An Exploratory Study on the Competency Model for Career Counseling Professionals

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
유현실 ◽  
Chang-Dai Kim
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Competency Model ◽  
Counseling Professionals

scholarly journals Career Builders: Key Components for Effective Global Youth Career and Workforce Development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia C. Nassar ◽  
Aisha Al-Qimlass
Keyword(s):  
Workforce Development ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Counseling Professionals ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Intervention Efficacy

Global youth unemployment is a significant cause of poverty, resulting in the persistent marginalization of populations. Education and career counseling professionals and professionals in policy, research, and practice concur that the consequences of global youth unemployment are dire. But leaders in these domains have not yet come to an agreement on the best ways to face this global challenge. Our analysis of interdisciplinary literature on global youth unemployment is a first step in identifying and formalizing best practices for culturally appropriate career and workforce development worldwide. This research will support education and career counseling professionals in developing appropriate career and psychosocial support interventions, establishing empirical intervention efficacy and other program evaluation protocols, and creating a capacity-building infrastructure for knowledge-sharing across policy, research, and practitioner stakeholder groups. We also include a proposal for next steps to establish rigorous empirical support for these future initiatives.

Capturing Serendipity in Careers: An Evaluation of the Planned Happenstance Career Inventory With Lithuanian Undergraduates

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ieva Urbanaviciute ◽  
Antanas Kairys ◽  
Kristina Paradnikė ◽  
Birute Pociute
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Vocational Identity ◽  
Academic Major ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Counseling Professionals ◽  
Major Satisfaction ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Planned Happenstance

In the contemporary world, career counseling professionals need to focus on skills that help people bring benefit from positive chances and minimize the damage of negative events. The Planned Happenstance Career Inventory (PHCI) was created to measure these skills. The main aim of the present study was to test the dimensionality and concurrent validity of the PHCI scores in a Lithuanian student sample. A heterogeneous sample of undergraduates participated in the study ( N = 1,064). Confirmatory factor analyses revealed four interrelated planned happenstance skill factors. A fifth––the flexibility factor––was found to function in a separate manner. To further test for concurrent validity, the PHCI scores were correlated with a range of positive career development variables, namely, goal adjustment, academic major satisfaction, and vocational identity. The results supported the hypothesized links, thereby providing evidence on the validity of PHCI scores among Lithuanian students.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document