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Guidance and Counseling

Notes (ii) The basic aim of placement is to facilitate the process of meeting the needs of ______ and
prospective ................ .
(iii) The guidance worker aware of ................ of the world of work through group guidance.
(iv) The ................ phase of placement services, deals with the actual placement of the individual
on the job with the help of school records.

5.4 Follow-up Service: Meaning
A guidance worker who does not assess the progress made by his/her student is like the physician
who does not verify whether his/her patient has recovered or not.
Here, it becomes very essential in a guidance programme to learn the nature and extent of progress of
the student even after he leaves the school. This service does not only pertains to the study of
occupational aspect but also to other related aspects such as emotional and social adjustments.
For example, if a student has been counselled for social-emotional problem, after he/she leaves the
school, the guidance worker must do a follow-up to check how far he/she is able to cope up with
the new environment and what are the problems he/she is still facing.
Purpose of this Service

(i) It draws upon information from the former students regarding the extent of influence or
effectiveness of the school guidance programme.

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(ii) Based on the feedback obtained, make relevant changes in the school guidance programme.
The programme generally keeps contact with the students and drop-outs after leaving school. On
the basis of the experiences of former students, the guidance worker can formulate the future
programme for the present students, further, and thereby equip the remaining students with necessary
activities. The follow-up service has more relevance for the field of research. After receiving valid
information from the former students, the administrators can improve upon their services. Further,
employing this information, the educational institutions can conduct studies of the relationship
between the training given to these former students and how far the utilisation of the training was
made. Studies on the effectiveness, efficiency and desirability of the courses offered can also be
conducted.
The three steps that are dealt in a follow-up programme are :
(i) A systematic gathering of data from the alumni.
(ii) Interpretation and presentation of that data to all the concerned personnel, i.e. student, parent
and community.
(iii) Suggest a modified framework of educational programme based on the findings made.

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