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Careers Scotland's approach to guidance model
The Approach to Guidance Model is the framework adopted by Careers Scotland to inform its guidance practice. It has been designed to enable Career Advisers and their clients to identify and resolve actual career planning needs. There are three phases:
Phase 1
Due to the diagnostic nature of this model, there is considerable emphasis on achieving the necessary preconditions for guidance to take place. The Adviser has to establish:
- Effective communication
- Negotiate an agreed way of working together
- Agree the purpose of the interview.
Phase 2
Here, the Career Adviser explores how the client is career planning, establishing the quality of the client’s career planning and identifying issues that affect the client’s capacity to make and implement well-informed and realistic decisions. To arrive at these insights, the Adviser uses a diagnostic tool, the Career Planning Continuum.
Phase 3
In this phase, the Adviser and client identify the range of means available for addressing their needs, taking into account the preferred learning style and level of support required. Certain needs may be addressed within the interview, for example, the need for reassurance, challenging certain assumptions, providing a method for making decisions. Those needs that cannot be immediately met are recorded in an action plan along with the means of addressing these. Any referral or advocacy should be agreed and supported where necessary.
Approach to Guidance Model (adopted by Careers Scotland)
- Task:
- Negotiate with client an agreed way of working together and agree the purpose of the career guidance interview
- Process:
- Appraise the client’s career planning needs and agree action to meet these needs by checking levels of engagement and exploring their planning method
- Outcomes:
- Assist client to make well informed realistic career decision
- Interview Techniques:
- Use of counselling skills to provide reassurance but also challenging skills to question certain assumptions
- LMI:
- Essential to challenge stereotypes and assumptions; stimulate career exploration and develop career planning skills
Career Planning Continuum
The Career Planning Continuum (CPC), originally developed by Nottingham Trent University, sits within the diagnosis stage of the Approach to Guidance model. It is a diagnostic tool which acts to explore and help diagnose actual career planning needs.
<--- Stages 1-3 relate to making decisions --->
<--- Stages 4-8 relate to implementing decisions --->
The Approach to Guidance model is, therefore, based on the notion that this is the way people should career plan, not the way people do plan as described in the different occupational choice theories. Clients are helped to become aware of their actual career planning needs and are supported to resolve these needs.
LMI can be used at all stages of the CPC but the three most significant stages within the model are:
- Self Awareness
- Opportunity Awareness
- Taking stock/coping with change
Careers Scotland’s Career Planning Journey
The Career Planning Journey is a simplified version of the Career Planning Continuum which Careers Scotland has developed to explain the concept of career planning to clients. It shows in a simplified way how planning a career involves a number of stages – a total of six.
It was developed through working groups and focus groups with the whole range of client groups, including school pupils, post school, More Choices More Chances clients and employed and unemployed adults.
Careers Advisers use the Career Planning Journey with clients in one to one guidance interviews: it is used in all appropriate Careers Scotland literature and underscores learning in Careers Scotland products such as Activate, Career Box and Positive Steps.
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