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Meaning:
According to Inter National Labour Organization ‘Vocational guidance’ is the assistance rendered by an individual to another in solving of problems related to his progress and vocational selection keeping in mind the individual’s specific abilities and their relations with his occupational opportunity.
It is a known fact that education should equip the individual to enter an occupation and be able to make a living. So vocational guidance/ counseling become an integral part of the education process. Hence education and counseling together are provided to both school and college going students.
During the end of the last century, Jessi B. Davis (1898)Detroit in 1898. A decade later Eli Weaver published a book called “Choosing a Career” in 1908. After that Frank Parsons started the Vocational Bureau of Boston and published a book on “Choosing a Vocation”. These reflect the early interest of educators and social workers in the vocational development of adolescents. started educational Career Counseling Center in
Need for vocational guidance:
- There has been a phenomenal growth of industries during recent times. This rapid industrialization implies a higher man power requirement. They recruit different types of personnel to carry out a variety of challenging and productive jobs. Every student aspires for getting a right job after successful completion of his studies.
- The students need to get adequate information about the job opportunities in the area of aptitude.
- They face many problems due to lack of adequate information about career growth, which match their interest, aptitude, vocational preparation.
- With limited information available through newspapers and employment advertisements, some students may be fortunate enough to get a job while others may not, which results in frustration.
- Vocational choices should be decided more on the individual’s ability, interest and aptitude rather than on parental aspirations alone.
- Lack of awareness of the self regarding confidence, perception of reality, self esteem, interests etc often leads to setting up of unrealistic and unachievable goals, leads to frustration in work situation.
An organized vocational guidance programme in the institute is of great help to meet these problems.
Objectives of vocational guidance:
To assist/ enable students
- To acquire knowledge of the characteristics, functions, duty requirements of occupations in which they are interested.
- To get relevant information about abilities and skills in terms of related qualifications and competencies required to take up the identified occupation.
- To understand their potentials and interests in relation to identified occupation.
- In developing abilities to analyze occupational information and make use of it effectively.
- In getting information about various post-educational, training facilities and apprenticeship schemes etc.
Strategies for vocational guidance:
A well organized system of vocational information readily available to students forms the basis for the choice of vocational guidance strategies.
They should be based on the following principles
- Occupation should be a source of income to people and a major source of satisfying needs and optimizing aptitudes, competencies and interests.
- The individual needs to understand the total perspective of a vocation for which he has decided to prepare.
- Vocational guidance services should be based on individual differences.
- Different strategies need to be used to cater to the individual vocational needs of students.
- Vocational guidance service must fulfill the vocational needs of every student.
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