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Career Guidance: methodology

The focus of the career facilitation and life design programme at Equilibria is to provide a structured programme with a variety of qualitative activities and psychometric tests in order to effectively facilitate self- and vocational exploration.

Principles

The principles on which the programme is based are aligned with contemporary career counselling practise. They are:

• A developmental approach where career counselling and guidance is seen as a process across the span of the year as students gather more information and gain increased insight. It is not seen as a once-off session where students complete psychometric tests and base their career decisions on the scores.
• A student-focused approach where the student is seen as an active agent who makes his/her own decisions based on thorough self- and vocational exploration. This is a constructivist approach where students take their past into account, carefully look at their present situation and circumstances and build upon it to author and design their own future life and career.
• A contextual approach where the student’s unique circumstances e.g. family/personal history, socio-economic status, etc., are taken into consideration. This also includes the wider context, such as the economic outlook of SA and the world, career trends, labour market demands, scarce skills, and tertiary institution requirements.
• Reality testing where the individual student’s personality, interests, values, talents, abilities, academic school subjects and symbols, physical, mental, psychological and learning problems are taken into account in the career field and vocation they choose and the further and higher education institutions they qualify for.

PROGRAMME STAGES

The Career Guidance stages entail the following:

Implementation of the stages runs from March until students leave Equilibria.

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