CAREER_COUNSELLING_EN

In order to offer maximum leverage to the counsellor, the comparison between the two
profiles is automatically performed by the software:

• level 0 – selects the professions matching the profile exactly;


• level 1 – selects the professions requiring lower level aptitudes than the
  individual has;


• levels 2, 3, and 4 – selects those occupations requiring aptitudes situated 2, 3,
  and 4 levels under the individual’s aptitudes.

Each times the professions selected for the respective level are displayed as well as those
on preceding levels. Thus the person requesting career counselling and guidance is
gradually offered an ever-increasing menu of occupational alternatives to choose from.
People may choose for instance an occupation whose aptitude profile exactly matches
their own, or they may choose an occupation inferior to their aptitude profile, preferred
for some good reasons. Let us suppose that after having their aptitudes evaluated, clients
want to know if their aptitudes are suited for a certain profession, which they specify
directly. In this case, the counsellor can access the aptitude profile of the respective
occupation and check whether it matches the aptitude profile of the client. Not only the
occupations for which clients are suited (even overqualified) can be identified, but it can
also be seen how “far ahead” are the desired occupations from clients’ current level of
aptitudes. Counselling will hence take the form of establishing the way through which the
differences may be compensated in order to successfully undertake the preferred
occupation. Comparing an individual aptitude profile against that of the occupation will
generally exhibit the following graphic representation. On comparing the two profiles the
counselling and guidance process becomes much more rigorous and effective.

General

learning

ability

Verbal

aptitude

Numerical

aptitude

Spatial

aptitude

Form

perception

Clerical

abilities

Reaction

time

Decision-

making

capacity

Level 5

Level 4

Level 3

Level 2

Level 1

Legend: aptitude profile for selected / desired occupation

your aptitude profile