Career counselling

Haaga-Helia is a private university of applied sciences that provides education for professionals and specialists in business and services.

Competence criteria

As a vocational teacher, I guide my students in a way that enables them to graduate and to find employment and strengthens their possibilities for entrepreneurship.

I promote my students’ employability and entrepreneurial skills. I support my students’ study processes and career goals according to the tutoring plan of the educational institution and the workplace.

As a vocational teacher, I use and develop learning-centered tutoring, teaching and assessment methods, collaboratively with industry representatives, students and colleagues.

• My actions are determined by the competence my students need in the world of work.
• I am familiar with the concept and practices of personalised vocational education and I design study processes which are personalised and negotiable.
• I assess my students through tutoring, and on the basis of their competence.
• I am proficient in tutoring, teaching and assessment in different types of learning environments.

Competence demonstration

Describe a career counselling process which you are part of as a teacher/tutor or explore processes led by others e.g. by interviewing and observing teachers and students or an organisation representative.

Introduce the legislation or, for example, the organisation’s strategic instructions related to career counselling.

Describe the competence that will be required in the future of the work duties and, more extensively, field of the person being counselled.

Describe the career counselling services the person being counselled can utilise in order to find employment or advance in their career.

Describe the career counselling policies of the education institute or organisation (such as, counselling plan, individual study paths, validation of learning and competences, career planning, performance review).

Describe the personalisation-based career counselling process. The career counselling process can contain the realisation of the focus on students or customers, setting and assessment of interim goals, creation and development of interaction, counselling methods, digital counselling tools and
documentation.

Together with the person being counselled, assess how the interim goals set for the career counselling are implemented.

Outline and critically review your observations about career counselling using the vocational pedagogical knowledge base.

Assess your own career competence in relation to professional competence requirements and competence criteria. Identify further needs and opportunities for development in the work practices.