Basics of Counselling and Career Counselling For Beginners

Counselling is a process of professional help by experts for individuals to understand themselves, to gain awareness, to identify problems and to produce solutions, to make decisions, to be in harmony and healthy communication with the environment. Career Counselling is specifically focused on a person’s career opportunities, most often provided in educational, work, and some community settings. It also may have the specific goal of enabling a person to change the direction of his or her career. The counselling will take account of an individual’s preferences, intelligence, skill sets, work values, and experience. Such counselling is offered to groups as well as individuals. This course includes video modules as well as and reading materials. This course has been carefully designed to provide you with all the information required about basics of counselling and career counselling.

You will find much more in this course.

What it takes

To do this work effectively demands:

§ High level listening skills

§ Excellent communication skills

§ Ability to establish relationships with students very quickly

§ Being impartial and non-judgmental, with the ability to see issues from the student’s point of view

§ A genuine interest in students and their future

§ Analytical and research skills

§ Confidence with IT and social media for career search

§ Flexibility

§ Adaptability

§ Patience

Outcome 1: Helping students plan their future

Outcome 2: Providing careers education and guidance

Outcome 3: Being well-informed and confident to provide webinars/seminars at schools