Unit 4 and 5
Evaluate the purpose of different types of career guidance interviews
Evaluate methodologies to explore the career guidance and development needs of clients
Corney and Watts (1998) define information and advice as; ‘providing an immediate response to the needs of clients who present an enquiry or reveal a need that requires more than a straightforward information response. Advice is usually limited to helping with the interpretation of information and with meeting needs already clearly understood by the client…’
Advice and information is therefore concerned with meeting client’s presenting issues relating to information.
The OECD (2004:10) definition of guidance is; ‘Career guidance refers to services and
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This has meant that new approaches have to be made so that clients can access a type of interview at a time and in a place to suit them. To meet individual needs this has meant me offering telephone guidance or home visits to accommodate their requirements. I have also signposted them to online services such as webinars about CV building and networking and useful clips as well as online chats with prospective employers. I also offer events that may give them additional options and opportunities. I have also had to discuss the timing of one to one support with clients, as some prefer to have the interview in the early stages of resettlement to point them in the right direction, whereas others like to carry out their own research and start to make plans and use the interview to reassure them and challenge their options to get more out of it. This also means I can tailor my advice and guidance to the career path they are considering.
Careers guidance interviews in general are evolving in different sectors, for example in Higher Education they have moved from having hour long individual one to ones and evolved into ensuring individuals have access to information and group work.
I am now going to look at five types of interview and approaches that can be taken for different reasons;
In these agencies visits the skill that was mainly used and develop was interviewing. Interviewing is defines as a formal meeting between one or more individuals where questions are being asked and answers are being given. The type of interview that was conducted was face to face consultation. This is one of the best types of interview because it gives you an opportunity to observe the surroundings and body language of the interviewee.
*Information giving, giving the clients feedback. These can be instructions, feedback or an informational statement.
Beginning the interview and skills/techniques used (empathy, rapport building, listening skills, closed-ended questions and open-ended questions, signs of client engagement)
Read the intake interview below. Then discuss what may be unclear to the client and suggest an alternative statement that presents the information more clearly for the client. Utilize the information you have read for this week.
Informative PREPARATION Outline SPEECH TITLE –JOB INTERVIEW I. According to Andy Teach, author of From Graduation to Corporation “It would be great if we all had a career coach or mentor who could follow us around every step of the way when we look for a job,” II. I will be talking about the process called the job interview which is the best way to search for a job. III. I took an orientation workshop at Tennessee Area Career Center and enrolled in an Employment Ability course at Messick Vocational School.
They found that the overall success of the career counselor depended largely upon the initial meeting with the potential recruit. Their study also showed that there are some intricacies involved with the interaction between the career counselor and recruit. While a warm reception effected attitude, it had very little effect on intention. However, when the applicant found the career counselor to be warm, informative and competent, there was a stronger effect realized to both attitude and intention to
You picked the right interview styles for each category. Unstructured interviews seem easier for both the interviewer and the interviewee. The idea of having an interview more like a conversation between two peers sounds relaxing and enjoyable. Panel interviews are probably the most difficult
While looking over the spreadsheet of career interviews, I picked this particular one because personally, I do not want to earn my living off of touching feet. I have had good experiences with the podiatrists I have seen and I respect what their job requires, but I hate feet and would prefer not to touch them.
Lambert argues that there are disadvantages to using semi-structured interview, as the interviewee may go onto another topic without realizing, resulting to this style of interview being hard to keep on track (2012, p105). As well as this, as semi-structured interview allows freedom for further questions, this could result to important questions being missed due to running out of
Interviews also have the advantage of enabling the interviewer to examine quite complex issues, in a great depth of understanding as the interviewer is actually asking the respondent and receiving specific answers. Answers are available to compare with the interviewers personal observations, rather than just having simply observations (Hammersley, 1990; Hammersley, 1992).
Firms prefer using the interview for many reasons. Economists believe that an oral response is very insightful and it indicates the employee’s future performance. Therefore, In order to get full information about the potential employee, conducting an interview is paramount. The nature and kind of work handled by the workforce in Tanglewood is sensitive. Therefore, it calls for diligence in part of the potential employee. Experts hail interview owing to its unique capabilities in assessing the applicant’s behavior. There are certain qualities that must be exhibited by the potential employee in order to meet the set standards. As such, in order to determine the potential employee’s social constructs, interviewing him or her is paramount. Employers
160-164). As per Sommers-Flanagan and Sommers-Flanagan (2008, p. 164-171), a brief summary of the concerns, a closing statement, and reassurance of the support are the few components of closing and termination. Throughout the interview a range of open, closed, and reflective questions are used (Yeung, 2008, p.19-23). Whereas the use of leading, multiple, hypothetical, and double barrelled questions should be minimised (Yeung, 2008, p.42-58).
9, talks about various techniques that should be adopted while interviewing candidates. As the time for
A Career Advisor has a multi-faceted and key role to play in shaping up the future of the students. They act as a confidant when students want share their apprehensions and concerns, a bridge between the professional and theory world, help in professional/social development.