Is there a difference between Career Counseling and Career Coaching?
As described on the National Career Development Association Website, career counselors hold a graduate degree in counseling with a specialization in career counseling. Services of career counselors differ, depending on the counselor’s level of competence, the setting, client needs, and other factors. Examples of services include conducting individual or group counseling sessions, administering and interpreting assessments or inventories, and teaching job hunting skills. National Certified Career Counselors, Registered Professional Career Counselors, and other professional career counselors help people make and carry out decisions and plans related to life/career directions. In addition, a counselor might help the client consider variables such as an optimal work environment, desired/required income level, proportion of job devoted to tasks such as writing, customer contact, etc. There may also be a teaching component to the work, such as helping clients learn to construct a resume or c
