This document discusses career counseling and career empowerment. It defines career as an individual's future activities related to their chosen occupation based on their abilities. It describes different types of counseling including direct, indirect, problem-centered, and client-centered approaches. The benefits of career counseling include reducing turnover and absenteeism, improving performance, and helping with decision making. Career empowerment involves giving employees freedom and support for decision making. It benefits organizations by increasing creativity, faster decision making, and a more motivated workforce. Challenges can include lack of resources, time, knowledge, communication, and leadership support.

1. Career counselling & Career empowerment

2. Career : meaning
Career is an individual’s future journey & activities, especially
related to the occupation that one would like to choose with
respect to one’s ability ,knowledge ,skills ,experience and
other aspect of life.

3. Career path

4. Direct counselling: Indirect counselling :
1.counsellor-centered counselling 1.client-centered counselling
2.Focus on problem not individual 2. focus on individual first
3.Client work under counsellor not with 3.client work with him
him
4.Authorative in nature 4.participative in nature
Counselling: It is an activity related to providing assistance &
gives certain kind of helps and advice to the others in solving the
personal & psychological problem
Elective counselling:
Alternate b/w problem-
centred client-centred
method

7. Career counselling: it is an advice on the issues related to career given by the counsellor to a
person through His/her expertise and experience with suitable counselling technique that support
the client in making complex decision and facing difficult situation

8. Need for career counselling
1.Chalk down the career path
2.Retaining valuable employee
3.Effective communication
4.Clearly define the expectation of employees
5.Ensure the employee to fallow ethical practices
along with co.rule & culture
6. Ensure the growth for employees
7. Stress related with work
8.Loss of job

9. Test conducted for career counselling by counsellor
1.Aptitude test
2.Attitude test
3.Ability test

10. Benefits of career counselling
1.Reduce cost related to labour turnover &
absenteeism
2.Improvement in employee performance
3.Increase in productivity
4.Manage behavioural problem
5.Motivates the employees for alternate
solution for problem
6.Helps in decision making

11. Empowerment: meaning
1. Giving freedom and authority for decision making
2. Providing financial and other support for implementing that decision

12. Condition necessary for career employment
1. Employees participation : encouraged to take initiative & participate actively
2. Innovation : encourages to new idea,new & improved way of doing things
3. Information : facility of free accessibility of information and resource
4. Accountability : held accountable for work so that best efforts ,working toward
mutually agreed goals and behaves responsibly
levels of career empowerment

13. Career empowerment :
An employees ability to control their own career development and pursue their
own interests within their organisation .
Features of career empowerment :
1.A kind of motivational technique to increase the level of employee contribution
achieving org.goal.
2.It tries to make the employees feel important
3.It is process that places the trust in the ability &initiative of employee
4.It act as a means to build the confidence in employees and to improve their
productivity

15. Benefits of career empowerment:
1.Ensure higher level of creativity & innovation within workforce
2.Faster decision making
3.Engaging the mind of employees with their career
4.Improved productivity
5.More motivated workforce
6.Ensure higher growth & development of workforce

16. Challenges of career empowerment:
1. Lack of resources or funding
2. Prohibitive time investment
3. Lack of implementation knowledge
4. Poor communication/mixed messages
5. Lack of leadership
6. Limitations on eligibility