2023

Career Counseling
Intake Interview
Jan Mikhail Ronald A. Reyes
Objectives

At the end of the period, we should be able to:

• Define career counseling intake interview

• Distinguish the interview sequence
• Identify the different factors of counseling in Multicultural
setup
CONTENTS

01 02 03
Career Interview
Career Problems
Counseling sequence

04 05 06
Do’s & Don’ts Multicultural Things to Ponder
Factors
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Career Counseling
Main Purpose > Counseling skills
Definition
The intake interview includes background
information, presenting problems, current status
information, health and medical information, family
information, social and developmental history, life
roles, problems that interfere with career
counseling and development, clarifying problems,
and identifying client goals.
Purposes

Other Purposes
• Gather information
Main Purpose • Identify needs/problems
• Identify contributors to the problem
Understand the • Determine barriers (perceived/real)
concern, underlying and supports
emotions and fears, • Diagnose (possibly)
barriers and supports • Identify negative/dysfunctional
thoughts
• Develop preliminary goals
Counseling Skills
Basic Listening Skills
Reflection of feelings,
paraphrasing, summarizing,
confronting, silence, clarifying,
open-ended questions (but not
too many – don’t make it an
interview), pacing
Career Counseling Knowledge
• Tools for self-knowledge
• Tools for occupational knowledge
• Tools for job search
• A plan (career theory)
CONTENTS

01 02 03
Career Interview
Career Problems
Counseling sequence

04 05 06
Do’s & Don’ts Multicultural Things to Ponder
Factors
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Career Problems
Possible career problems
 Career Problems

Career major Expanding/narrowing Negative career

choice or change career or educational thinking
options

Underemployment, Career transitions

Job search (resume, unemployment (self/partner)
interviewing,
networking)
Mental health issues – which came first?
Anxiety, depression, self-esteem, Personality Disorders

Disability
Discrimination
CONTENTS

01 02 03
Career Interview
Career Problems
Counseling sequence

04 05 06
Do’s & Don’ts Multicultural Things to Ponder
Factors
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Interview Sequence
Intake interveiw sequence
Sequence Develop goals
Welcome
and objectives

Problems
Confidentiality interfering with
INTERVIEW
career devt
FLOW

Life Roles /
Current Status Potential
Conflict
Sample Intake Questions
• What brings you by?
• What options are you considering?
• How do you typically go about making decisions?
• How would you like this decision to be different?

• What role has your family played in how you see yourself and
your options?
• What role has your culture played in how you see yourself and
your options?
• What other factors are important to you as you are making this
career decision?
Sample Intake Questions
• Ideally, what would you like to accomplish by the end of
our last session?
• Tell me about your occupational and educational history
• What are your current plans?
• If you had to choose today, what would you choose?

• Other issues-depression, anxiety, poverty, discrimination?

• At this point in my career development I am trying to…”?
CONTENTS

01 02 03
Career Interview
Career Problems
Counseling sequence

04 05 06
Do’s & Don’ts Multicultural Things to Ponder
Factors
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Do’s and Don’ts
Intake interveiw sequence
Do’s

●Go over purpose of the sessions

●Confidentiality
●Use basic counseling skills
●Get a clear picture of their expectations
Do’s

●What do they want to occur by the last session?

Is it reasonable?
●Determine a goal for meeting
●Ask pertinent questions
●End on time
Don’ts

• Chew gum
• Look unprofessional
• Forget about confidentiality
• Forget to record (test first!)
Don’ts

• End too early or go over time limits

• Leave without a clear goal in mind
• Ask too many questions
• Forget your basic counseling skills
• Rush or panic
Don’ts

ALWAYS REMEMBER – YOU ARE

GETTING THEIR STORY!!
CONTENTS

01 02 03
Career Interview
Career Problems
Counseling sequence

04 05 06
Do’s & Don’ts Multicultural Things to Ponder
Factors
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Multicultural Factors
RESPECTFUL Model
RESPECTFUL Model

The RESPECTFUL Model was developed in order

to have one goal and that is to recognize the
multidimensionality of all clients with regards to
counseling and its process.
RESPECTFUL Model
Religious – Some clients are affected by their
religion. Others might not be affected at all.

Economic – Class standing and roles in life affects

the progress and development of a client.

Sexual – Sexual identity also influences personal

development especially those whose orientation is
oppressed thus greatly affecting their sense of worth.
RESPECTFUL Model
Psychological – Clients behave based on their
maturity specially in dealing with life’s challenges.

Ethnic – Some clients experience “within-group”

differences which affects their psychological
development.

Chronological – Physical, cognition, and

psychological skills affect how an individual perceive
life at different stages.
RESPECTFUL Model
Trauma – Stressful situations can put an individual
at risk for psychological dangers.

Family – Family plays vital role in developing one’s

career and ambition in life.

Unique– People who possess unique physical

characteristics may experience stress of
dissatisfaction.
RESPECTFUL Model

Location – being aware of the location, types of

occupation available to an individual and even the
dialects spoken helps a counselor be fair at all times.
RESPECTFUL Model

Consideration of the above during the course

of a counseling relationship helps the
counselor-client relationship stay, as the
acronym insinuates, respectful.
RESPECTFUL Model

This model provides counselors with the

ability to progress appropriately, ethically,
and holistically through each counseling
session.
CONTENTS

01 02 03
Career Interview
Career Problems
Counseling sequence

04 05 06
Do’s & Don’ts Multicultural Things to Ponder
Factors
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Things to Ponder
Things to Ponder
1. What is the importance of being familiar with the
RESPECTFUL Model in addressing multicultural group
counseling? Select two (2) factors of the RESPECTFUL Model
and give practical applications of it.

2. Choose two (2) career problems and explain it with practical

examples.