Career counseling

Contents:
• Career counseling definition
• Dimensions in Career Counseling
• The process of C development
• Career management
• Theories of Career Counseling
• The word career covers all types of Employment
Ranging from semi-skilled through skilled, and semi
professional to professional.

• The term careers has often been restricted to suggest

an employment commitment to a single trade skill,
profession or business firm for the entire working life
of a person.
• Career counseling…..

• Counseling is the means by which one person

helps another through purposeful
conversation.

• Counseling is a method of identifying practical

solution to an identified problem.
 Dimensions in CC
• Planning

• Career planning is the process by which one selects career

goals & the path to these goals.
– It means helping the employees to plan their career in terms of their
capacities with in the context of organization needs.

• Career planning is a subset of career management. Career

planning applies the concepts of Strategic Planning and
Marketing to taking charge of one's professional future.
• Development
• “Career development is a Formal approach used by
organization to ensure that people with proper
qualifications and experiences are available when
needed”

• Organizational development
• Personal development
• How individuals manage their careers within
and between organizations

• And how organizations structure the career

progress of their members, it can also be tied
into succession planning within some
organizations.
• The process of C development
– Self assessment
– Interest
– Skills
– Personality
– Values
– Career management
• Career management

• Career management is an ongoing process of

preparing, implementing and monitoring career
plans undertaken by the individual alone or in
concert with the organization’s career systems.