PROACTIVE DIMENSIONS OF CAREER COUNSELLING AND ORIENTATION SERVICES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM
PROACTIVE DIMENSIONS OF CAREER COUNSELLING AND ORIENTATION SERVICES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

Summary/Abstract: The creation of career counseling and orientation centers has brought opportunities to students in regards to self knowledge (in the form of interests, needs, abilities, etc) and consequently in the proper awareness of one’s appropriate professional route. Providing quality career counseling and orientation services (the proactive type), consists firstly in establishing an optimum relationship between the counselor and the beneficiary.For this to happen, a crucial role is held by the counseling competence, defined as a sum of scientifical, moral and social competences and as an intersection point of managerial, teaching and therapeutical abilities.First we aim to analyze from a theoretical standpoint the two essential dimensions of the counseling competence, which are: scientific and moral competence of the career counselor.On the other hand, the study follows the measure in which the career counseling activity undergone in the higher education system by career counselors is of a proactive type. For this we aim to answer the following questions:1. Who are the specialists that provide career counseling services, under the followed specializations?2. To what degree do career specialists know and respect the ethical norms that are specific to their own profession?3. What are the challenges that they face at the level of the counselor-beneficiary(student) relationship and how do they respond to this challenge? The study is realized on a lot of 50 career counselors in the career counseling and orientation centers of several universities across the country, the research methods used in gathering the data being the survey-based research and document analysis. Upon processing the data, we can conclude that the services provided by career counselors are of a proactive type, a fact which indicates an efficient counselor-beneficiary relationship. The conclusions of the study take into account a few recommendations regarding the conditions that must be respected and that should contribute to the optimization of the beneficiary-counselor relationship, implicitly in the optimizing of career counseling and orientation services within the universities in our country.

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