Careers Counselling - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Careers Counselling Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

Learn to advise others on their career choices. This accredited Level 3 course will develop your understanding of factors affecting career choices and planning, and your ability to help others plan and achieve career goals. The course is aimed at students who have prior experience or training in a related field such as counselling or social work, but will benefit anyone in their own career planning and development.

Starting or changing a career can be quite a challenge. Without help, a person can easily become discouraged or overwhelmed. If you want to help others (or yourself) make sound career decisions and set realistic career goals, this course will set you on that path. Careers Counselling involves more than just finding work for people.

Among other things, Careers Counselling may involve helping people:

• identify the best job for their skills and interests
• find any job to meet their personal and financial needs
• find a better or more appropriate job for their situation
• achieve job satisfaction through appropriate choices
• plan and cope with career changes
• better adapt to the workplace
• improve their potential for advancement in the workplace
• identify new career possibilities when circumstances change.

To be able to assist a person to understand:

• the diverse nature of employment opportunities
• the requirements for success in different types of jobs
• reasons that people hire and fire employees
• workplace conditions including contract law, industrial relations systems, health and safety issues, ethics useful contacts among employers, government departments, funding bodies, professional associations, industry experts, etc
• factors that hinder or promote a person’s job-seeking effectiveness
• trends in the local job market.

A good Careers Counsellor must be impartial and objective.

Learn more about the employment industry and about ways to help others (or yourself) develop and pursue a career path that is both achievable and appropriate.

Career Counselling is also a valuable addition to your teaching, counselling, management, life-coaching, or community services qualification. It can improve parents' ability to help their children choose suitable career paths, or student's ability to plan their own career or career change.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure: Careers Counselling BPS202

There are 10 lessons:

1. Introduction - Scope & Nature of the Industry

• Definitions: career, careers counselling, counselling
• Broad employment options
• Services offered in the employment industry
• Assumptions about career counselling practices
• Cross cultural careers counselling

2. Nature of Careers - What is a career, what makes it successful?

• Introduction
• Elements of career building and job seeking
• Factors contributing to career success
• Realistic expectations
• Range of options
• Persistence
• Case study

3. Careers Advice Resources - Brochures, Publications, Web Sites

• Employer considerations: qualifications, experience,personality, age, adaptability, productivity, etc
• Case study

4. Career Services - Where can people get help (Social Services, Work Experience, Education)

• Career counselling services
• Careers and vocational guidance
• Vocational planning
• Setting goals
• Job seeking support, Job seeking strategies
• Other services

5. Developing Counselling Skills

• 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 clients predictive ability

6. Conducting a Counselling Session

• Why 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

7. Counselling Students and School Leavers (with little work experience)

• Understanding youth
• Career counselling for adolescents
• Assisting indecisive teenagers
• Career counselling for students
• Giving advice on study
• Choosing a course
• Workshops for students
• Workshops for university students
• Resources for counselling students

8. Counselling Adults (inexperienced or facing career change)

• Identifying adult needs The training program
• Advice and support during job hunting
• Course of action
• Career changing
• Easiest paths to career change
• Challenging path to career change
• Starting a business
• Case study
• Writing a business plan

9. Job Prospecting

• Ways of finding work
• Supporting clients decisions
• Prospecting for work
• Tips on getting a job
• Writing resumes (CV's)
• Preparing for a job interview

10. Nurturing and growing a career once it has started

• Getting a job is only the first step in a career
• Self management for business people
• Marketing and pricing
• Case study
• Advising clients about career advancement

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Counsellors, psychologists, teachers

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

Career Counselling is also a valuable addition to your teaching, counselling, management, life-coaching, or community services qualification. It can improve parents' ability to help their children choose suitable career paths, or student's ability to plan their own career or career change.