Career development interventions 5th by spence niles and bowlsbey chapter 06

Career Development Interventions
5th Edition
Spence G. Niles and JoAnn E. Harris-Bowlsbey

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Chapter 6
Career Information
and Resources
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Jennifer Del Corso

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Relationship Between Data and
Decision Making
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Having reliable data is essential to career decision making.

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Data may be acquired from print sources, computer-assisted career guidance systems, websites, and/or people.

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The counselor’s role is to assist clients/students to turn data into information.

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Types of Data Needed by Clients
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Descriptions of programs of study (post-secondary)

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Military programs

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Apprenticeships and internships

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Occupations

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Schools

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Private (proprietary) vocational-technical schools

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Public Community colleges

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Four-year colleges and universities

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Graduate schools

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Financial aid

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Jobs

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Barriers and Decision Styles
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Clients/students may have difficulty dealing with data

 because of physical, mental, or
emotional deficits.
 because of their usual decision-making

style.
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Planful
Agonizing
Impulsive
Intuitive

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Compliant
Delaying
Fatalistic
Paralytic

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Client Information and Diversity

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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
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Some students of clients who seek career information may need assistance in the form of (but not limited to):

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One on one assistance

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Special software or hardware

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Avatars

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Language translation

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Assistance reading (reading disability)

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Screen readers or related software (visual impaired)

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Client Roles
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Complete the data-gathering homework given by counselors.

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Apply data collected to personal career choices and engage in activities, aided by the counselor.

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Assume responsibility for their own decision making.

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Counselor Roles
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Select sources for data that are of high quality.

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Make sources of data known to clients and assist them to know how to use them.

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Assist clients to make meaningful use of data.

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Other Methods of Collecting Data
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Career days

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Mentoring

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Internships

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Job Shadowing

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Part-time jobs

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Ways to Organize Occupations
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Holland’s system (R, I, A, S, E, C)

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ACT’s World-of-Work Map clusters and job families

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O*Net Classification system

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U.S. Department of Education clusters

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Career Centers
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A career center houses all the resources (videos, journals, books, assessment instruments, and a variety of software programs) in one physical place.

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The career center should:

o be centrally located.
o be user-friendly.
o contain computers for use of software and
websites.
o have equipment for viewing videos.
o be staffed with trained persons such as
Career Development Facilitators (CDF)
o have materials organized by type, content,
career planning step, or life role.

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Virtual Career Centers
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May include:

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assessment

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linkages to websites that provide data resources

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cybercounseling assistance

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Helping Clients Turn Data into
Information
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The most difficult and most essential role of the counselor is to assists students and clients as they make sense of all the data

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Career data and assessment results should not be interpreted as “right/wrong”

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Trained career counselors should help students process the information they receive following NCDA Ethical Guidelines

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