Introduction
Career interventions take various forms, such as career assessment, counseling, and group counseling, among others. Essentially, career interventions enable a) an individual to understand their interests and personalities, b) integrate occupational and personal knowledge in true reasoning to achieve a significant career decision, and c) acquire vocational information.
Purpose of Career Counselling
In career counseling, the counselor works closely with the client. Continuous conversations and activities between a client and a counselor are designed to enable the client to a) decide the career path to take, b) successfully complete a job search, and c) develop job satisfaction or achievement at the workplace.
Benefits
Seeking career counseling provides the following benefits: reduces the rate of indecision, appropriate execution of career plans, provides counselor support, ensures life and job satisfaction, and finally, enables the client to clarify their values (Argyropoulou and Kaliris, 2018).
Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment
The Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment is an influential career counseling theory.
The theory focuses on how a person fits into their work environment and uses this information to make vital career choices.
The theory aims to answer two questions: first, are the needs of the person met at the workplace, and are they satisfied? Secondly, do the abilities of the individual match the requirements of the workplace? (Swanson & Schneider, 2013)
This theory aims to understand the processes and sustenance of work adjustment.
It uses active adjustment, perseverance, flexibility, and reactive adjustment.
When flexibility is attained, adjustment behaviors are driven, thereby ushering in perseverance to determine how long the person will stay at the job.
References
Argyropoulou, K., & Kaliris, A. (2018). From career decision-making to career decision-management: New trends and prospects for career counseling. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 5(10), 483–502.
Swanson, J. L., & Schneider, M. (2013). Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment. In S. D. Brown & R. W. Lent (Eds.), Career development and counseling: Putting theory and research to work (2nd ed.) (pp. 29–53). John Wiley & Sons.