PROESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CAREER COUNSELLING SERVICES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Keywords:
career counselling, higher education, youth employment.Abstract
Choosing a career and going through all the necessary
steps of training a young specialist represents a complex process
that has a major impact in defining its professional future.
Research suggest that this process not associated with external
support often implies wrong choices of career, hesitations,
abandonment, procrastination, poor professional performance,
state of continuous discontent across the life span, including
depression. Aiming to adapt career counseling services dedicated
to students, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and
Social Sciences of Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad has
conducted in 2016 an ascertaining survey on 112 respondents,
students in engineering, economics, informatics, design,
educational sciences and psychology. The aim of this study was
to identify students' motivation to participate in career
counseling activities and their perceptions of the usefulness of
proposed activities. The main conclusion we have drown after
analyzing results and discussing them with our students is that
they just do not look for counsellors or trainers that give them
the answer to questions they may never encounter, they need
mentors, coaches and tools that help them find the answers by
themselves, at the time they need them.
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