Chapter 8
Career Counseling Strategies and Techniques
Career Counseling Strategies and Techniques
This structured approach to counseling includes steps like problem identification, goal setting, and strategy selection.
What is the Trait-and-Factor approach?
(It helps clients identify their strengths and match them to careers using a step-by-step method.)
This free U.S. Department of Labor tool provides detailed job data.
What is O*NET?
It helps clients explore job outlooks, salaries, required skills, and more.
This is the first step in building a career program.
What is needs assessment?
It helps identify what the target population requires to succeed.
This national model guides school counseling programs.
What is the ASCA National Model?
It provides a framework for delivering comprehensive counseling services.
This is a center on most campuses where students can get career help.
What is a Career Services Center?
They provide resume help, internships, assessments, and more.
This term describes how counselors help clients see the link between values, skills, and goals.
What is career integration?
This means connecting different parts of a client’s identity into a meaningful career path.
This term describes the combination of paper, online, and personal sources to gather career information.
What is a blended career resource strategy?
Clients should use multiple sources to get accurate and full information.
This term refers to a written plan with goals, strategies, and timelines.
What is a logic model?
It shows how resources and activities will lead to the desired outcomes.
This K–12 counseling focus helps students learn about careers, interests, and strengths.
What is career awareness and exploration?
It introduces students to options and helps them plan early.
This tool helps students assess their interests, skills, and values.
What is a self-assessment inventory?
It allows students to learn more about what careers fit them.
These two types of counseling processes are often used in career counseling.
What are directive and non-directive?
Directive gives guidance and structure; non-directive lets the client lead and explore more.
This tool helps clients explore personal interests and matches them to careers.
What is the Holland Code (RIASEC)?
It helps identify career environments that match personality.
This type of evaluation measures whether a program achieved its goals.
What is outcome evaluation?
It checks the results of the program and if it made a difference.
This term describes working with parents, teachers, and community to support student success.
What is collaboration?
It strengthens the student’s support system.
This career challenge is common for first-generation college students.
What is limited access to mentorship or career networks?
They may lack role models or guidance in navigating careers.
This technique helps clients imagine their future as successful and fulfilled.
What is guided imagery or visualization?
This encourages clients to picture success and motivates them toward specific goals.
This acronym refers to using digital tools in career counseling.
What is ICT (Information and Communication Technology)?
ICT includes websites, apps, and software that enhance counseling.
This is a visual tool used in designing career program models.
What is a program flow chart?
It shows the steps and relationships between parts of the intervention.
This term refers to the unfair expectation that some students are not “college material.”
What is tracking bias?
It can limit opportunities based on stereotypes.
This model helps match students to jobs based on environment and personality.
What is Holland’s RIASEC model?
It classifies people and jobs into 6 types for better fit.
This career counseling method focuses on the client telling their own story and finding meaning.
What is narrative career counseling?
Clients explore personal stories to find patterns, strengths, and direction.
This tool can provide real-time updates about training programs and local labor demands.
What is a labor market information system (LMIS)?
LMIS offers data about job trends, helping clients make informed decisions.
This method gathers feedback during the program to improve it.
What is formative evaluation?
It allows changes while the program is still running.
This is a type of curriculum-based intervention that teaches job skills.
What is a career readiness lesson?
It prepares students for work through activities and knowledge.
This is a structured short-term experience in a career field for students.
What is an internship?
It provides real-world learning and builds a resume.