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Vocational Counseling
This area is very much neglected in our education system although the ultimate aim of every education system is to produce vocational efficiency, capacity of livelihood, efficient citizen some of the most significant things which are coming in the way to achieve these golden goals is the projection of parents dreams through their child, lack of guidance, unawareness of his own potentialities and capabilities and many more neglected.
Counseling areas
• Successful transfer from school to working life.
• Entry requirement of vocations.
• Basis of choice of vocation: -
• A particular service that the individual can render to the society.
• Personal satisfaction in occupation.
• Aptitude for the work required.
• Techniques of analysis of occupational information.
• To assist him to secure such information about himself ,his abilities(g&sp),his interests and his power as he may need for wise choice
• To assist economically handicapped
• Facilities offered by various educational training and requirement for admission to them, the length of training offered and cost of attendance.
Counseling At elementary stage
• Love and respect for manual work
• Training in the use of hand.
• Good eye hand co ordination.
• Neat and systematic work.
• Orderly arrangement o f material.
• Spirit of cooperative work
• Sharing the gains with others
• Appraisal of ones own work
• God interpersonal relationship.
• A desire to do better work.
• Development of saleable skills.
Counseling At Secondary and Senior- secondary stage
• Helping people themselves.
• Helping people to know world of work--- adequate information about various jobs, skills and opportunities.
• To make a right choice
• Prepare them for entry into the vocation.
• To get suitable jobs in their chosen fields-placement service.
• To think seriously whether to go to college or not.
Counseling At college level
• Relate their studies to the vocation that would be open to them at the end of college.
• Make a detailed study of the careers, which they would like to pursue.
• Avenues of work and higher study.
• To know about the various programme of financial assistance----scholarships, fellowship.
Common characteristics \ mistakes in choosing a vacation
• Status of mental ability--high \ low \ balanced.
• Employment potential—limited good average.
• Posses essential skills\attained or not.
• Appropriate characteristics of personality.
• Required physical strength and endurance.
• Glamour of vocation.
• Due attention to its financial aspects.
• Already over flooded.
• Choose by parent’s wishes and ambitions.