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Guidance and Counseling

Notes Personality evaluation and job analysis are guidance activities that cannot be achieved quickly or
even completely. Experience as a worker on the job of course, is the practical test of the requirements
of the work and of one’s fitness for it. Many individuals do not make their final choice until after
they have been graduated from college or have experimented with various types of occupational
activities.
20.3.3 Specific Techniques
Self-evaluation in the college as teachers help the student to appreciate the value of possessing
certain desirable attitudes and behaviour characteristics, to recognise the extent to which he possesses
these, and to attempt to make whatever changes in himself are needed for achieving an improved
relationship with his home and school associates.
As the individual continues his education in high school and perhaps college, his teachers and
counselors should encourage the continuance of his self-appraisal as an individual and as a possible
worker in a specific vocation. The method of self-evaluation includes considering the findings of :
1. An honest self-analysis, preferably with the aid of prepared lists of questions.
2. An objective analysis of the individual by teachers and parents as a result of their observation
of his behaviour.
3. A scientific or semi-scientific analysis of the individual by experts through the administration
of appropriate tests, scales, or inventories.
As complete knowledge as possible concerning vocational opportunities and job requirements and
conditions is necessary for an intelligent and satisfactory selection of a vocation. To make this
information available, and to stimulate young people toward the development of interest in vocations
for which they are personally fitted and for work in which there is or will be a need, constitute
important phases of guidance in this area.
Counselors need to be thoroughly acquainted with
(1) those vocational opportunities that are more or less permanent,
(2) those vocations in which there may be opportunities at the time of the counseling but for
which the need may be declining, and
(3) those vocations which in the future may offer increasingly excellent opportunities for the well
qualified.
Information about vocations can be presented to young people in many ways, either in group or
individual situations. These ways include :
1. Visits to places of employment,
2. Motion pictures and film strips,
3. Radio and television,
4. Use of graphic materials,
5. Reference to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, The, United States Census, and other government
aids,
6. Home-room activities, quiz contests, and guessing games,
7. School assemblies and dramatizations,
8. Participation in out-of-class activities, such as school management and school or community
clubs,
9. Career conferences,
10. Study of the lives of successful businessman,

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