Career Counseling

• It is the process of helping an individual

come up with a personal career plan by
collecting, collating and evaluating various
information about the self and the world
of work to help the client meet his/her life
goals and take the necessary steps to
implement the plan.
 first report on vocational guidance

 Frank Parsons, known as the

Father of the Guidance Movement

Director of the Vocational Bureau

of Boston, Massachusetts.
In the Philippines
first mention about vocational guidance in a
report made by the Director of Education

information relative to opportunities in

various
industries was compiled

used in advising students as to the kind of

work they might pursue

These functions were left to the teachers.

Dr. Paul Monroe, head of an educational survey group,

surveys of occupations be made in every community

and province

 kinds of work that would profitably developed

 the number of workers
 the amount of wages paid
 chances for advancement
students who have the capacity
for doing a particular kind of
work

all in order that every worker would perform the kind

of job for which he is best adapted and properly
trained
curricula and procedures organized to explore
the different aptitudes, interests and abilities of
the students;

 through school records, the capacity of a

student
should be discovered;

through counseling, all facts could be used in

so far as vocational and educational decisions
are made by the students, the parents and the
teachers.
principals be required to give vocational
guidance to all classes graduating from the
seventh grade

Batangas High School introduced guidance

first in the fourth year and then in the
seventh grade
“Opportunities for Seventh
Grade Graduates” booklets
were distributed among
the members of the
graduating class
emphasis was shifted to the
problem of placement

graduates of secondary schools

found it difficult to secure
employment
224 graduates of vocational schools were given
placement through the Placement Department of
the Division of Vocational Education

Another placement service operated by the

Bureau of Education helped secondary
normal graduates.
Philippine Vocational Guidance Association
and the Rotary Club of Manila prepared
papers on the various professions,
vocations, or occupations

papers were distributed free to

schools
General Type A curriculum tried in Batangas
and Capiz High Schools

new curriculum provided exploratory courses

during the second year and the specialized
vocational courses the following years

includes
 Automotive Work  Woodworking
 Electricity  Graphic Arts
 Music  Child Care
 Home and Family Nutrition
1. Very High Turn-out
of Shifters in
College

Students enter college

undecided and
unprepared
Wrong Perceptions

students tend to enroll in more

popular courses because of
stereotyping, without
thoroughly thinking about the
course, their ability to pursue it,
and the job opportunities that
went along with it.
Students enroll in „more
popular‟ courses because:

 Students get the impression that there are

a lot of opportunities connected with these
courses after they graduate.

 Students believe that just because people

they know in the same field make much money,
so will they.

 Colleges feed on the trend of enrollment

and they continuously strengthen and promote
their
programs.
reasons for this significant drop
according to Roger Bartholomew

 financial problems
 problems arising from
irresponsible behavior like early
parenthood
 and mainly, the students being
unprepared for college because they had
poor high school background and/or they
were not properly oriented while they were
still in high school about what course they
should take.
According to a high school guidance coordinator

 the bad thing that happens in

career orientations is basically
school-selling and promotion of
courses and the courses that they
promote are those that their
institutions are known for.

The not-so popular courses

are left out.
 Overconcentration of
graduates on few degree
courses leads them to
compete for very limited
jobs upon graduation. In
the process, thousands are
forced to accept jobs for
which they were not trained
for.
Projected labor needs, both domestically and
overseas, from the DOLE, with projected
salary scales;

A chart matching degrees, tech/voc skills

and other qualifications with jobs and career
areas, to be supplied by DOST, TESDA and
CHED;

Career Aptitude Tests (up-to-date and

aligned to Philippine and international
careers) that can be administered both
manually and by computer in ALL schools
around the country for ALL students.
An annual two-day program for all
current designated career counselors
showing them how to access and use
the statistics compiled from DOLE, how
to keep up-to-date with career trends,
how to share this information with their
students and how to administer and
interpret career aptitude tests.
micro imperatives that need to be put in
place by school principals, counselors and
teachers

Each school and college to have one

designated career counselor for every
100 junior and senior students;

Each student to receive an absolute

minimum of 1 hour of individual,
confidential career counseling in the
junior and senior years;
Each school to provide the opportunity for an
absolute minimum of one in-school event and one
extra-mural event directly related to careers (e.g. visit
to a call center, an airplane maintenance hanger, a
welding workshop, a semi-conductor plant, a career
counseling exhibit, a military training camp, etc.)

Career counseling to be focused not

just on students pursuing bachelors
degrees but on students with key
technical skills (electrician, plumber,
welder, carpenter, seaman, potter,
gardener, mechanic,panel beater, etc.)
Each student given tips on
gaining access to good career
advisory websites;

Post-graduation mapping of the

progress of high school and college
students.