope of the
assistance they provide.

Career Guidance is the counsel and instructions given to a person on a variety of issues by a
more experienced or authoritative person. As a result, guidance usually refers to the process
in which a person (usually with more knowledge or experience than the individual receiving
the guidance) provides instructions, advice on better pathways, or solutions to find the
correct answer to a problem. As a result, guiding occurs in practically all professions;
nevertheless, guidance is more widespread in the subject of education. Students are guided
throughout their educational paths by teachers, lecturers, or professors. For example,
university lectures or instructors might help undergraduates identify better job paths by
demonstrating the benefits and drawbacks of various careers they can pursue after
graduation.

Furthermore, even at work, the manager or the authoritative person leads his employees
through the duties they must complete. Consider the assistance that a bank employee can
provide you with your deposits. Even a basic example of elder siblings guiding younger
siblings demonstrates how guidance can occur. As a result, the scope of assistance is broad,
encompassing issues such as education, tasks, profession, finance, and psychology. It’s
crucial to remember that advice is given by someone with more knowledge and someone
with less experience on the subject.

Counselling is the professional guidance offered by a counsellor based on an individual’s

personal or psychological concerns. In a nutshell, counselling is a type of psychological
guidance for a person.

The Differences Between Guidance and Counseling

The differences between guidance and counselling are as discussed below:

1. Guidance is preventive, while counselling is curative. You may seek guidance before
choosing careers, but you seek counselling to save a problematic marriage.
2. Guidance helps an individual make the best choices, while counselling helps them
change their perspective. Guidance gives clients ready answers, while counselling
helps them come up with their well-informed solutions.
3. Guidance uses an external approach to tackle the issue at hand while counselling
uses an in-depth approach to establish the root causes of the problem before
tackling it.

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4. Guidance is the best approach for tackling educational and career problems while
counselling is best employed in tackling socio-psychological and other personal
problems.
5. Guidance is provided by an expert in the field at hand or anybody superior. It does
not require professional training. Counseling is given by people who have been
trained professionally to handle psychological problems.
6. Guidance provides ready answers and decisions for clients while counselling
empowers individuals to create the most appropriate solutions to tackle an issue.
7. In guidance, confidentiality is not a guarantee. It can be conducted for an individual
or a group. In counselling, you are guaranteed confidentiality since the sessions are
always one to one.
8. The guidance focuses on helping a person chose what they value the most and helps
in the process of development rather than the direction of that development.
Counseling is the reaction to the occurrences and negative situations that need to be
corrected and changed on a personal level.
9. Guidance helps an individual make the best choices, and it gives clients ready
answers. Counseling helps a person change their perspective. It also helps them
come up with their well-informed solutions.
10. Guidance involves two heads coming up with a solution to issues. Counseling
involves the client choosing the best option without prior
judgments/learning/experience.
11. Guidance is a comprehensive process; that has an external approach. Counseling
focuses on the in-depth and inward analysis of the problem until the client
understands and overcame it completely.
12. Guidance is given by a guide who can be any person superior or an expert in a
particular field. Counseling is provided by counsellors, who possess a high level of
skill and undergone professional training.
13. Guidance is the best approach to tackling educational and career problems.
Counseling is best employed in tackling socio-psychological and other personal
problems.
14. Guidance is the process of understanding the issues that impede a person’s progress
and development in the various aspects of life and then providing advice on what is
the right course of action for that person. Counseling also involves understand the
person’s problems, but the counsellor plays a more interactive role in helping the
person find the solutions that will help him or her overcome the obstacles being
faced.
15. In guidance, confidentiality is not a guarantee. It can be conducted for an individual
or a group. In counselling, we are guaranteed confidentiality since the sessions are
always one to one.

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16. Both guidance and counselling aimed at solving problems. However, guidance’s main
aim is giving a solution, while counselling focuses on finding problems, working on
them before finding a solution through numerous methods such as therapy,
psychotherapy, and more. Both the process attempts to solve the problems of the
client whereby the participation of both client and the expert should be there.