Chhaya Healing Webinar: " career counselling on career planning"

1. CAREER COUNSELLING
ON
“CAREER PLANNING”
DR. NIDHI SRIVASTAVA
(COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGIST, PSYCHOTHERAPIST
AND EDUCATOR, MEMBER OF BCPA and CCI)

2. What Is Career Counselling
Definition:
• Career: A career is an individual's journey
through learning, work and other aspects of
life
• Counseling: A process to help individual or a
group of individuals to solve their problems
as well take right decisions

3. Career counseling
• Career counseling is done in the school or at
the advisor/client's home on a one on one
basis
• Requires confidentiality most of the time
• Career counseling is more like an informal
chat between a client and an advisor
• One can use visual aids, storytelling, and flip
charts as additional aids
• Career counseling must be two ways

4. Six steps of effective counseling
• GREET the clients (establishing rapport)
• Gathering information from clients about their life
• TELL (advisor information) : Specific information, can
be retained longer, especially if the client is
encouraged to ask questions
• HELP the client : The decision-making or problem-
solving moment
• EXPLAIN to the client : Once the client has made a
choice , the advisor help the client remember key
information specific to that decision
• RETURN/REFER : Return visits or referrals should be
planned

5. Why need career counseling
• To assist an individual to understand self
• To enable the individual about the available
options
• To improve the individual ability to make
decisions and changes accordingly
• To empower the individual to enhance the
knowledge, skills and attitude to fit career
choice
• To assist the individual in career placements

6. Career counselling process
• Counseling is a psychotherapeutic process,
which has several stages through which a
person can successfully achieve his goal. in
the process of counseling a counselor
develops a friendly relationship and ease of
communication with the client for the
development of self understanding through
which the client can take initiatives for future
betterment

7. Establishing Initial Structure
• counseling has to be done in the peaceful place
there should not be any kind of disturbance that
can interrupt and create any chaos between
client and counselor. everyday counseling must
be start at a fixed timing otherwise it could be
the first flaw of the process, because time
management is an integral part of counseling.
the counselor should gather and organize the
information about the client and outline the key
components of the counseling process. that
includes planning the counseling strategy and
self role induction.

8. Rapport Development
• the counselor’s role is more like a guide,
counselor does not impose his decisions on the
client he always let the client choose the best
possible solution for himself from the available
possibilities. In rapport development counselor
does not judge his client because clients can
quite the process if he thinks the counselor is
criticizing or evaluating his decisions/actions.
Initially or later in the process, counselor should
avoid ordering, advising and arguments in the
process these things kills the effectiveness of
the process.

9. Know Your Client
• once the counselor gathers all the information
about the client, he should start outlining the
basic elements of his clients mood, to
understand the mindset of the client, if the
client is emotionally unstable, counselor can
share his experience’s to provide moral support
and creating emotional link and if the client is
involuntary then counselor can outline the
process of counseling to the client or If
counseling process is designed for a child then
counselor can use humor and engage the child in
different activities.

10. Identifying The Problem
• problem identification is the mutual effort of
counselor and the client, they both work
together to find out the problem that the
client has been facing. Here, majority of work
is done by the client. The counselor acts as a
facilitator to the client. After the problem is
identified, the counselor starts working to
know that is it the real problem of the client
or not?

11. • counselor may also refer the client for group
counseling services to provide assistance to
the individual to achieve more and grow
personally and socially and get better
educational and vocational development.

12. Exploring Self Perception And
Behavior
• To know the behavior of the client there are many tests and
other source of information through which accurate results can
be achieved. Cumulative Record helps to know all the basic
information of the client including his family background and
educational settings. Questionnaire tests can be administer
according to the need of the counseling process, rating scale
can be used for the behavior of the client, case study is also a
very important element for some critical and emotionally
disturbed client, and counselor could also make some
observations on the client’s behavior during the session.
Interview is the most commonly used tool for counseling.
Through Autobiography counselor can get the details of
personal information, Family background, Personal history,
previous counseling experience & Client's current life setting etc

13. Decision Making
• This is the step in which gathered
information about the client is evaluated to
find the best solution of the client’s problem.
For Decision making all the relevant
information is gathered and arranged
according to the priority of actions. Then the
effectiveness of the information used is
analyzed. Appropriate Choice of decision and
solution’s are made according to the
importance of action.

14. Plan Of Action
• Plan of action is a step to achieve desired goal. To
obtain the desired result the client is meant to do
what is planned through the counseling session with
the counselor. This step is very specific it only tells the
client how to maintain and made necessary
modification in his behavior. Plan of action must not
be complex it should be simple and specific to achieve
the goal for successful development. For example; a
client should not be told to go through several steps
to implement the action. All the details and other
information must be discussed during the decision
making step.

15. Follow Up
• The process of counseling is a continuous
process; it does not end with the counseling
session, it proceeds with the implementation of
the plan of action and evaluation of results.
After the counseling process, counselor should
encourage the clients as he implements on the
action that is planned in the counseling session.
Counselor should make observation on the
actions of the client and make some changes if
necessary to make the plan successful through
which client can achieve his goals.

16. Termination
• The Termination Stage is the final stage of the
counseling process, but it is as important as the initial
stage of counseling. The counselor discusses the
whole process of termination with his client. If the
solution is found then the process is terminated, but
it depends on the counselee' if he is satisfied with the
whole process he can stop or proceed it further. The
client can consult his counselor anytime he wants.

17. CAREER PLANNING
Career planning is a deliberate
process of knowing who you are
so that you can be sure of where
you want to go or what you want
to be at some defined point in the
future.

18. FIVE STEPS OF CAREER
PLANNING
• 1st Step: Self-Assessment
• 2nd Step: Explore Work/Career Options
• 3rd Step: Narrow Down List of Work/Career
Options
• 4th Step: Decide or Choose the Best Option
• 5th Step: Set a Career Goal

19. 1st Step: Self-Assessment
Knowing and understanding of self
better to know if you are in the right
job/career or you want to go to
another job.

20. • Attitude
• Interests
• Personality
• Needs
• Values
• Skills

21. 2nd Step: Work/Career Exploration
Matching and aligning what you want to do on
one hand, and with the various opportunities,
on the other.

22. Where to explore
• Look at opportunities within your
organization and its subsidiaries
• Look at career opportunities in other
organizations and in other industries
• Look at entrepreneurial and self employment
opportunities
• Look at jobs/careers of people you know of
those you read about or see

23. 3rd Step: Narrow Down List of
Work/Career Options
List down three to five career options that is
match with your interest, personality, needs,
values and skills, on one hand and the
opportunities and limitations, on the other.

24. 5 Career Options Sample
1. Field engineer or IT Specialist
2. Pursue graduate
3. School instructor
4. Hardware business owner
5. Company Manager

25. Kinds of Career Paths
• Steady State
– requires a life long commitment
to one career and is characterized
by a steady improvement in
knowledge and skills.

26. • Linear
- constant upward
mobility in which
there is a steady
increase in power,
responsibilities over
the work of others,
and financial rewards.

27. • Transitory
- constant seeking for variety
or independence. Jobs tend to
be short term and mobility is
generally lateral.

28. • Spiral
- regular changes, usually every
five or seven years. Mobility is
usually lateral, and may be
initially downward.

29. 4th Step: Decide or Choose the Best
Option
This step will let you choose the best from
among the list of 3-5 options.
– Description of your ideal job
– Personal Mission Statement
– Job Requirements or Qualifications

30. 5th Step: Set a Career Goal
This process will give you focus
and it will
motivate you to overcome
obstacles that
will keep you from
achieving your goal.

31. What makes a goal good?
1. Specific
2. Measurable
3. Attainable
4. Relevant
5. Time-bound
6. Action-oriented

32. Barriers to Goals and Plan
Self-imposed or psychological barriers
• Negative self-image
• Negative attitude (bitterness,
selfishness, rebellion, crab mentality
etc.)
• Negative emotions (anxieties or fears)

33. • Victim mentality (feeling of
incapacity)
• Intrapersonal conflicts (torn
between two or more values)
• Personality traits (indecisiveness,
aggressiveness, competitiveness)
• Habits (procrastination, cramming)
• Negative thought against other
people (biases and prejudice)

34. Prepare for setbacks and successes;
ensure your career
1. Keep an ongoing file of all your
accomplishments.
2. Be prepared for any contingency by
maintaining an updated resume.
3. Sharpen your communication skills.
4. Build a network.
5. Become indispensable or close to it.
6. Remember that professional education
and self-development are never-ending.
7. Prepare for an alternative career.
8. Work on being pleasant and courteous.

35. The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to
taste experience to the utmost, to reach out
eagerly and without fear for newer and richer
experiences.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

36. Summary: 5 Stages of Career
Counseling
Stage 1: Initiation
Stage 2: Exploration
Stage 3: Decision-Making
Stage 4: Preparation
Stage 5: Implementation

37. Student Counselling Form

42. Thank you
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