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
Example of a Job Position
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
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
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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).
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Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
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Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. See more occupations related to this ability
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Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
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Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing