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Career Counseling and Development Flashcards

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  1. The concept of 'career adaptability' in Savickas's Career Construction Theory encompasses all of the following EXCEPT:

    Answer: Contentment with current employment

    Savickas's four dimensions of career adaptability are Concern, Curiosity, Confidence, and Consultation—contentment is not a component and may even signal complacency.

  2. A high school senior is gifted academically but has never held a job, volunteered, or explored extracurricular interests. The educational planner's PRIORITY should be to:

    Answer: Broaden experiential opportunities to build career self-awareness

    Without experiential exposure, assessment data alone is insufficient; the planner should prioritize opportunities that build real-world career awareness and identity.

  3. Labor market information (LMI) is MOST useful in career counseling for:

    Answer: Informing clients about employment trends, demand, and realistic salary expectations

    LMI provides objective data on job outlook, hiring trends, and compensation that helps clients make informed, realistic career decisions.

  4. When a student's career assessment results conflict with their stated interests, the educational planner should:

    Answer: Explore the discrepancy collaboratively to deepen self-understanding

    Discrepancies between assessment results and stated interests are valuable counseling material; exploring them collaboratively often reveals important insights about values, fears, or unexplored options.

  5. In portfolio-based career counseling, what is the PRIMARY purpose of a student's career portfolio?

    Answer: To document skills, achievements, and experiences as evidence for employers or institutions

    A career portfolio provides concrete evidence of a student's skills, experiences, and accomplishments, strengthening applications and self-presentation to colleges and employers.

  6. Which of the following BEST illustrates the concept of 'career maturity' as defined by Super?

    Answer: A teenager who shows age-appropriate awareness of career development tasks and explores options actively

    Career maturity refers to the readiness to make age-appropriate, well-informed career decisions—Super measured it by comparing an individual's career behavior to typical same-age peers.

  7. A student from an immigrant family feels pressure to enter a high-status profession to repay family sacrifices. This is BEST understood through which career counseling framework?

    Answer: Systems Theory Framework (STF) of career development

    The Systems Theory Framework emphasizes the interaction between individual, social/cultural, and environmental/societal influences on career development, making it well-suited to understanding family and cultural pressures.