Educational, Guidance, & Career Counselors & Advisors

Also called: Academic Advisor, Career Counselor, Guidance Counselor

Career Cluster: Education & Training
What they do:
Advise and assist students and provide educational and vocational guidance services.
On the job, you would:
  • Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
  • Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
  • Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
KNOWLEDGE

Health
  • therapy and counseling
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Education and Training
  • teaching and course design
Business
  • customer service
  • administrative services
SKILLS

Social
  • understanding people's reactions
  • looking for ways to help people
Basic Skills
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
ABILITIES

Ideas and Logic
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • notice when problems happen
Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say
PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Concern for Others
  • Cooperation
  • Social Orientation
  • Dependability
  • Integrity
  • Self Control
TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Analytical or scientific software
  • ACT WorkKeys
  • Counseling software
Data base user interface and query software
  • Blackboard software
  • Microsoft Access
Computer based training software
  • Moodle
  • Schoology
EDUCATION


bachelor's degree or master's degree
usually needed
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JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $105,870.00
Median: $65,140.00
Low: $43,580.00
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