Career Counselor Duties & Responsibilities

The role and function of a Career Counselor includes the following duties and responsibilities:

  • Inspecting clients' career-related aspirations, concerns, and uncertainties throughout the consultation process.
  • Reviewing clients' personal and educational undertakings and how the manifestation of these might inform their prospective job-related choices.
  • Proposing career-related options that are congruent with your substantiated insights.
  • Informing clients about potential shortcomings in their skill sets and devising strategies to remedy these.
  • Walking clients through the process of compiling and restructuring their resumes.
  • Guiding clients through the completion of aptitude, personality, and adjacent tests.
  • Scoring clients' responses to pertinent items and conferring with them about the results of these.
  • Pinpointing and informing clients of potentially helpful career-related opportunities.

Note that this is not an exhaustive list of Career Counselor duties and responsibilities. Job functions for specific Career Counselor roles may vary, depending on the industry and type of employer.