CAREER_COUNSELLING_EN

 who wish to change professions,


 who are enrolled in various training programmes,


 unemployed,


 immigrants, expatriates, etc.

Herr and Cramer (1996) classify examinations performed with a view to career
counselling according to their purpose:

• predictive;


• discriminative;


• monitoring;


• evaluative as such.

Each of these kinds of examination is important and useful – in various situations – to
support an individual in the process of self-knowledge, information, counselling and
guidance:

• predictive examination will anticipate clients’ potential regarding education,
  training and work, occupational mobility, on the scale of social positions or
  possible performances that could be reached. The following questions will be
  answered: What can I achieve in the future? Is it worth investing in this?
  What activity will bring me success?


• discriminative examination will aspire to consider qualities and performance
  in relation to certain interests, values and preferences for certain occupations
  and the compatibility with certain work environments. The following
  questions will be answered: Am I suited to this occupation? Is this work
  environment suitable for me? Can I adapt and will I be efficient in this
  occupation?
  Both kinds of examination presented above offer answers to clients about the
  “content of choice” (“choosing an occupation means choosing a way of
  implementing one’s self-image” Super, 1997).


• examination performed for monitoring offers information about the training
  market in order to make choices regarding occupations, about the maturity
  level required to start a personal project of career development, about the
  decision quality and opinions on work; here we speak of cognitive and moral-
  attitudinal variables existing or under stabilization. These examinations offer
  clients models so that they can decide on an occupation, “teach” them to be
  independent and choose between equal alternatives, in other words it is a
  question of “turning occupational choice into a process”;


• examination for evaluation interventions concerns the measurement of the
  level attained in realization of the career counselling and guidance objectives.