Why is career counseling important?

Career counseling can help you discover your career path, help you overcome challenges preventing you from finding happiness in your job, or help you learn more about career opportunities that are available to you. Career counselors are typically counselors who specialize in helping guide people into their best career choices. As professionals, they have typically completed a master’s degree in counseling with a focus on career counseling and bring a nuanced understanding of the emotional blocks that prevent someone from doing what they love or getting ahead in their current position. Here are some of the ways that career counseling can help:

• Identify your skills and talents and how they correlate to different career paths
• Educate you about the educational requirements for launching in various careers and what earnings can look like
• Help you understand the kind of environment you want to work in, and which careers are best suited for that
• See opportunities to transfer your existing skill set to other career areas
• Help you identify causes of tension or unhappiness in your current career and how to overcome those difficulties
• Help you create a game plan for moving forward
• Provide a safe space for you to understand your feelings about career choices you’re making