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Guidance and Counseling

Notes 5.7 Summary

• The placement service makes an effort to help those students, secure employment, who are
either in school or those after they leave school. The school provides certain facilities through
which the employment needs of the students are met either through special placement personnel
or by integration services of the other guidance personnel.
• Techniques and Procedures of Guidance: (i) Who withdraw from the formal education before they
complete school (drop-outs); (ii) Who prefer part time work while going to school or may be
during the vacation or after school hours or during weekends; (iii) Who terminate formal
education after higher secondary level.
• The basic aim of placement is to facilitate the process of meeting the needs of both employer
and the prospective employee. The student must be placed only until the correct and appropriate
information regarding him/her has been obtained from the counselor or the incharge guidance
personnel.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Making Occupational Choice: This phase deals with the actual choice of an occupation.
• Placement: The fifth, phase of placement services deals with actual placement of the individual
on the job with the help of school records.
• Follow-up: The final phase of placement service is the follow-up or adjustment phase.
• 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 achieve the choice of job-oriented courses.
(v) To get admission in a college or professional institution or university.
• 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.
• 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.
• It draws upon information from the former students regarding the extent of influence or
effectiveness of the school guidance programme.
• 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.
• It is the review or systematic evaluation carried out to find out whether guidance service in
particular and educational programme in general satusfy the needs of the students. It has to be
observed to what extent have the students been able to achieve according to their abilities and

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