A NEW DIMENSION OF STUDENTS` COUNSELLING. VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL PROFILE.
A NEW DIMENSION OF STUDENTS` COUNSELLING. VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL PROFILE.

Summary/Abstract: The constant development of computer and communication technologies requires lately, the transfer from real/reality to virtual into new areas such as career counseling of students. The view presented by various specialists reveals that the counseling activities have to improve its methods of investigation of personality as a basic element to stimulate self-knowledge and personal development of students. The students are a special group of beneficiaries of counseling services that are concerned about their professional future, building a professional profile and personal branding elements. Using new technologies, the rapidity through which students have access to virtual information, elements of social media, personal branding are factors to be considered in providing qualitative guidance and counseling services to students. Trying to answer this need we have developed a set of activities of career counseling for students that combines direct, face to face counseling, with the on-line counseling and which aims to build a professional profile thatincludes the virtual profile component. This paper clarifies, in the first part the basic concepts such as career counseling, career counseling methods, real and virtual professional profile, elements of social media in the construction of the virtual profile. In the second part of the paper there are analyzed face to face and online counseling activities carried out with a group of 30 students of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. The results recorded can be considered a model of good practice in the field of career counseling. The paper concludes by highlighting some possible future actions in the field of counseling that combines traditional counseling methods with modern methods (virtual counseling).

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