As a counselor advising clients or students in career decisions, you will use assessments and inventories to help them create career plans. For this assignment, continue to work with the fictitious client that you selected in the Unit 5 assignment.
Use the Riverbend City: Career Plan media piece to gather and interpret the client’s data and information. This is similar to the assessments you completed in Unit 3 and Unit 6 in the Career Exploration Workbook. Use your completed Career Exploration Workbook as a reference to create a comprehensive career plan with actionable steps.
Complete the Riverbend City: Career Plan form for this assignment. The form is similar to those used with real-world clients. Complete the form in the media piece and then save and upload it for this assignment. Be sure to address the following aspects in the form for this assignment:
Client Profile
Discuss a client profile including identifying information and presenting issues.
- Describe the client’s identifying information such as age, race, gender, family, work status, educational background, current educational status, et cetera.
- Describe the presenting issues of your chosen Riverbend City client.
Analyze your client’s preferences, personality, values, ethics, and interests in relation to their career goals.
Analyze your client’s skills, knowledge, and experiences in relation to their career goals.
Results of Assessments
Analyze the appropriateness of the inventories and assessments completed in relation to your client’s developmental stage and profile.
- Personality:
- 16-Type Jungian Personality Test: Identify your client’s preferences (E or I, S or N, T or F, J or P).
- Big 5 personality theory: Identify your client’s scores regarding extroversion, openness, agreeableness, neuroticism, and conscientiousness.
- Values:
- Identify your client’s top five values from the card sort.
- Interest assessment:
- Identify your client’s highest categories in realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional.
- Interpretation of assessments:
- Connect the assessment results to the presenting issues. What themes emerged?
- Use your reflections from the Career Exploration Workbook to help you complete this section.
- Analyze the appropriateness of the inventories and assessments completed in relation to the client’s developmental stage and profile.
- Professional assets:
- Assess your client’s training, education, and professional and volunteer experiences in relation to his or her career goals.
Career Plan Overview
Analyze your client’s career options using current laws, labor market information (including education or training needed), employment trends, and expected salary.
- Career Options:
- Identify 2–3 job titles that match your client’s skills and interests.
- Analyze the education and or training needed, the employment trends, and expected salary for each job.
Create a career plan for your client that includes a client profile, goals, and an action plan.
- Create a career plan for this person moving forward. Include in your plan your client profile, goals, and an action plan. Use an example career plan from your text or find one that you like on your own.
Refer to your completed Career Exploration Workbook as a supplement to this assignment. Review the Individual Career Plan Scoring Guide for the detailed grading expectations of this assignment.
Submission Requirements
- Communication: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the counseling professions. Write effectively through the consistent use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and APA format. Use scholarly resources that support your analysis through clear, concise, well-organized, and grammatically correct writing that incorporates appropriate APA style conventions with few errors.
- APA Requirements: Follow current edition APA style and format.
- Client Profile: Submit the profile from the Riverbend City: Career Plan media piece.
- Resources: Include resources directly related to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. List your resources.
Jermaine Byrant
Nicole Johnson
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