Decision Making Career Counseling tasks

Question 1

Which is the fundamental principle?

Answer 1

Clients are encouraged to find their own unique solution to a problem, even if that problem is very common.

Professional counselors recognize that needs,
expectations, and career opportunities are influenced by factors such as gender, social class, race, disability, age

Question 2

Problems related to life - School graduates

Answer 2

• what will I do next?
• transition from school to the outside world
• identity formation and meaning of life

Question 3

Problems related to life - 20s

Answer 3

• acquisition of identity
• Testing different jobs
• “First professional worries and sadness”
• Frustration about values and perceptions prevailing in the work environment
• results of educational choices made at 15 or 16
• social adjustment
• Creating a CV and job search techniques

Question 4

Problems related to life - 30s

Answer 4

-More control in life and career
-Review of commitments
-At this stage people want to be settled in their career, in a relationship and in a certain way of life
-Clients who do not comply with this expectation, either
by choice or for any other reason, may have an
additional feeling of failure, which they bring to
vocational counseling

Question 5

Problems related to life - middle age

Answer 5

-Lack of completeness (retraining, financial earnings, personal commitments)
-Gap between initial ambitions and achievements
-Evaluation of the skills, self-confidence recovery, basic
career skills

Question 6

Problems related to life - age 45 and over

Answer 6

• Dismissal/fired
• New interests, renewal of old ones interests
• Understanding or taking final decisions

Question 7

Problems - personal life and work

Answer 7

-How work harmonizes with the rest of life
-We encourage the client to decide on the balance
between work and personal life
-This support can be for a long time
-Utilization of free tim

Question 8

Problems - Decision making

Answer 8

-Some clients claim that they do not know themselves:
-I do not know strengths and weaknesses
-I think I have self-knowledge, but I need help and guidance
-Pressure from third parties to follow specific
professional direction
-Fear of failure
-non-responsibility in decision making
-conflict between professional and family needs
-I identify, recognize, discuss the problem

Question 9

Internal barriers

Answer 9

Emotions or beliefs that block vocational developmen

Question 10

Other probles in decision making

Answer 10

-Unrealistic professional ambition
-Feelings of inferiority due to past experiences of
rejection
-Discrimination in the labor market on the grounds of
sex, nationality, disability or social class
-Counselors need to help clients externalize feelings of rejection experiences
-Investigating the practical and emotional consequences of personal difficulties (mourning or divorce)

Question 11

Probs by the organizations

Answer 11

-The person to reapply for a job he / she holds, due to 
reorganization
-Technological changes
-Staff reduction
-Change of boss
-Business closure

Question 12

Performance related probs

Answer 12

• Dismissal
• Employee stagnation
• Someone “sidelined” the promotion
• Criticism of “significant others”
• Loss of efficiency motivation
• Similar feelings like being fired

Question 13

Relationship probs

Answer 13

-Continuous deterioration in business relationships
-An employee who finds it difficult to accept the
authority of a particular manager
-Someone who has difficulty communicating with anyone
in a position of power
-A person with low self-esteem who finds it difficult to accept criticism
-A person unhappy with his boss due to lack of guidance
-Someone with an unusually strong sense of competition
-Jealousy from colleagues
-vocational counseling may require personal counseling
skills
-Referral to a specially trained counselo