Career Counseling Process
The career counseling process involves five linear steps:
Initiation
Establishing an effective counseling relationship
Determining current motivation for career counseling
Building relevance for career planning
Exploration
Help clients to implement aspects of their personal vision while simultaneously attending to issues of meaning and vocation
Formal assessments and occupational information sources
Information interviewing
Relational networking
Job shadowing
Decision-Making
Determine the most appropriate option from the alternatives that have been explored to this point.
Create a comfort with a normal level of ambiguity involved in the job search.
Implement formal decision making models.
Utilize “what if?” scenarios for appropriate alternatives.
Create a consequences matrix for top options.
Preparation
Plan the specific steps required to implement choices determined in decision-making process.
Develop an action plan
Create contract between counselor and client for agreed upon next steps.
Develop prerequisite skills and resources for implementation.
Implementation
Carry out the action plan
Develop support through nurturing facilitative relationships.
Develop systems for feedback and reward.
Magnusson, K. C. (1995). Five processes of career planning. Eric Digests. 95(65), EDO-CG.