Report on the Canadian Career Counsellor Education Survey
Article Sidebar
-
survey, counsellor, canadian, career
Abstract
In Canada, as in most other countries, there is currently no clear educational model that outlines how one can enter into or progress within the field of career development. Yet having such a model could lead to a stronger professional identity and to greater consistency and quality in the services that clients receive. Understanding how career practitioners have come to enter and progress within the field to date is one step towards designing such an educational model. Using a nationwide, web-based survey, the authors surveyed career practitioners to determine: their educational background; how closely they identify with the field of career development; how they perceive the importance of specific skill and knowledge areas related to the field of career development; how they rate their level of ability within these same skill and knowledge areas; and, to what extent employers in the field seek out and encourage career development specific education. Survey results and implications for the career development community are discussed.
Full text article
Authors
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Copyright in the article is vested with the Authors' under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - Creative Commons International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Under this license:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Canadian Journal of Career Development right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
