A career guide is an individual or publication that provides guidance to people facing a variety of career

Career

Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life ". It is usually considered to pertain to remunerative work ....

 challenges. These challenges may include (but are not limited to) dealing with redundancy; seeking a new job; changing careers; returning to work after a career break; building new skills; personal and professional development; going for promotion; and setting up a business. The common aim of the career guide, whatever the particular situation of the individual being guided, is normally to help that individual gain control of their career and, to some extent, their life.

Career guide professionals

Individuals who work as career guides usually take the approach of combining coaching, mentoring, advising and consulting in their work, without being limited to any one of these disciplines. A typical career guide will have a mixture of professional qualifications and work experiences from which to draw when guiding clients. They may also have a large network of contacts and, when appropriate will put a particular client in touch with a contact relevant to their case. A career guide may work for themselves independently or for one or more private or public careers advisory services. The term 'Career Guide' has been first established and used by career consulting firm Position Ignition

Position Ignition

Position Ignition is a Careers Guidance Service that provides career support, advice and guidance to individuals and organizations. It was set up to provide highly personal career consulting services to individuals similar to those provided to senior businessmen in other professions such as a...

, which was created in 2009 and has been using the term for their career consultants and career advisors.

Career guide publications

Career guide publications may take a number of forms, including PDFs, booklets, journals or books. A career guide publication will typically be divided up into a number of chapters or segments, each one addressing a particular career issue. Career guides can also focus on a particular industry or profession. For instance, there is 'The fine artist's career guide: making money in the arts and beyond' and 'Professional Pilot's Career Guide'.

Career guidance standards

In Europe, career guidance as a public service is generaaly expected to meet a number of quality assurance

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance, or QA for short, is the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service or facility to maximize the probability that minimum standards of quality are being attained by the production process...

 standards. According to these standards, European career guidance should:

• Have regular review periods in which to assess guidance resources and processes
• Be transparent and open
• Create synergy and co-operation between education, training, employment and community sectors
• Ensure consistency between local and regional services so that all citizens are treated equally, regardless of geographical location.
• Strive for continuous improvement of tools, services and products.

See also

• Career
  Career
  Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life ". It is usually considered to pertain to remunerative work ....
  
  
• Career development
  Career development
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• Career development website
• Career Development Practitioner
  Career Development Practitioner
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• Career counseling
  Career Counseling
  Career counseling and career coaching are similar in nature to traditional counseling. However, the focus is generally on issues such as career exploration, career change, personal career development and other career related issues. Typically when people come for career counseling they know exactly...
  
  
• Career counselors
• Careers Advisory Services
• Coaching