Grad Jobs……..the search starts! So, the time has come, you’ve have your ball at University, an IT or a College and the bills need to be paid!!! The student loans must be addressed and its time to think about Grad Jobs and Grad Opportunities. What is your next step? How much can I earn? What […]
Career Advice Dublin – The word ‘career’ derives from the words journey and race. Law (1996) refers to career as a cognate with the word ‘carriage’. In one’s life you may own approximately 6 cars, each car for a different part of your career, your life journey. In essence careers in the 21st century are […]
Career Advice Ireland – Rogers (1980, as cited in Egan, 2010, p138) speaks of ‘empathic listening’ which he describes as ‘temporarily living in the other’s life, moving about in it delicately without judgement’. It is important as a career guidance practitioner providing career advice throughout Ireland to listen intently to the clients story and by […]
Law (1981) states that, ‘Theories of career development are attempts to describe, explain and predict what happens. Theories of guidance are attempts to think how we can sensibly intervene in what happens’, Career development theory provides a framework for helping with a client’s career problem’ (Sharf, 2010). For the purposes of this assignment the focus […]
Reid and West (2010) suggest a new careers guidance model is needed that is interactive, has a focus on holistic meaning, and considers context, past, present and future. Perhaps constructivist approaches to careers guidance can compliment or add modern value to a fast changing social and economic society and diverse population. An issue with the […]
Trait-and-Factor Theory is from person-environment fit theories. Parsons, (1909) argued that if you understand the job and the person you can create a fit which is successful, this system relies on reliable data of the job functions, requirements and the person. The career guidance practitioner can ask the client to partake in a career guidance […]
The guidance professional should be armed with a range of theories (Reid, 2008, p176). Law (2008, p9) states that teachers, advisors and mentors need to think in terms of narrative thinking, using narrative to enable people in terms of their own career management. Narrative can empower the client and thus the client is able to […]
The work – Language and Speech Therapy The work is creative and challenging it involves helping others to find their potential socially educationally and vocationally by allowing them to communicate with others. Speech and language therapists diagnose, treat and support those suffering from speech disorders. People of all ages are treated but most of the […]
Personality Test – In our previous blog post we looked at leaving cert subject choice and we left the post with a slight introduction to aptitude tests and personality testing related to leaving cert subject choice. Personality Test and Psychometric Testing Having undertaken a Career Investigation exercise, next students should look at where their […]
The importance of choosing the right subjects for Leaving Certificate cannot be emphasised enough. How many Career Guidance teachers have met the Leaving Certificate student, hell bent on doing an Engineering course, with higher level Engineering, higher level Construction Studies and foundation level Maths? This is not acceptable. The Leaving Certificate year is not the […]
