Implication of Career Counseling and the Development of Human

Potential

Maham NaveedM.Ed Secondary

Roll no 2015-245

Career Counseling

Career Choice

Theories

ChancesHappens

Interest and abilities

Personality traits

Human development and maturity

Economic Factors

Individual Values

Factors involves in choosing Career

Implications of career theory for counselors

• Career development is a process leading to a decision

• Counselors should understand:• Particular tasks at certain developmental stages

• Interpret and assess individual interest

• Basic human needs and special needs

• Recognize the rapid change in the ways people work and live

• Update the theories and research

Development of Human Potential

Career Counseling of Human Potential Development (CCHD)

• CCHD focus on encouraging clients to challenge the limitations of their present self concept in a manner of speaking, to redefine themselves and stimulate their vitality

• Development occurs across the life span of the individual

• Awareness of maturing process related to mastery of development task at each life stage

• Individual aptitudes and interest should be enhanced by strategies and experienced

• Environment influences the development

• Programs designed to inhibit negative factors that prevent full development

Phases of Human development program

• Who plays significant role?

• Postsecondary Educational institutions

• Adult Educational Program

• Career centers

• Private practitioners

• Employment Offices

Assessment

Planning

Placement

Women

• Traditional Women’s Careers????• Today women’s careers????

• Women in Pakistan = 48.63% (2014) World Bank• Women in Labor Work= 21.7% ( 2009)• 2005 to 2008 approx. 75, 000 divorce cases • 2008 to 2011 approx. 1, 24141 divorce cases

were registered in Pakistan• 85 percent of love marriages end up in

separations

Single Parent Life

Selfish trend

Women potential should be enhanced

• Prejudice in salaries and opportunities

• Sexual Harassment of female worker

• 60% of women headed families live in poverty

• Career Counselors must help female clients to identify alternatives of traditional jobs as well as create balance to be a mother and a worker

• Recognize educational opportunity, job search skills and Positive self concept

Minorities in Pakistan

• U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2002 estimated

• Christians at 2.09 million

• Ahmadis at 286,000

• Hindus at 1.03 million

• Parsis , Buddhists, and Sikhs at 20,000 each

Our Society future will not be healthy if tomorrow’s minority adults are seriously disadvantaged and

NEGLECTED

Minorities

• Counselors should assist minorities in achieving career equity and opportunities

• Do not be used Biased assessment instruments

• Should be advocated for employment of them based on personal qualification, not on ethnic culture background

Poor

• According to 27 March, 2014 Report

• Poverty in Pakistan – 40 % people living below poverty line

• 52 % of total population in Baluchistan

• 33 % of Sindh

• KPK having 32 %

• 19 % of Punjab

Poor

Counseling

• Homeless Assistance Act (1987) designed to aid schools and reconnect child with school

• School in poverty areas must have good counseling programs and adult education program

• Encouraged to apply only for jobs for which they are qualified

• Involvement of local business

People with Disabilities

• A person who has a physical and mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities

• According to Harrington (1997), students with disabilities frequently leave school without marketable skills or the ability to function independently

Counseling of People with Disabilities

• Understanding of various disabilities and their career implications

• Knowledgeable regarding appropriate resources

• Sensitive, supportive and at the same time Realistic

• Facilitate family support with efforts of other people

• Encourage them handicap to employment

Inadequate career counselingin Pakistan

• In Pakistan, 60 % of the schools are public schools and unfortunately none of them are even aware of the term ‘career counseling’

(M. Murtaza Noor, Director Community Support Program Pakistan) 2013

• 710 schools (Islamabad) and 2,100 private schools (Rawalpindi) do not offer career counseling

Malik Abrar, President All Private Schools and College Owners’ Association (APSCOA)

Thank You