……so we should be involved in a career that is not only fulfilling but attractive as well.

When you seek out career counseling and career advising for your future job, you will get a wealth of tools that can help counsel you towards a job that satisfies you personally as well as professionally.

Career counseling consists of visiting with an employment professional who will conduct a personal interview with you to get to know you just a little bit better.  The counselor will probably administer some type of career assessment to you such as a career interest assessment test, a Kiersey temperament scale test, and hopefully a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a Values or Skill inventory,or just a career placement test.  These tests may help show you which careers are best beneficial to your personality, talents, and abilities. These are all things we know we have but don’t specifically identify or think of; when identified they can show us careers we “naturally” fit.

Once you have a list of possible careers, the career career coach will then give you more information about any of the jobs that interest you as well as information about any education or special training that you will need.  Many times they can help you find and register for any classes or training programs and even provide you with support services as you go through the process of getting into a new career.

Career counseling also involves introducing to you job hunting strategies, resume writing skills, and interview techniques.  When you are searching for your dream job, you will want to make the great impression.  Career counselors are experts in this field and they know what employers are looking for.  They can be great for anyone who wants to locate a new job and make the right impression from first interview to your first day on the job.

Career advisers are running businesses, usually self-employed, so they will charge a fee for their services.  Often the fee isn’t exorbitant and can be paid in installments if need be.  If you have no idea where to go when it comes to choosing a new career, however, that money can be very well spent in career counseling.  It’s an investment in your future and one that can make the difference between finding the job of your dreams or plodding through a job you hate, which is what most folks are doing.

There is no need to pay an exorbitant fee such as hundreds of dollars per hour especially in these times of economic crises and displacement. You can find the career adviser who will only charge a very modest fee, sometimes a monthly non-contract fee and target on your needs knowing that this is a part of what will keep you as a good client who may refer their services to others when you have successfully found your dream career.

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