Career counseling has its primary purpose in helping you to research possible avenues of careers. Career Counseling helps you organize your ideas of different possible career options. The counselor determines your career interests, analyzes your skills, level of IQ and aptitude towards a particular vocation. Career counseling involves advising the person seeking such counseling to choose the right profession.

Career counseling methods usually consist of different activities which lead you acquire a vocation of your fit. This is executed by advising on development of personality, teaching them learning methods, planning a career and also helping in securing them a job. Career counseling uses different ways to help a person achieve the objective of getting into a suitable career:

• Counseling to clarify what goals are to be achieved
• Conduct activities suitable to a person and career
• Assess a person’s interest and abilities through tests
• Help choose a career
• Help understand the work a job entails
• Help develop resume writing skills
• Teach human relation skills
• Help in relieving stress in job, or due to loss of a job and advice methods of smoothly changing jobs.

In conducting career counseling it is important to use positive methods that appeal to the employee. Following are some tips on methods to use during the process of career counseling:

• Ask an applicant positive questions which are productive and useful in determining the needs
• Spend enough time to form a strong knowledge base about the abilities of your client
• Show due respect to the job seeker’s attitude and feelings and not be judgmental
• Do not cross examine and make the employee stressed
• Use simple language and explanations to help the employee understand better
• Help the employee develop their awareness of requirements in a chosen career
• Explain benefits and difficulties they may face in a career

Career counseling is available at many levels – schools, vocational institutes, training institutes, colleges, universities, rehabilitation centers, social communities and even at healthcare institutes. At school level career counseling proves to mould student to work towards goals for the future. Counseling develops the prevailing skills of the student and launches them in careers that they will definitely excel in. Some are private practices which may be available at a costlier price but providing excellent care on an individual basis.