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O*NET detailed work activityCounsel clients regarding educational or vocational issues
Stays humanBe there for people
3 jobs7 tasks
This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Advise others on educational or vocational matters, under the O*NET work activity group Providing Consultation and Advice to Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 1 AI-assist, 6 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
- Counsel individuals or groups to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
- Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Provide students with information on topics such as college degree programs and admission requirements, financial aid opportunities, trade and technical schools, and apprenticeship programs.
- Maintain close contact with clients during job training and placements to resolve problems and evaluate placement adequacy.
- Compile and study occupational, educational, and economic information to assist counselees in determining and carrying out vocational and educational objectives.