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School, and Vocational Counselors

Counselling and Psychology

  • Average Salary

    RM2800 - RM 4500

  • Career Trends

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  • Compability

What is School, and Vocational Counselors?

Counsel individuals and provide group educational and vocational guidance services.

Minimum education level

 

PT3

SPM

STPM

Diploma

Degree

Average Salary

RM2800 - RM 4500

Example of a Job Position

Academic Advisor
Academic Counselor
Advisor
Career Center Director
Career Counselor
Career Services Director
College Counselor
Counselor
Guidance Counselor
School Counselor

Task

? Counsel individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations ? Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools ? Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs ? Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations ? Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks

Knowledge

Education and Training

Knowledge of principles and methods in designing curriculum, training, teaching, and instruction for individuals and groups, as well as measuring the effects of training.

Psychology

Knowledge of human performance and behavior; differences in individual abilities, personalities and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Customer and Personal Services

Knowledge of principles and processes to provide services for customers and personal. This includes assessing customer needs, meeting service quality standards, and evaluating customer satisfaction.

English

Knowledge of the structure and content of English, including the meaning and spelling of each word, composition rules, and grammar.

Therapy and Counseling

Knowledge of principles, methods and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunction, as well as providing career guidance.

Skills

Talking

Talk to others to convey information effectively

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to the problems handled

Reading Understanding

Understand sentences and paragraphs written in work documents.

Social Sensitivity

Realizing the reactions of others, then understanding why they acted like that.

Capability

  • 1

    Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

  • 2

    Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences

  • 3

    Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. See more occupations related to this ability

  • 4

    Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

  • 5

    Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing

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