Career Development Interventions

Fifth Edition

Chapter 6
Career Information and
Resources

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Relationship between Data and Decision
Making
• Having reliable data is essential to career decision making.
• Data may be acquired from print sources, computer-assisted
career guidance systems, websites, and/or people.
• The counselor’s role is to assist clients/students to turn data
into information.

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Types of Data Needed by Clients (1 of 2)
• Descriptions of programs of study (post-secondary)
• Military programs
• Apprenticeships and internships
• Occupations
• Schools
• Private (proprietary) vocational-technical schools
• Public Community colleges

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Types of Data Needed by Clients (2 of 2)
• Four-year colleges and universities
• Graduate schools
• Financial aid
• Jobs

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Barriers and Decision Styles

• Clients/students may have difficulty dealing with data

– because of physical, mental, or emotional deficits.
– because of their usual decision-making style.
▪ Planful
▪ Agonizing
▪ Impulsive
▪ Intuitive
▪ Compliant
▪ Delaying
▪ Fatalistic
▪ Paralytic
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Client Information and Diversity
• Clients may bring a myriad of diversity related issues to career
counseling requiring flexibility on the part of the counselor to
provide appropriate resources or accommodation.

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Assistance Obtaining Data for Those with
Disabilities
• Some students of clients who seek career information may
need assistance in the form of (but not limited to):
• One on one assistance
• Special software or hardware
• Avatars
• Language translation
• Assistance reading (reading disability)
• Screen readers or related software (visual impaired)

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Client Roles
• Complete the data-gathering homework given by counselors.
• Apply data collected to personal career choices and engage in
activities, aided by the counselor.
• Assume responsibility for their own decision making.

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Counselor Roles
• Select sources for data that are of high quality.
• Make sources of data known to clients and assist them to
know how to use them.
• Assist clients to make meaningful use of data.

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Other Methods of Collecting Data
• Career days
• Mentoring
• Internships
• Job Shadowing
• Part-time jobs

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Ways to Organize Occupations
• Holland’s system (R, I, A, S, E, C)
• Act’s World-of-Work Map clusters and job families
• O*Net Classification system
• U.S. Department of Education clusters

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Career Centers
• A career center houses all the resources (videos, journals, books, assessment
instruments, and a variety of software programs) in one physical place.
• The career center should:
▪ be centrally located.
▪ be user-friendly.
▪ contain computers for use of software and websites.
▪ have equipment for viewing videos.
▪ be staffed with trained persons such as Career Development
Facilitators (CDF)
▪ have materials organized by type, content, career planning step, or
life role.

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Virtual Career Centers
• May include:
• assessment
• linkages to websites that provide data resources
• cybercounseling assistance

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Helping Clients Turn Data into Information

• The most difficult and most essential role of the counselor

is to assists students and clients as they make sense of
all the data
• Career data and assessment results should not be
interpreted as “right/wrong”
• Trained career counselors should help students process
the information they receive following NCDA Ethical
Guidelines

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