Career Counseling Resources

Kay Richardson works with a Latino male client, who is in graduate school, to help him find clarity with his career options. Kay demonstrates the four aspects of the collaborative process of coaching: 1. Discover, clarify and align with what the client wants to achieve. 2. Encourage client self-discovery. 3. Elicit client-generated solutions and strategies. 4. Hold the client responsible and accountable to himself. Following the client's lead, Kay invites the client to share his ideal vision for his career.

Dr. Warren counsels an Asian, Vietnamese-American gay male transitioning from college to work. She shows how social, familial, and cultural factors influence career development. Skills highlighted include: conducting an intake session; helping a client prioritize counseling needs; career meaning making; cultural sensitivity and its intersections with career counseling practice.

The client is a college-educated African-American female who has worked for 10 years in the non-profit sector. She is considering a career change. Dr. Warren demonstrates five career counseling skill segments that integrate multicultural issues. The video closes showing how to apply career assessments using the Self-Directed Search Form R (4th Ed).

Dr. Zagelbaum counsels two preteen children in individual counseling sessions. Students will learn that children can understand and work with basic career constructs if age-appropriate methods are used. Children are being asked to consider career matters at an increasingly younger age and effective counseling here can help them stay in school. Students will be able to master the Creative Career Constellation approach and see how it relates to cross-cultural, age, gender, and other sociocultural issues.

Dr. Krumboltz applies Happenstance Learning Theory with a female Chinese-American graduate student contemplating career directions. Concepts that will enrich your understanding of career counseling include: Unexpected events almost inevitably play a role in everyone's career; Clients can create opportunities by taking appropriate actions; Counselors can encourage new experiences and allow mistakes.