Careers Counselling involves more than just finding work for people.

Among other things, Careers Counselling may involve helping people:

- identify the best job for their skills and interests

- find any job to meet their personal and financial needs

- find a better or more appropriate job for their situation

- achieve job satisfaction through appropriate choices

- plan and cope with career changes

- better adapt to the workplace

- improve their potential for advancement in the workplace

- identify new career possibilities when circumstances change.

To be able to assist a client in each or any of these processes, a Careers Counsellor must be aware of :

-the diverse nature of employment opportunities

- the requirements for success in different types of jobs

- reasons that people hire and fire employees

- workplace conditions including contract law, industrial relations systems, health and safety issues, ethics- useful contacts among employers, government departments, funding bodies, professional associations, industry experts, etc

- factors that hinder or promote a person’s job-seeking effectiveness

- trends in the local job market.

A good Careers Counsellor must be impartial and objective.

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