Course overview
Understand Career Counselling
The Certificate in Career Counselling will give you the skills to help others grow, change, and manage their careers as professional career counsellors. Whether you are already a career counsellor, looking to find a role as one, or aiming to start your own career counselling business, this course will teach you the fundamentals of career counselling and help you to organise your own resources so that you are better able to help job seekers.
Recognition
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
Duration study load
- 6 Months Access | 100 hours
Study at your own pace – students generally complete one module per week.
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements or prerequisites to enrol on this course.
Course features
- Help people make sound career decisions and set career goals, to help them find meaningful employment.
- Distinguish successful from unsuccessful careers, and prepare for anticipated changes in the workplace.
- Identify and meet the needs of inexperienced adults or those facing career change.
- Describe the need to nurture and grow a career and plan for change.
- Role-play a counselling session to practise and evaluate your skills in helping a client with an issue
- Plan strategies to assist young and adult clients deal with common and important identified issues.
Professional recognition
Accredited by ICOES
Subjects
- Definitions: career, careers counselling, counselling
- Broad employment options
- Services offered in the employment industry
- Assumptions about career counselling practices
- Cross-cultural careers counselling
- Introduction
- Elements of career building and job seeking
- Factors contributing to career success
- Realistic expectations
- Range of options
- Persistence
- Case study
- Employer considerations: qualifications, experience, personality, age, adaptability, productivity, etc
- Case study
- Career counselling services
- Careers and vocational guidance
- Vocational planning
- Setting goals
- Job seeking support job seeking strategies
- Other services
- Key areas for career counselling
- Helping clients focus on reality
- Helping clients identify opportunities
- Helping clients consider all elements
- Overcoming resistance from clients
- Listening skills
- Questioning skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Essential reality checks
- Improving client’s predictive ability
- Why do people come to a career counsellor
- Strategies to develop trust
- A career counselling session
- Individuals who know the job they want
- Psychometric testing for individuals still choosing a career
- Types of psychological tests that may be used
- Referring people elsewhere
About The Career Academy
We're an internationally recognised online education provider, who partners with the industry to deliver you the latest and most up-to-date content. We have almost 15 years of experience in online education and help change the lives of over 20,000 students every single year.
- Upskill and be awarded a certificate of achievement to help you reach your potential & earn more.
- Flexible online learning so you can study whenever and wherever you want.
- Get free access to the career centre which will review and improve your CV to help you succeed.
- 83% of our graduates say our qualifications improved their ability to get a new job or promotion.
