Where a career guidance advisor can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a career guidance advisor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Career guidance advisors provide guidance and advice to adults and students on making educational, training and occupational choices and assist people in managing their careers, through career planning and career exploration. They help identify options for future careers, assist beneficiaries in the development of their curriculum and help people reflect on their ambitions, interests and qualifications. Career guidance advisors may provide advice on various career planning issues and make suggestions for lifelong learning if necessary, including study recommendations. They may also assist the individual in the search for a job or provide guidance and advice to prepare a candidate for recognition of prior learning.
Also known as career coach, career guidance education advisor, counsellor in career guidance, career guidance counsellor, mentor for prior learning, school careers advisor, careers advisor, educational advisor, career guidance practitioner, school career guidance advisor, careers officer.
Professionals 56 skills on file 12 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: academic advisor, 69%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- assessor of prior learning 46% covered · difficulty 59.4
- academic support officer 45% covered · difficulty 58
- educational counsellor 43% covered · difficulty 61.2
- further education principal 38% covered · difficulty 64
- deputy head teacher 34% covered · difficulty 66.3
- learning mentor 33% covered · difficulty 65.7
- head of higher education institutions 32% covered · difficulty 68.7
- university department head 32% covered · difficulty 69.7
- dean of faculty 31% covered · difficulty 68.4
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A career guidance advisor needs 25 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- apply quality standards to the interaction with candidates information skills
- provide assistance with job search communication, collaboration and creativity
- evaluate clients' progress information skills
- advise on training courses communication, collaboration and creativity
- assess candidates management skills
- assist clients with personal development communication, collaboration and creativity
- labour market health and welfare
- facilitate job market access communication, collaboration and creativity
- coach clients communication, collaboration and creativity
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a career guidance advisor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Career guidance advisor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a career guidance advisor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.