A Model of Career Counselling Practice for Use with Unemployed Clients Referred from Employment Agencies

Abstract

This article presents an overview of a practical approach to providing career counselling for unemployed clients of employment agencies. The intervention was designed not simply to generate information from the client, but to generate insight and promote self-esteem in the client. There is as much emphasis on the process itself and the awareness it heightens as on the simultaneous and almost incidental identification of vocational aspirations and pathways. The goal of intervention is to identify ways to improve the employability of the client, not simply to reduce the numbers of unemployed.