The Overview of the Career and Work Counselling

The Overview of the Career and Work Counselling course is a introduction or description of what a career counsellor's job is like. In this course, we discussed about learning styles, did listening activities, talked about the S-O-L-E-R, counselling skills and attributes, multiple intelligences, reluctance of clients, how to do probing, employability dimensions and conflict managements. All this class actives gave me a deep understanding of skills that I have and the areas where I need to improve to become a career counsellor.

During the second weeks of the class, Diane discussed about the learning styles that is available for people to use. The three learning styles are the visual, auditory and tactile. Visual style is where people like to leaning or remember best when they are using images, pictures, videos, charts and diagrams. This is the style where people like to see the things or can remember things with pictures. There is also the visual reading style where people learn best when they read about it and write about it. Auditory style is where people like to learn or remember best when they hear or talked about it. This style's people is best at learning at listening to the conversations and discussions of the lectures. Tactile style is also known as kinesthetic style, this is the style where people learn best when they practices with their hands or doing the things that they have learned. Kinesthetic learners like to have activities that is hands on, like to build things and enjoying making things.

On week three to week six we discussed about the listening skills which is the S-O-L-E-R, the counselling skills and the attributes. According to Diane's overview week 3 objectives for today's class PowerPoint slides "S" is f...

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... them information about where to get help with finance trouble, child care, housing and etc.

In week 10 and 11,we looked at conflict management. Every person has its own style at solving conflict and every conflict management styles has its own advantages and disadvantages. The 5 conflict management styles is retreaters, fighters, compromisers, peacemakers and diplomats. During this week we did a class active where I found out that I am a diplomat when it comes in solving conflict. Diplomats like to work and find the solution together by asking everyone's options and finding a common ground where everyone agrees to it. The disadvantage is that it is very time consuming. Career counsellor can use this activity t help their clients to find out the way they use to solve conflict and where they need improvements because this will help them in their future job conflic.