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By Helen M. Flores (The Philippine Star) | Updated August 29, 2013 -
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MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Education will allow high school
teachers to act as counselors to help students choose their careers under the K to 12
Law.
Republic Act 10533 or the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2012 requires
high schools to have “career and employment guidance counselors” who will properly
guide the students in choosing their career tracks.
The draft implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of RA 10533 provided for “career
and employment guidance advocates” who are not registered and licensed guidance
counselors.
The draft IRR allows schools to appoint personnel other than licensed school
counselors to run their career guidance advocacy activities for high school students.
“Career guidance advocacy, information and advising may be done by non-
registered counselors, career guidance advocates, teachers and peer facilitators,
among others,” it said.

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 CAREER GUIDANCE COUNSELOR
A GUIDANCE COUNSELOR is a natural person who has been
registered and issued a valid Certificate of Registration and a valid Professional
Identification Card by the Professional Regulatory Board of Guidance and
Counseling and the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) in accordance
with this Act and by virtue of specialized training performs for a fee, salary or
other forms of compensation, the functions of guidance and counseling under
Section 3 (a) of this Act. (RA 9258)

CAREER GUIDANCE COUNSELOR ROLE

- is to work with students and parents to help guide
students' academic, behavioral and social growth. Can do career
counseling with students, parents and other professionals.
Individuals in this field work in elementary, high schools, senior
high schools, Colleges and Universities.
CAREER GUIDANCE SERVICES

Educational institutions
may or may not offer
formal and extensive
career planning or career
counseling activities. Some
offer basic career guidance
services, although such
may be only a small part of
the guidance or school
counseling program. It is
useful to know how much
services may be maximized
to respond to the career
needs of the clientele.
 – provides information to help client get to know more about
the world of work and the factors that impinge upon it. This
includes career week; job fairs; seminars and workshops mainly to
provide knowledge that will orient people to the different kinds of
possibilities available, their nature and their requirements. It also
includes printed materials – career brochures, newspaper clippings
on job trends, websites to open, posting on job openings,
corporate practices, and the like, as well as books or magazines on
biographical sketches of possible career models. Film clips or
documents that expound on jobs or occupations are also very
useful.
 Individual Inventory Service

– involves helping the client get to know more of

himself/herself through varied assessment
instruments – psychological tests, rating scales,
health records academic history, sociogram reports,
socioeconomic data, interview, observations and
other forms of assessments.
 – helps the individual
make a personal career plan and a
plan of action by discussing the
relationship between discoveries
about the world of work and the
self vis-à-vis personal aspirations
and circumstances. It also helps
the client overcome the obstacles
in making the appropriate career
moves. It also ensures that the
client is able to take the
appropriate actions to enter the
world of work or to make the
transitions necessary. This can be
done individually or in groups.
 SHS

– facilitates the entry into the proper setting, with due consideration of the
outcomes of counseling. Proper setting can include selection of appropriate
training or educational institution – music or dance school; marital arts or
gymnastics; art, etc. it also includes the selection and entry into the appropriate
high school setting – technical vocational, science, regular basic education; and
post high school course – technical-vocational, certificate programs; degree
program. It also involves the selection and entry into a postgraduate course or
institution. Finally, it includes the selection and employment in the work setting
most compatible to the individual and his/her traits, aspirations, etc.
 – assess the client’s
Follow-up Service performance and
satisfaction in the setting
pursued. It tries to iron out
difficulties to work out
certain adjustments
required. It also involves in
helping the client make
decisions necessary with
regard to the training
program, institution,
course, occupation and
work setting pursued.
Research and Evaluation service
– seeks to determine the success
rates of graduates in the educational or
occupational setting entered and decide
on the modification or strengthening of
certain programs or activities used for
preparing the clientele. It also seeks to
determine whether strategies or
techniques employed for career guidance
and planning are appropriate, effective,
and satisfying in bringing about the goals
of the Career Program and the
individuals who underwent them.
1. Differential Psychology-
interested in work and
occupations
2. Personality- view individuals
as an organizer of their own
experiences
3. Sociology- focus on
occupational mobility
4. Developmental Psychology-
concerned with the “life
course”