career guidance advisor
Career guidance advisors provide guidance and advice to adults and students on making educational, training and occupational choices and assist people in managing their careers, through career planning and career exploration. They help identify options for future careers, assist beneficiaries in the development of their curriculum and help people reflect on their ambitions, interests and qualifications. Career guidance advisors may provide advice on various career planning issues and make suggestions for lifelong learning if necessary, including study recommendations. They may also assist the individual in the search for a job or provide guidance and advice to prepare a candidate for recognition of prior learning.
Also called: career guidance practitioner, careers advisor, career guidance education advisor, mentor for prior learning, career coach, educational advisor, career guidance counsellor, counsellor in career guidance
- 25
- essential skills
- 31
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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- drug and alcohol addiction counsellor4 skills in common
- family planning counsellor4 skills in common
- marriage counsellor4 skills in common
- social counsellor4 skills in common
Essential skills
25- advise on training courses
- apply quality standards to the interaction with candidates
- assess candidates
- assessment processes
- assist clients with personal development
- coach clients
- counsel clients
- counselling methods
- curriculum objectives
- curriculum standards
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves
- evaluate clients' progress
- facilitate job market access
- have emotional intelligence
- identify clients' needs
- job market offers
- labour market
- listen actively
- maintain professional administration
- monitor educational developments
- provide assistance with job search
- provide career counselling
- provide information on education financing
- provide information on study programmes
- work with different target groups
Optional skills
31- adult education
- application process
- assess prior learning
- assess students' preliminary learning experiences
- communicate about youth's well-being
- communicate with youth
- cooperate with education professionals
- counsel students
- create solutions to problems
- develop professional network
- education law
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- establish educational network
- identify education needs
- identify training needs
- labour legislation
- liaise with educational staff
- manage professional transition in an arts career
- organise job search workshops
- organise projects to fill education needs
- organise study information sessions
- oversee extra-curricular activities
- perform educational testing
- personal reflection techniques based on feedback
- project management
- provide information on school services
- psychological counselling methods
- psychology
- university procedures
- use consulting techniques
- write work-related reports
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