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What Is Vocational Guidance?

Vocational guidance is assistance given to help individuals choose, prepare for, enter, and progress in an occupation that suits them. It involves finding out what jobs are available and their requirements, as well as an individual's background and aptitudes, to help them find a good occupational fit. Vocational guidance aims to help individuals develop an understanding of themselves and their role in the working world through exploration of options and self-assessment activities. It is most commonly provided to secondary school students to help them choose professional training programs or occupations.

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What Is Vocational Guidance?

Vocational guidance is assistance given to help individuals choose, prepare for, enter, and progress in an occupation that suits them. It involves finding out what jobs are available and their requirements, as well as an individual's background and aptitudes, to help them find a good occupational fit. Vocational guidance aims to help individuals develop an understanding of themselves and their role in the working world through exploration of options and self-assessment activities. It is most commonly provided to secondary school students to help them choose professional training programs or occupations.

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What is Vocational Guidance?

It is the assistance given to an individual to choose a vocation, prepare for it, enter upon and
progress in it. In other words it helps a person to have a satisfactory vocational adjustment.
There are so many vocations as there are so many individuals; and certainly all individuals
are not suitable for all the vocations. Every vocation needs certain background, preparation
and aptitude and only those having them can succeed.
The business of the vocational guidance worker is to find out what positions and jobs are
available and what their requirements are and to find out whether the person under
observation fulfils those conditions.
Here again the observation continues much after the suggestion, and in certain cases re-
adjustments may have to be made’. It is mostly at the secondary schools stage that this
particular type of guidance is most needed, because at the end of this stage, pupils usually
join a professional training institution.

Definitions of Vocational Guidance


National Vocational Guidance Association (USA): 1924
Vocational guidance is the giving of information, experience and advice in regard to choosing
an occupation, preparing for it, entering upon it and progress in it.
National Vocational Guidance Association (USA): approved and adopted
another definition in 1937. According to this definition:
Vocational guidance is the process of assisting the individual to choose an occupation,
prepare for it, enter upon and progress in it.
(The National Vocational Guidance Association (NVGA) was founded in 1913. In 1985
NVGA was renamed and became the National Career Development Association (NCDA).
Thus NCDA is the first, longest running and prominent career development association in the
world).

Donald E. Super: 1949


Vocational Guidance is the process of helping a person to develop and accept an integrated
and adequate picture of himself and of his role in the world of work, to test this concept
against reality and to convert it into reality with satisfaction to him and benefit to society.

Conference of International Labour Organisation (1954):


Vocational guidance is an assistance given to an individual in solving the problems related to
occupational choice and progress with due regard for the individual’s characteristics and their
relation to occupational opportunity.

G.E. Myers:
Vocational Guidance is fundamentally an effort to conserve the priceless native capacities of
youth and the costly training provided for youth in the schools. It seeks to conserve these
richest of all human resources by aiding the individual to invest and use them where they will
bring greatest satisfaction and success to him and greatest benefit to society.

John D. Crites:
Vocational guidance is a facilitative process, a service rendered to the individual to aid him in
choosing and adjusting to an occupation.

In this way the vocational guidance is a kind of guidance that is concerned with the
vocational needs and problems of the individuals. In strict psychological and educational
sense, we can define it as a process of helping a pupil to get adequate information regarding
the world of work around him, make a proper choice for his future vocation and achieve
maximum success and satisfaction in it.

Objectives of Vocational Guidance


 To assist the students to acquire knowledge of characteristics, functions, duties and
rewards of the group of occupations within the range of his choice
 To enable them to find out what general and specific abilities, skills etc. are required
for the group of occupations and what the qualification of age, preparation, sex etc.
are needed for entering them
 To provide opportunity for experiences in school and out of school, which may give
such information about conditions of work as may assist the individual to discover his
own abilities and help in the development of wider interest.
 To help the individual realise that all honest labour is worthwhile and that the most
important bases for choice of an occupation are, the special service that the
individual can render to society, personal satisfaction in the occupation and
aptitude for the work required.
 To assist the individual to analyse occupational information and develop the habit of
analysing such information before making a final choice
 To assist the individual to secure such information about himself- his abilities, general
and specific, his interests and his powers as he may need for a wise choice
 To assist economically handicapped children to secure financial assistance through
public or private fund, scholarships or other means so that they may have
opportunities for further education in accordance with their vocational plans.
 To assist the students to secure knowledge of the facilities offered by various
educational institutions for vocational training and the requirements for the admission
to them, the length of training offered and the cost of attendance.
 To help the worker to adjust himself to the occupation in which he is engaged and
assist him to understand his relationship to workers in his own related occupations
and to society as whole.
 To enable the student to secure reliable information about the danger of alluring
shortcuts to fortune
Need and Importance of Vocational Guidance
Matching individuals and skills in job
It is an established fact that individual differ from one another in their abilities skills and
personalities

Assessment of individual
How would one know about himself? A person may have interest in music but may not be
talented to take is as a career. What are the capabilities a person has and what are his limitations.
These are to be analysed with the help of a professional guidance worker to assist the individual in
assessing himself and accordingly choose the right kind of career.

Expansion of work

Minimising the mismatch

Maximum Utilisation of human resources

Dealing with failures

Advantages of Vocational Guidance


 The candidate will have job satisfaction after being selected.
 It would create better industrial relations.
 The labour turnover would be reduced to minimum.
 It leads to overall efficiency and increased productivity.

How to Impart Vocational Guidance to the Pupils


Vocational guidance work, like Educational guidance can be accomplished in three phases;
namely, (i) Collecting of information (ii) Rendering guidance on the bases of this information
and (iii) Follow-up programme.

Collecting of information
In the first phase it is required to collect the full information or regarding the nature of the
child like his abilities, interests, aptitudes, personality characteristics and circumstances of
life has to be obtained carefully. On the other side, the guidance worker also tries to get all
the adequate and relevant information regarding the world of work and job opportunities. He
makes himself well informed by having living contacts with all the current literature and
publications. He has contacts with the employment bureau, state and central Bureaus of
Guidance and counselling and is well acquainted with the current trends of employment
market and the demand and supply position.
Rendering guidance on the bases of this information
Here the pupils are informed about the world of work and Job opportunities through lecture,
display of literature and pamphlet or library readings. They are now helped to match their
individual characteristics with the requirement of different Jobs or occupations and thus
helped to make adequate vocational choices. Further, they are helped to select courses and
activities related to their vocational choices. Many times, they are helped to join special
courses and vocational training for the necessary pre-preparation vocational guidance worker,
also shares the responsibility of helping the pupils in entering into the vocations of their
choice by rendering adequate information about the employment opportunities and having an
intimate contact with the employment agencies. In some case vocational guidance helps in
seeking self-employment. All this sort of work comes within the area of active vocational
guidance or follow-up programme.

Follow-up programme
The evaluation of the process of such guidance is also essential not only for evaluating the
merits and demerits of administered guidance but also for the benefit of the individual
concerned. One may be further helped in this proper adjustment to his vocation through such
follow-up programme.
In this way we see that the task of rendering vocational guidance to the pupils is quite
extensive and laborious. It cannot be left only in the hands of career masters or a separate
guidance worker appointed in the school. The parents, teachers and head of the institution
should also play their dues roles in rendering vocational guidance to the pupils. The guidance
services in the school should be properly established and the co-operation of all the essential
forces should be secured to draw maximum benefit from these services. ..

Vocational Guidance in India


In India, employment exchanges provide vocational guidance to youth (applicants without
any work experience) and adults (with specific work experience).
In order to divert educated youth to channels of gainful employment, vocational guidance and
career advising programmes of the Directorate General of Employment and Training have
been expanded and streamlined. A career study centre and the Central Institute for Research
and Training provide career literature for the occupational orientation of the youth and other
guidance seekers.
The Central Institute for Research and Training in Employment Services (CIRTES) is
functioning under the Director General of employment and training. CIRTES also imparts
training in employment service. It is also engaged in conducting research studies in several
areas and fields of employment service.

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