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Guidance and Counseling

Notes summer vacation. Second-year students also have two such experiences—one before
Christmas, and the other during the month before Easter.

Leaders in the field address the students, and visits to wholesale and retail establishments
are arranged. Social situations are planned in which the students can learn how to conduct
themselves in similar situations when they are working in the field.

20.4.1 Job Placement
Assuming that an individual has received adequate training for participation in a vocation which
he has selected intelligently, the factors or adjustment on the job include the following:
1. Employment possibilities
2. Wages and hours
3. Physical conditions of the job environment
4. Supervisor-worker relations
5. Worker-worker relations
At each step of the way, from placement to resignation or retirement, the worker probably can
benefit from indirect or direct guidance from qualified persons.
Job-seeking includes one or more of the following :
1. Random shopping around
2. Reading newspaper and magazine advertisements
3. Asking friends and acquaintances
4. Consulting commercial, government or school employment agencies.
5. Taking civil service or other examinations.
One of the functions of a school’s guidance staff, especially on the secondary or higher level, is to
offer guidance toward job-getting. Whether or not the school maintains a placement office, a young
person should receive help in locating a job and in preparing himself to apply for it.
Unless employment is based on a formal examination system, such as in civil service, the applicant
should know what to do about the following common practices :
1. Writing a letter of application
2. Filling in application blanks, questionnaires, or interest blanks
3. Preparing accurate substantiating data concerning himself and his training
4. Supplying names for formal recommendation or letters of recommendation
5. Being interviewed by the employer
6. Giving a practical demonstration of his skill and knowledge
The following list of 50 ways to avoid successful job placement might be interesting to counselors as
they help their students.

20.4.2 Work Experience as a Method as a Method of Vocational Guidance
Work experience is the student’s exposure to work in an occupation before he begins a full-time job.
Five types of such experience are recognised :
(1) Work that is done in some project undertaken for the benefit of the school, usually without

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