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What is career counselling?

• The CCS Five Stage Model of Career Counselling

• The relationship between career and personal counselling

• Theories of career development and choice

Essential skills of counselling

• Counselling as the basis of career counselling

• Screening and contracting

• Active listening

• Summarising

• Envisioning

• Moving people beyond their blocks

• Making use of occupational information

• Setting objectives

• Action Planning

• Managing endings

Issues in career counselling

• Life stages

• Work-life balance

• Decision making

• Dealing with organisational change

• Performance related issues

The CCS Self Assessment Manual

• Getting the most out of the Self Assessment exercises

• The purposes and benefits of homework assignments

• Completion of exercises from sections of the

• CCS Self Assessment Manual

Using tests in career counselling

• Advantages and disadvantages of using tests in
  career counselling

• Training in two questionnaires

Transitions

• Emotional responses to change and the implications
  for career counselling

• Two models enabling more effective change management

Standards and Ethics

• The BAC Code & an ethical approach to career counselling

• Supervisory support

• Confidentiality

• Evaluation

• Self management

• Designing your own ethical career counselling service

Referral

• Managing the boundaries between career
  and personal counselling

• Resources for referral

Using occupational information

• Purposes and uses

• Factual and cultural information about work opportunities

• Informational interviewing

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