Q: What is Career Counseling?
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counselors work with people from various walks of life, such as adolescents seeking to explore caree options, or experienced professionals contemplating
a career change. Career counselors typically have a background in counseling, assessment of personality, and
career development theories. The approach of career counseling varies, but will generally include the completion of one or more assessments. These
assessments typically include measures of interests, values, skills, and personality. The two most commonly used assessments
are the Strong Interest Inventory and the MBTI.
Q:
What are the benefits of receiving
career counseling?
If you are undecided or confused about career choices, then you might want to consider utilizing the services
of a career counselor. The benefits of receiving career counseling are many. First and most obviously, a career
counseling can help you gain knowledge about specific careers, the workplace, and future marketing trends. Second, a career
counselor can help you understand who you are and what you want out of your life and your career through helping you take
a look at such things as your interests, skills, abilities, values, and goals. Perhaps even more importantly, a career counselor
can offer you the support you need as you make decisions about your life and your career and help you actually make the transition
to a more satisfying lifestyle.
Q: I don't want my current employer know about
my job search, will these results be shared with my current employer?
A: Absolutely not. All counseling sessions and assessment results are confidential. Our confidentiality
will be broken only in the following cases:
- you
state that you plan to harm yourself
-you state that
you plan to harm someone else
- You state that you are
abusing an elderly.
Q: Do these tests show whether I
have a psychological problem?
A: No. The tests
used in career counseling are not designed to detect Psychiatric pathologies. They are designed to explore your personality
in relation to work environments, your decision making preferences, your preferred mode of gathering information and your
orientation to the life, i.e. introversion or extraversion.
