This document discusses the implications of career counseling and its role in developing human potential. It notes that career development is a process leading to decision-making, and that counselors should understand developmental stages and tasks, interpret individual interests, and recognize changes in work environments. The document outlines how career counseling can encourage challenging limitations and stimulating growth across the lifespan. It discusses how minorities, women, the poor, and people with disabilities face disadvantages that counselors should address by promoting career equity and opportunities regardless of background. Finally, it notes a lack of career counseling in most Pakistani schools.

1. Implication of Career Counseling
and the Development of Human
Potential
Maham Naveed
M.Ed Secondary
Roll no 2015-245

2. Career Counseling
Career
Choice
Theories
Chances
Happens
Interest and
abilities
Personality
traits
Human
development
and maturity
Economic
Factors
Individual
Values

3. Factors involves in choosing Career

4. Implications of career theory for
counselors
• Career development is a process leading to a
decision
• Counselors should understand:
• Particular tasks at certain developmental stages
• Interpret and assess individual interest
• Basic human needs and special needs
• Recognize the rapid change in the ways people work
and live
• Update the theories and research

5. Development of Human Potential

6. Career Counseling of Human Potential
Development (CCHD)
• CCHD focus on encouraging clients to challenge
the limitations of their present self concept in a
manner of speaking, to redefine themselves and
stimulate their vitality
• Development occurs across the life span of the
individual
• Awareness of maturing process related to mastery
of development task at each life stage

7. • Individual aptitudes and interest should be
enhanced by strategies and experienced
• Environment influences the development
• Programs designed to inhibit negative factors
that prevent full development

8. Phases of Human development program
• Who plays significant role?
• Postsecondary Educational
institutions
• Adult Educational Program
• Career centers
• Private practitioners
• Employment Offices
Assessment
Planning
Placement

9. Women
• Traditional Women’s Careers????
• Today women’s careers????
• Women in Pakistan = 48.63% (2014) World Bank
• Women in Labor Work= 21.7% ( 2009)
• 2005 to 2008 approx. 75, 000 divorce cases
• 2008 to 2011 approx. 1, 24141 divorce cases
were registered in Pakistan
• 85 percent of love marriages end up in
separations

10. Single Parent Life 

11. Selfish trend

12. Women potential should be enhanced
• Prejudice in salaries and opportunities
• Sexual Harassment of female worker
• 60% of women headed families live in poverty
• Career Counselors must help female clients to
identify alternatives of traditional jobs as well
as create balance to be a mother and a worker
• Recognize educational opportunity, job search
skills and Positive self concept

13. Minorities in Pakistan
• U.S. State Department's International
Religious Freedom Report 2002 estimated
• Christians at 2.09 million
• Ahmadis at 286,000
• Hindus at 1.03 million
• Parsis , Buddhists, and Sikhs at 20,000 each

14. Our Society future will not be healthy if tomorrow’s
minority adults are seriously disadvantaged and
NEGLECTED

15. Minorities
• Counselors should assist minorities in
achieving career equity and opportunities
• Do not be used Biased assessment
instruments
• Should be advocated for employment of them
based on personal qualification, not on ethnic
culture background

16. Poor
• According to 27 March,
2014 Report
• Poverty in Pakistan – 40 %
people living below
poverty line
• 52 % of total population in
Baluchistan
• 33 % of Sindh
• KPK having 32 %
• 19 % of Punjab

17. Poor

18. Counseling
• Homeless Assistance Act (1987) designed to
aid schools and reconnect child with school
• School in poverty areas must have good
counseling programs and adult education
program
• Encouraged to apply only for jobs for which
they are qualified
• Involvement of local business

19. People with Disabilities
• A person who has a physical and mental
impairment that substantially limits one or
more major life activities
• According to Harrington (1997), students with
disabilities frequently leave school without
marketable skills or the ability to function
independently

20. Counseling of People with Disabilities
• Understanding of various disabilities and their
career implications
• Knowledgeable regarding appropriate
resources
• Sensitive, supportive and at the same time
Realistic
• Facilitate family support with efforts of other
people
• Encourage them handicap to employment

21. Inadequate career counseling
in Pakistan
• In Pakistan, 60 % of the schools are public schools and
unfortunately none of them are even aware of the
term ‘career counseling’
(M. Murtaza Noor, Director
Community Support Program
Pakistan) 2013
• 710 schools (Islamabad) and 2,100 private schools
(Rawalpindi) do not offer career counseling
Malik Abrar, President All Private
Schools and College Owners’
Association (APSCOA)

22. Thank You