This document discusses career development and counseling. It defines a career as the long-term job or profession someone pursues. It outlines diagnostic tools used in career assessment like aptitude, personality, and psychometric tests. The five steps of career development are self-assessment, exploration, decision making, reality testing, and implementation. Career counseling is a holistic method to evaluate student interests and needs to suggest career paths. The five stages of career counseling are initiation, exploration, decision making, preparation, and implementation. The document also discusses the importance of face-to-face feedback and its role in motivation, performance improvement, problem solving, and continued learning.