Attached are the Procedures in Conducting Career Consultation of DepEd Memorandum DM-OUCI-2021-347 from the Office of the Undersecretary for Curriculum and Instruction, dated August 25, 2021, announcing the DepEd Career Guidance Program (CGP) for S.Y. 2021-2022.
Procedures in Conducting Career Consultation
Career Consultation procedure:
- Guidance Counselors and Career Advocates provide career consultation services.
- Learners should be informed that the school offers career consultation services. The school should provide procedure, schedule, scope and limitations of this service.
- Each session may last from 30 minutes to 60 minutes. The session includes:
- Introduction and building rapport
- Asking about the learner’s career concerns
- Exploring different aspects of the learner’s concern
- Offering possible sources of information (pamphlet, magazines, brochures or online resources/articles)
- Assisting in the creation of action plans/outputs
- Career Consultation aims to assist learners by equipping them with significant information related to career development. Career consultation may include:
a. schools,
b. scholarships,
c. courses / degree programs,
d. career development activities,
e. Labor Market Information (LMI),
f. local employment information,
g. organizations,
h. trainings,
i. skills development and certification,
j. processes,
k. referrals/linkages,
l. requirements for the different curriculum exits, and
m. different career assessment tools.
- The Guidance Counselor and Career Advocate should have proper documentation of all facilitated career consultations.
- Concerns beyond information on career guidance should be handled by a Registered Guidance Counselor or this may be referred to other professionals for further assistance.
