How To Prepare A Career Path & A

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How to prepare a Career

Path & a Action Plan


H.G.G.Jayaweera
Career Path
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• Process of Career counseling

• in career counseling (Think, Judge, Act)
• 1.Establish rapport
• 2.Explore self
• 3.Examine the problem
• 4.Eloborate on possible course of action
• 5.End the interview /discussion
Step 1:1.Establish rapport


• Make family with the counselee by asking his
name/village/his interest with a smile on your
face. And explain him that you are going to help
through the process therefore it is essential to
discuss everything that are relevant to career
choice. Remind him/her this revelation will help
you to backup the counselee in his effort in
decision making process.
Step2:Explore self


• This is a listening job from your part, once a while,
summaries or repeat what he/she says.
• This process helps you to make a clear understand
about his/present thinking, concepts, values. But don't
judge or criticize them. You can ask questions with out
disturbing his talk to clarify the things that you want.
Discuss about the Counselee's Present
• 1. Educational back ground,2. His/her skills,3. Score of
his/her interest test,4. His/her career target
• Methods that use in this process
• Reflecting
• Paraphrasing
• Summarizing
Step 3:Examine the problem

• This is the crucial step be careful not to


put your decisions upon him. Ask open
questions such as Now what are going to
do? how you are going to do it? according
to the descriptions what skills , educational
background you can use? This is process
of enligtening him/her about his resources,
strengthens, weakness,opportunities etc.
Step 4: Elaborate on possible
course of action
• on possible course of action
• After examine the problem you can ask him/her
what course of action should he/her going to
take to solve his caree problem.You must give
freedom to him/her to take the decision.
Remember, continuesly repeat to your self you
are not a decission -maker,you are only a
helper.
• Before wind up help him to prepare a action plan
that both of you can monitor to achieve his
target.
Step 5: End the interview /discussion

• End the interview /discussion


How prepare a Action Plan
• There are variety ways of preparing a
action plan, here we use a very simplified
action plan.
• Explain about achievement column, it
must be use when the step is achieved in
relevant date or time. Ask to put a  or
indicator when it is achieved
Action plan format
Date/time/ Task/description Achieved
duration
How prepare a Action Plan
• This type of action plan can be prepared
by asking following questions
• What are you going to do first? - Answer
to this question can put in task column
• How are you going to do it? - Answer
to this question can put in task column
• When are you going to do it? - Answer
to this question can out in time range
column
How prepare a Action Plan
• Then repeat these questions as follows
• What next are you going to do & ask
above 3 questions likewise continue the
process until counselee reach ( achieve)
1 step of the target.

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