Career counseling will be in high demand for the next 5 years as many people look for jobs and career transitions. Effective career counseling involves learning about the client through personality tests to understand them, then putting all the information together to help them. Clients see career counselors for a variety of reasons like work stress, job transitions, or losing their job. To be successful, career counselors must be good listeners, communicators, and analysts to assist their clients.

1. Career counseling: where do we go from here?Career choice and career transitions

2. Career counseling today and up through the next five years or so, will be in demand.With so many people looking for jobs, career counselors can meet these needs.Career counseling in demand

3. First things first: get to know your client

4. Myers-BriggsAnalogy testBirkmanPersonalityAssessmentPersonality testing good place to begin

5. “Putting all the puzzle pieces together”

6. Clients come for career counseling for many reasons…

7. Reasons for career counselingStress related work issues

8. Transitional work issues

9. Loss of job

10. Any and/or all of the aboveWhat else should a career counselor know?