This power point helps the students to learn how to select their career, choices and enhancement

1. Career guidance
Dr.D.SHOBA
Assistant Professor
PG Dept of Business Admin
Guru Nanak College, Chennai
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2. Definition
 Career Guidance is a developmental process by which students become
aware of the interrelationship among interests, abilities, school, work,
family, and life roles in relation to academic and career planning.
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3. Career Guidance Process
 Lifelong learning process of career development
 Empower students to make a successful transition from
school to the world of work, from job to job, across
their life span, and to be productive citizens
 Collaborative effort of guidance staff, teachers,
parents, other family members, and community
partners
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4. Career Guidance Process
SC Career Guidance Model mission is
to improve students’ knowledge of
careers while adhering to the
standards and competencies set
forth in the South Carolina
Comprehensive Developmental
Guidance and Counseling Program
Model.
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5. Majors
 A career cluster may have several majors.
 A major consists of the completion of at least four
required units of study in that area as well as
complementary electives.
 Students are urged to take the most challenging course
work.
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6. Individual Graduation Plan
 Consists of state high school graduation
requirements and/or college entrance
requirements
 Includes course recommendations for successful
completion of a major
 Includes course recommendations to help with
successful transition to postsecondary education
and the workforce
 Offers flexibility so that plan may be updated if
students interests change
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7. Career guidance models
The elements of the Career
Guidance Model are awareness,
exploration, and preparation.
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8. Career Guidance Process
Step One – Career Awareness
 Career awareness begins in the home and community.
 Parents and extended family members enhance and
influence children’s knowledge and awareness of
careers.
 American School Counselor Association cites the
elementary school years as a time period for children
to develop awareness of self and careers.
 Career awareness activities allow children to assimilate
information about themselves and the world of work
into their thinking.
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9. Career Guidance Process
Step Two – Career Exploration
 Exploration focuses on the rapidly changing
needs of young adolescents.
 Counseling and career awareness programs on
clusters of study are provided to students.
 Assessments are used to help students
determine interests and abilities.
 Students develop an Individual Graduation Plan
(IGP) and identify a preferred cluster of study.9

10. Career Guidance Process
Step Three – Career Preparation
 Students develop realistic and fulfilling life plans based on clear
understandings of themselves and their needs, interests, and
skills.
 The IGP is reviewed and updated annually in accordance with
students’ post-graduation educational and occupational goals.
 Students experience a variety of professional opportunities
through job shadowing, apprenticeships, or internships.
 Students are assisted to develop competence in decision-
making, career planning, working with others, and taking
responsibility for their own behavior.
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11. Activities
Make the students to
 Create awareness about their career
 understand the future of their own field.
 Draw a career tree for their own field
 Giving official websites for job/ career aspect.
 Conduct the activities by employment periodicals
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