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¶ … milestones in my career as well as identify principle actions and advice that assisted me in moving forward in my career. People often are not aware of the difficulties that entail being a career counselor. It requires a myriad of skills of which take time to learn and master. The first major milestone I discuss is the utilization of the Myers-Briggs Test. This test not only helped me identify options for people career-wise, but also categorize them in a way that was easy to discuss and examine.
My next major milestone involved the four phases of assessment. It takes time to evaluate and understand where the client is intellectually and emotionally. By assessing things like education level, preferences, it makes it easier to understand where that person can take their career in relation to their current skills or plans for future skill development. Everything takes time to fully grasp and these phases make it easier to make the process faster and easier to perform.
The third and final major milestone involves understanding a person's background and his or her interactions so he or she understand what may be preventing them from getting the results they want and/or the career they want. If someone experience personal stress at home or at work, in school, it can severely affect their career choices and career options. By understanding this, it helped...
It is not an easy task because everyone is different and some require more help than others. However, being a career counselor is a rewarding experience because everyone needs at one point or another guidance in choosing a career. Careers, employment in general are one of the most important aspect to living a healthy, adult life. A quarter of an adult's life is spent working. So why not make it enjoyable? That is where a career counselor can help someone make the right choices to make sure the career chosen becomes an enjoyable experience and not just another paycheck.
The first major milestone in my career is when I recognized how important vocational instruments are. While people can use screening tools online to help them making decisions in regards to their careers, nothing can compare to when someone else evaluates that individual. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was created by two women, Katherine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. It is a multiple choice test that people take in order to see if they fit into one of sixteen personality types.
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From the list of personal dimensions of development produced by the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (Arredondo et al., 1996), gender is the dimension most neglected or ignored, in spite of the fact that gender intersects with all other dimensions across cultures (see Hansen, Gama, & Harkins, 2002). Whether internal or external, one major weakness is the need to motivate more counselor educators to value career counseling and to
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