Training for career counsellors, including those in schools, has improved a
lot since people like us were at school - yet I still hear from colleagues in the field that some of them are very poorly-informed. I heard about one school counsellor who knew nothing about apprenticeships, so had never raised the skilled trades as a possibility with kids who were hands-on learners and would have really made a success of an apprenticeship.
But overall the tools and techniques available to school counsellors are a lot better now, including online resources such as careercruising.com and computerised assessments.
And here's another online resource - free - that's worth a look. It's a really good tool for helping people work out what kind of work suits them and it's used far and wide:
University of Waterloo Career Development Manual .
Wendy
