So who's a career therapist?
This article will be useful:
● those who have never learned what career guidance is;
• those who are looking into this area;
● Those who work as a professional.
We talk about career guidance in 10 simple points:
1. A professional is a specialist who helps other people become happy in the profession.
2. Vocational guidance is booming as people think about new earning opportunities during periods of instability. And after the pandemic, we all started thinking about the value of our lives and how we live them.
3. A professional today works not only with teenagers, but also with adults. And more and more adult clients. The development of online education opens up unlimited opportunities for changing professions at any age.
4. The modern professional has many regular clients. New professions and opportunities emerge every year. And in the 21st century, renewing your profession and career and going to a professional therapist like a dentist is normal.
5. The first task of a career therapist is to help his client “know himself” and answer the question “What will make me happy at work?” By the way, these answers for each of us change over the course of our lives.
6. Therefore, at the first stage, the professional therapist uses different tools to diagnose the interests, desires and needs of the client. Here and now. And it's not just tests. But also special questions, reflective tasks, work with images, etc.
7. After diagnosis, the professional selects and recommends the profession to the client. And he certainly doesn't need to memorize all the professions. But it is important to be able to quickly find information about professions “under the client”. And understand the trends and demand for different directions.
8. The professional knows and knows how to “overcome” psychological barriers and erroneous perceptions of clients in a choice situation (for example, a prejudice about a certain calling to be found or a fear of “making a mistake”).
9. A professional is not a wizard. He cannot change another person’s life for him. If a professional is afraid to make a mistake because “the other person’s life depends on my decision,” then ... he seems to think he is a wizard. And with that, he should work on supervising his colleagues. Fortunately, the life of professional clients depends only on them.
10. Professionals earn differently. Someone sells their time by the hour. And very inexpensive. A good professional takes a fee not for the hours spent by him and his client on diagnosis. And for the result, your recommendations. And good referrals can be very expensive, even if your client has only spent an hour with you. Who you become in career guidance is up to you.