School and vocational guidance
Throughout the life cycle, individuals experience phases of transition and change at a personal and occupational level, which necessarily imply redefinitions in their identity.
These periods of change are often accompanied by doubts and uncertainties and a great deal of inner turmoil.
The individual struggles internally to understand “Who is he or she?”; “What are his or her interests and aspirations?”; “What are his or her strengths and weaknesses?”; “What are his or her skills and aptitudes?”; What training and job opportunities best suit his or her individual characteristics?”
This work of identity exploration begins in adolescence, with the first choices inherent in the transition from primary to secondary education; and continues into adulthood, with the transition to university education and from there to the job market.
The success of consolidating a cohesive and consistent vocational identity depends to a large extent on the work of self-knowledge that the individual will be able to carry out throughout their life cycle, and on their ability to explore and gather information from the outside world, in an attempt to achieve a permanent synthesis between their internal qualities and the opportunities that will be provided by reality.
The aim of vocational and professional guidance consultations is to support individuals in these periods of transition, helping them to analyze their aptitudes and interests – increasing their self-knowledge – as well as providing them with the tools that will enable them to autonomously lead their choice and decision-making processes towards more satisfying and self-sustaining vocational commitments.
This process will involve a series of phases ranging from a clinical interview, to the application of tests aimed at determining the main vocational inclinations/trends, to the final return of the vocational assessment results in report format.