Educational, Guidance, School, & Vocational Counselors
Also called: Guidance Counselor, Counselor, School Counselor, Academic Advisor
What they do:
Counsel individuals and provide group educational and vocational guidance services.
On the job, you would:
- Counsel individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
- Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
- Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs.
Math and Science
Health
Arts and Humanities
Education and Training
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Basic Skills
Problem Solving
Social
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Verbal
Ideas and Logic
Attention
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People interested in this work like activities that include
helping people, teaching, and talking. They do well at jobs that need:
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You might use software like this on the job: Data base user interface and query software
Analytical or scientific software
Electronic mail software
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You might like a career in one of these industries:
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