USING ONLINE INSTRUMENTS TO IDENTIFY STUDENT INTERESTS, ABILITIES AND VALUES - RELEVANT RESULTS FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING AND LESSONS LEARNED
USING ONLINE INSTRUMENTS TO IDENTIFY STUDENT INTERESTS, ABILITIES AND VALUES - RELEVANT RESULTS FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING AND LESSONS LEARNED

Summary/Abstract: The ProSCOP project, implemented by “Carol I” National Defence University in 2015, has proposed for relevant stakeholders, among other activities, professional counseling and career guidance. The latter were dedicated to 180 bachelor and master students enrolled in five study programs organized in Bucharest and Brasov. In order to better understand the tasks ahead, the counseling team has designed and administered a questionnaire for identifying student counseling needs at the beginning of the project and a questionnaire for identifying interest, abilities and professional values in the second phase of the project. If the first questionnaire has been administered in the 'pencil and paper' format, the second one was administered online due to several reasons: the target public was no longer accessible in one location, there was not much time for administering and the team needed some automated tool that could provide easy processing facilities and database management. The paper presents some relevant results concerning student interests, abilities and values towards a future place of employment that were further used in the counseling itself and describes the online experience of the counseling team emphasizing the lessons learned, the advantages and disadvantages of such a research strategy.

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