vocational guidance

[ voh-key-shuh-nl gahyd-ns ]

noun

1. the process of assisting a student to choose, prepare for, and enter an occupation for which they show aptitude.

vocational guidance

noun

1. a guidance service based on psychological tests and interviews to find out what career or occupation may best suit a person

Word History and Origins

Origin of vocational guidance¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

After the war, Mr. Koivisto joined the Social Democratic Party, taught school, worked as a vocational guidance counselo9r and received a doctorate in sociology in 1956 from the University of Turku.

From Washington Post

Chemist Betty Lou Raskin titled her 1958 address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science “American Women: Unclaimed Treasures of Science” and blamed “cultural conditioning and poor vocational guidance” for women’s lack of interest in scientific careers:

From Slate

Preventive measures that aim at safeguarding the young against evil contaminations, the institution of social improvement organizations and of literary and economic clubs, the formation of good-fellowship societies, of societies for conducting social surveys, of committees for giving vocational guidance and for the administration of spiritual healing—these and numerous endeavors of the same class give evidence of the great service which the modern church is rendering young humanity.

From Project Gutenberg

The answer to this second question will be of decided significance for vocational guidance.

From Project Gutenberg

But vocational guidance, as distinguished from vocational selection, must for some time to come depend largely on the determination of interests, incentives, satisfactions, emotional values and preferences, and the discovery and direction of these through general channels of information and through the methods of industrial and pre-vocational education.

From Project Gutenberg