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Unit 3: Vocational Guidance

The document discusses vocational guidance, which aims to help individuals choose, enter, and progress in a career or occupation that suits their interests and abilities. It defines vocational guidance and outlines its purposes and functions, which include providing career information, assessments to help with self-knowledge, counseling, and job placement assistance. The document also examines the relationship between educational and vocational guidance, noting they are closely linked and both aim to help individuals realize their potential. It provides details on the types and sources of career information needed for effective guidance.

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Unit 3: Vocational Guidance

The document discusses vocational guidance, which aims to help individuals choose, enter, and progress in a career or occupation that suits their interests and abilities. It defines vocational guidance and outlines its purposes and functions, which include providing career information, assessments to help with self-knowledge, counseling, and job placement assistance. The document also examines the relationship between educational and vocational guidance, noting they are closely linked and both aim to help individuals realize their potential. It provides details on the types and sources of career information needed for effective guidance.

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Unit 3: Vocational Guidance

• Vocational Guidance-- Meaning purpose and functions


• Relationship between Educational Guidance and Vocational Guidance
• Career and occupational information

Meaning of Vocational Guidance:


VOCATION is a career or calling that is derived from the Latin word “VOCARE”,
which means “to call”. An American Professor Frank Parsons is called the founding father of
vocational guidance. In 1908 Parson opened the Vocational Bureau of Boston with the
purpose of helping people learn of careers. He wrote book named “Choosing a Vocation”
first published 1909. Vocational guidance is a process of providing help, a service rendered to
the individual to help him in choosing, entering and adjusting to a vocation.
International Labour Organization described vocational guidance as, “assistance given
to an individual in solving problems related to occupational choice and progress with due
regard for the individual’s characteristics and their relation to occupational opportunity.”
According to Super, “Vocational guidance is the process of helping a person to
develop and accept an integrated and adequate picture of himself, and of his role in the world
of work to test this concept against reality and to convert it into a reality with satisfaction to
himself and benefit to society.”
National Vocational Guidance Association, USA stated, “Vocational guidance is the
process of assisting the individual to choose an occupation, prepare for it, enter upon and
progress in it.”
Purposes of vocational guidance:-

 Helping pupils to know themselves


 Helping pupils to know about various jobs, skills, opportunities
 To help adapt the schools to the needs of the students and the community
 To assist the students in choosing, preparing and training for, entering and making
progress in their chosen career or occupation
 Helping pupils to know about scholarships and fellowships etc
 Helping pupils to decide whether to go for further study or to enter the world of work
 Assisting pupils to relate their studies to their vocations
 To disseminate knowledge of competitive and other problems of the business and
occupational world as well as their characteristics
 To help workers understand their relationship with other workers, and society as a
whole.
 To secure greater cooperation between the school and various commercial, industrial,
and professional organizations

Functions of vocational guidance (Services):-

 Providing vocational information


 Self-inventory (Testing service) ( conducting various tests and other procedures
to know about the individual so that he can be guided according to his
characteristics, strengths and weaknesses)
 Personal data-collection including
o General or identification data
o Physical data
o Psychological data
o Social environment data
o Achievement data
o Data concerning educational and vocational plans
 Counselling
 Vocational preparation
 Placement or employment
 Follow up
 Research

Relation between Educational Guidance and Vocational Guidance:-


 They are closely related and based on each other
 Bothe are processes aimed at developing the individual to realize their potentialities
 Their aims are similar: self discovery and self-direction leading to proper
placement and ensuring happiness for the individual and development of the society
 In practice it is difficult to distinguish between the two:
o Educational guidance is aimed at vocational selection of individual and
vocational guidance is based on educational abilities and qualities
o Identification and development of abilities and interests with the help of
educational guidance aim and help in vocational guidance
o Educational guidance becomes fruitful only by considering the vocational
implications of subjects and vocational fields they will lead to
o A plan of vocational guidance must be followed or accompanied by
educational guidance. Both are parts of total guidance programme
o Educational guidance is influenced by vocational thoughts and vocational
guidance is incomplete without educational guidance
Career and occupational information:-

Occupational information refers to the collection of details about occupational and


educational opportunities. Gathering and using occupational information is essential if an
individual is to select options that fits his or her interests, values, aptitudes and skills. Wise
choice of occupation requires accurate information about:
what occupations are available,
what they require, (psycho-physical characteristics, education/training etc)
what they offer (working conditions, nature of work, remuneration etc)
Thus, occupational information includes facts on the nature of the work, occupational
relationships, working conditions, educational requirements (including personal, training and
experience, and entrance requirements), and employment opportunities.

Types of occupational information:


1. Information on the job opportunities
2. Information on education/training facilities
3. Information on apprenticeship and on the job training facilities
4. Information on scholarships and fellowships
5. Information on trends, patterns and growth of educational, training and employment
opportunities

Needs of occupational information:


1. To make guidance informative
2. To help students to acquire the image of occupations and society’s evaluation of
different occupations
3. To help educational and vocational planning
4. To revise old courses and to develop new ones

Sources of Information:
1. Information on the job: Newspaper Advertisements, Govt. Gazettes, UPSC, SPSC,
other institutions and organizations, DGE&T, NCERT, YMCA etc
2. Information on education/training facilities: Prospectuses of institutes and
Universities, UGC, Directorates of different Ministries, Professional and voluntary
organizations, DGE&T etc
3. Information on apprenticeship and fellowships: Advertisements by various
institutions and organizations, ITIs etc
4. Information on scholarships and fellowships: Advertisements by CSIR, UGC,
AICTE, Universities, Govt. Ministries and Depts., International organizations,
YMCA, Rotary club, Lions Club etc
5. Information on trends, patterns and growth of educational, training and
employment opportunities: Census report, CSIR, Planning Commission, DGE&T,
Yearbooks, Dept. of Statistics, Annual Reports of Banks, Companies etc.

Methods of Collecting Information:


1. Wanted Advertisement survey
2. Alumni follow-up survey
3. Community survey etc.

Methods of Disseminating Information:


1. Individual contact: face to face counselling
2. Group techniques:
a. Through subjects
b. Career education: systematic teaching of occupations
c. Career talks: talks on specific filed of occupations, training etc
d. Career conferences: a meeting or series of meetings in which professional
experts share their knowledge
e. Tutorials: informal, small-group teaching about different vocations
f. Work sample projects: students spend a day or two on the job of their choice
g. Visits to places of work
h. Films and film-strips
i. Dramatisation: how to apply for a job, how to face an interview etc
j. Career exhibitions: organized display of materials of occupational interest
k. Bulletin boards
l. Library visits
m. Mass-media etc.

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