One counselor shares his career journey to inspire others to forge their own path.
Tag: Career & Employment Counseling
Career & Employment Counseling
Counselors can be a source of support for clients whose mental health is affecting — or even derailing — their work life.
COVID-19 has largely redefined where people work, how people work and the workplace challenges that confront employees as they try to make ends meet.
The pandemic — and a frayed political climate — have been at the center of various instances of workplace bullying.
Making the transition to life after college has never been without its challenges, but COVID-19 has introduced the class of 2020 to a whole new set of obstacles.
What should a counselor’s role be when clients who are overwhelmed by work stress want to throw in the towel and leave their job?
More than 1 in 3 American workers are part of the millennial generation, according to the Pew Research Center. This growing contingent of young professionals works alongside supervisors and co-workers who came of age when workplace dynamics were very different. These differences encompass everything from demographics to overall level of
Many American workers are overworked, exhausted and underpaid. Defying their biological clocks with shift work. Putting in 50-plus-hour workweeks and often juggling the work of two or more people — all under the eye of sometimes capricious management. Employees huddle together like Survivor contestants, hoping not to be voted off
If there ever was a job seeker’s bible, it would be What Color Is Your Parachute? Four decades after Richard “Dick” Bolles’ seminal title was published, the book continues to influence job seekers and the counselors who support them. American Counseling Association member Rich Feller worked with Bolles and counts
In a postmodern world, supporting clients through career ups and downs demands consideration of the person’s cultural context and background. “Career counseling becomes not so much a procedure but a philosophical framework for guiding the work of counselor and client,” explain Louis A. Busacca and Mark C. Rehfuss in their