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Overview
Career guidance advisors help adults and students make education, training and work choices through career planning, exploration of options and reflection on interests, ambitions and qualifications.
In job descriptions, look for counselling methods, study information, training needs, application processes, curriculum or programme advice, job search support and cooperation with education professionals.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Career guidance advisors meet students or adults to explore education, training and work options. Sessions may cover interests, qualifications, study programmes, applications, job search, recognition of prior learning and realistic next steps for a career plan.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include counselling methods, study information, identifying training needs, explaining application processes and cooperating with education professionals. Some roles focus on schools, others on adults, career transitions, job search support or prior learning.
Salary context
Salary context depends on client group, caseload, counselling responsibility, education-sector knowledge, programme advice, documentation duties and whether the advisor handles complex transitions, group information sessions or coordination with other services.
Career paths
Experience can come from education, counselling, recruitment, youth support, human resources or employment services. Development may lead to senior advisor work, programme coordination, specialist transition support, team leadership or policy and service development.
Good to know
Read adverts for the service scope: one-to-one guidance, group study information, application support, training needs, job market information, student wellbeing links and cooperation with teachers, counsellors or employment services.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for career guidance advisor work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Educational support activities n.e.c.
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is employment and vocational integration consultant.
Explore this activityOther social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Other occupations there include employment and vocational integration consultant and humanitarian advisor.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 2
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
21-1012.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETRehabilitation Counselors
21-1015.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
85.69Educational support activities n.e.c.88.99Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Personnel and careers professionals (2423)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5d0cc30d-068a-424c-8463-f42872a7149e |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2423.1 |
| ISCO group | 2423 |
| Concept type | Occupation |