Career Counselling

Miscelaneous

100

Name the top 3 sites potential employers look at when recruiting

Facebook, Google, Linked In Cleaning up and updating your social media profiles is becoming more important than ever. Not only do employers check up on candidates online presence, but 87% of human resources departments now go online to headhunt and search out job candidates.

200

What is job accommodation and what population is it intended to serve?

An approach in which job tasks, and job sites are modified to make them accessible to workers with disabilities

300

“Life is a business. Granted, there ought to be time in everybody’s routine to play, to amuse oneself with games, and to divert attention from the serious aspects of the business of living. Nevertheless, life is not a game; it is a business that must be toiled at and attended to. “ This is an example of the use of?

Metaphor

400

What non-merit based social factors help to determine the jobs and other financial resources that one may accumulate?

discrimination, social capital, inheritance, privilege, unequal opportunities for quality public education, luck, happenstance

500

What theory is a new of way looking at human behaviour that has emerged from economics, mathematics, biology and physics? This theory views human as complex dynamic systems.

Chaos Theory

Statistics

100

__ % of Fortune 500 companies use a psychometric personality test to place new applicants.

80%

200

When companies employ the majority of their workforce outside their home countries, it is a result of economic __________

globalization

300

Individuals born in the USA between 1957 and 1964 have already held an average of __ jobs from age 18 to age 38.

10

400

Two major processes affecting social contexts are _________ and offshoring

outsourcing

500

Less than __ % of American families with children living in the home have a full-time employed father and a full-time homemaker mother.

5%

Asessment

100

The Strong Inventory has ______ reliability and ______ validity. (high/low)

high, high.

200

The MBTI has ______ reliability and ______ validity. (high/low)

high, high

300

Name 3 ethical considerations when using the MBTI

1) Test administrators should use language that does not label types as "good" or "bad, this can skew results as well as cause harm to clients 2) It is unethical and in many cases illegal to require job applicants to take the Indicator if the results will be used to screen out applicants. 3) Do not over generalize results - does not mean that client should avoid applying to certain jobs, nor imply that all people of a certain type behave the same way

400

What 4 dimensions of personality does the MBTI measure?

Energy Orientation (Extraversion/Introversion), Data Gathering (Sensing/Intuition), Decision Making (Thinking/Feeling), Sense of Structure (Judging/Perceiving)

500

What dimensions of personality does the Strong Interest Inventory examine? Name 5

What is four main categories of scales: General Occupational Themes (GOTs), Basic Interest Scales (BISs), Personal Style Scales (PSSs), and Occupational Scales (OSs). An additional category called administrative indexes.

Therapeutic Needs

100

What is career counselling?

Knowledge of self, knowledge of vocational demands and availability, using reasoning to develop relations between these two concepts.

200

How do life stages, and/or life events affect clients? Give an example

During transitioning periods of life, there is different expectations from society and family, as well as introspective reassessment of our personal values. Life stages - Adolescence, early adulthood, late adulthood, senior years Life events - birth of child, illness, divorce, children going to college

300

What are some models of therapy that have been integrated with career counselling? (name 3)

1)Narrative 2)REBT 3)ACT 4)Psychodynamic

400

How does career counselling overlap with traditional therapy? (4 points)

1)clients are allowed to find their own unique solution to a problem, even if the problem being faced is a common one 2) conflicts of who they are vs. expectations from others 3)feelings that stem from parental values which have been internalized, so that people try to conform to or live up to parental expectation 4)Research shows that clients of career counselling were more satisfied with the experience when both personal and career issues were addressed 5)Therapeutic alliance correlated with positive outcomes 6)Ethical considerations incorporated i.e. feminist, multicultural, socioeconomic, family of origin influences

500

What are some common problems that clients bring to career counselling (name 5 types with examples)

Work-life balance Decision-making problems Implementing a decision Change in organisations Performance related Relationship problems Expression and repression of creativity

Diversity

100

According to Hepner (2013), worldwide and throughout history, what is the most salient predictor of virtually all aspects of ones’ work and career development?

Gender

200

Who were the original career services first operationalized by Frank Parsons in 1909 originally intended to serve?

European immigrants

300

Give an example of both direct and indirect discrimination faced by LGBTQ people in the workplace.

Direct: anti gay jokes, homophobic comments Indirect: Assumed heterosexuality, any micro aggression

400

What is the word for a society in which one advances because of individual merit?

meritocracy

500

Explain what is meant by the middle class bias in the field of career counselling.

A central tenant of most career counselling approaches is the assumption that individuals have the economic means to pursue their career interests and goals.