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Unit 5: Services: Placement Service, Follow-up Service

5.2 Phases of Placement Service Notes

1. General Orientation: The guidance worker makes students aware of the characteristics of the
world of work through group guidance. The general character of the occupational life is
explained to them. Career conference of teachers, parents, students employers and successful
persons from different vocations are organised in the school to stimulate interest, give fuller
knowledge of vocational requirements and encourage students to avail themselves of the service
provided by the cocational guidance staff.
2. Orientation Towards Occupational Fields of Interest: The next step involved in vocational
placement is orientation towards some particular occupational field in which students are
interested.
3. Relating the Knowlege of the Self to the Knowledge of the World: In the third phase of
placement service, the student is helped to understand his own assets and limitations so for as
that occuptational field is concerned. He is enabled to understand his own interests and
aptitudes, and relate them to the occupational areas under study.
4. Making Occupational Choice: This phase deals with the actual choice of an occupation. The
counselor helps the individual in making a wise choice of the occupation from the occupational
field studied. The choice cannot be made unaided. Various guidance techniques and tools are
used by the counselor in assisting the individual in making and adequate occupational choice.
After a careful choice the individual is given training in that particular vocation.
5. Placement: The fifth, phase of placement services deals with actual placement of the individual
on the job with the help of school records.
6. Follow-up: The final phase of placement service is the follow-up or adjustment phase. This
step is taken to know in what way the individual is making progress on the job, what is the
level of adjustment reached and job satisfaction attained by the individual student.

5.3 Objectives of Placement Service

Objective of Placement
Placement is important service in the guidance programme.
(i) To situate himself in the proper scholastic track in the proper course.
(ii) To find out a proper place in the post-college or university or post-university environment.
(iii) To achieve proper choice of co-curricular activities available in college/university.
(iv) To get admission in a college or professional institution or university.
(v) To get part-time jobs, during working session and whole-time jobs after getting education and
training.
Procedure of Placement : Appropriate data from sending school, colleges and universities should
be collected and transmitted to receiving colleges, universities and prospective employers. Essentials
to make success of this service are : Close contacts with institutions of higher learning as well as
with personnel managers in business and industry, and co-ordination among teachers, guidance
workers, etc.
Importance of Placement : The service is useful to all types of students the normal the intellectually
gifted, the emotionally disturbed, the artistically talented, the mentally retarded, etc., to find their
appropriate place in an educational or vocational setting.
Self Assessment

1. Fill in the blanks :
(i) The placement services helps to the students at ................ and ................ for securing
employment.

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