Description
Provide career counseling and vocational guidance to students and adults, helping them clarify goals, build employability skills, and connect with education, training, and employment opportunities.
- • Maintain accurate and confidential client career records in compliance with laws and organizational policies.
- • Provide brief crisis intervention and referrals when employment or academic issues disrupt career plans.
- • Encourage clients to explore careers, pursue learning opportunities, and persist with challenging goals.
- • Provide information on degree and certificate programs, admissions, financial aid, apprenticeships, and training pathways.
- • Deliver workshops and classes on career planning and job search skills.
- • Conduct follow-up sessions to determine whether client needs have been met.
- • Prepare reports on client progress, services delivered, and program outcomes.
- • Plan and conduct career orientation programs and group sessions for new students or participants.
- • Assess needs for supports such as financial aid, rehabilitation, childcare, transportation, or additional training, and make referrals.
- • Teach career development techniques, including job search strategies, resume writing, networking, and interview skills.
- • Address community groups, faculty, employers, and partners to explain available career services.
- • Compile and analyze labor market, occupational, and education data to guide client decisions.
- • Provide resources to faculty and staff to help learners identify and pursue internships and employment.
- • Review academic records to align course plans with career and program requirements and write letters of recommendation.
- • Recommend degree, training, or certification programs based on interests, aptitudes, and assessments.
- • Provide workplace readiness programming, including professionalism, communication, and conflict resolution.
- • Coordinate accommodations and accessible career services for clients with disabilities; connect to assistive technology resources.
- • Interview clients to obtain employment history, education, skills, and career goals, and to identify barriers to employment.
- • Establish and supervise peer mentoring, career ambassador, or peer-coaching programs.
- • Refer qualified clients to employers, recruiters, or employment services for job placement.
- • Sponsor career-related clubs, student organizations, and competitions.
- • Collaborate with parents or guardians, faculty, administrators, and service providers to support career development and resource needs.
- • Evaluate abilities, interests, and personality traits using assessments, records, interviews, and professional sources.
- • Identify personal or family problems that affect employability and refer clients to appropriate mental health or social services.
- • Advise on course and program selection, registration, credential pathways, school-to-work transitions, and career planning.
- • Collaborate with faculty and administrators to develop, evaluate, and revise career programming and curriculum integration.
- • Observe clients during workshops, mock interviews, and experiential learning to evaluate readiness and professional behavior.
- • Attend meetings, professional conferences, and training workshops, and serve on committees.
- • Plan and promote career programs and events such as employer panels, work experience programs, job fairs, and career workshops.
- • Uphold ethical guidelines and privacy standards in counseling practice.
- • Build and maintain employer relationships to create internship, co-op, and employment opportunities.
- • Participate in outreach, recruitment, and intake for career services and training programs.
- • Train, supervise, and mentor career services staff and interns.
- • Counsel individuals and groups to help them address personal, social, or career barriers affecting their vocational goals.
- • Refer clients to external counseling, training, or community support services.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
