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Guidance and counseling

Notes (2) Helping an individual to solve his educational vocational social and personal problems, and
adjustment.
(3) Candidates are admitted into various causes through interview.
(4) Certain physical defects in individuals, that can not be found through psychological tests,
can be as certained through interview.
(5) Interview helps in removing probable causes of various problems.
• The following preparatory steps are necessary for interview.
(1) During the interview, the first interviewer should establish a friendly rapport with the
candidate, element of intimacy in a this rapport helps a candidate in answering questions
without hesitation and fear.
For striking a friendly rapport, Davison and Robinson have made the following suggestions.
(a) Compassion
(b) Confidence
(c) Approval
(d) Humour :
(2) Personal reference : To clarify his points, the interview should give instances of his personal
experience
(i) Asking Questions
(ii) Threat
(iv) Informal Start
(v) Permissiveness
(vi) Equal time for Conversation

• Use Motivating Questions
• Proper Use of Silence
• Limited Information
• Understanding Candidates Attitude
• Control Over Interview
• Some times an interviewer, propelled by his own interest, drags on the interview to such a
length that the candidate starts feeling bored. Hence, during an interview care must be taken
to ensure as to how to end the interview.
• Frankness
• Humour
• Limited information
• No Dominance

• Process of guidance is also incomplete without interview. It is widely used in individual,
social, educational and vocational spheres of guidance.
• The method of interview has the following uses
(i) This method is more focused on problems and attainment of objectives.
(ii) It is easy to use.
(iii) It helps is promoting introspection in a candidate.

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