What are tasks of career counseling in education institutions in Vietnam?

What are tasks of career counseling in education institutions in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 4 of the Circular 07/2022/TT-BGDDT stipulating tasks of career counseling in education institutions in Vietnam as follows: 

1. Career counseling in primary schools

a) Educate students on jobs, career, occupations of parents, relatives, local traditional works, and basic occupations.

b) Teach students to form awareness, manage, discover themselves, manage finance, and develop communication skills.

c) Discover, nourish, and develop talents of students.

2. Career counseling in lower-secondary schools

a) Teach students to be positive towards work, career, and occupation; guide students to discover their hobbies, capacity, strengths, and career potentials.

b) Teach students to form and develop social skills, time management skill, stress and crisis coping skills, cooperating and sharing skills.

c) Create environment and allow students to get to know and experience some basic occupations, careers within the education institutions’ conditions.

d) Counsel, provide career and occupational training for students suitable with selected careers and jobs.

dd) Provide students with information, learning materials, and documents relating to career counseling.

3. Career counseling for upper-secondary schools

a) Teach students to develop potentials, capacity, and identify their professional demands and preferences.

b) Provide students with information on higher education institutions, training programs, and working positions following graduations.

c) Provide students with information and development trends of career and occupations.

d) Teach students to form and develop group work, presentation, leadership, planning, self-studying, and problem solving skills.

dd) Allow students to research and experience career and occupations of their wish within education institutions’ demands.

4. Career counseling for higher education institutions

a) Develop database on career, recruitment, skill and attitude requirements of occupations and career; information on work market relating to training majors.

b) Provide training and help students train, develop awareness, social skills, manage emotions, and professional skills.

c) Help students experience and get used to real-life work in partners; guide students to take part-time work suitable with study schedules and school rules.

d) Publicize students’ employment status after graduation and update student’s employment statistic on database of Ministry of Education and Training.

What are forms of implementation of career counseling in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 5 of the Circular 07/2022/TT-BGDDT stipulating forms of implementation of career counseling in Vietnam as follows: 

1. For primary schools

a) Integrate with subjects and curricular activities.

b) Allow students to find out about popular jobs in Vietnam via learning tools, working tools, images, videos, stage performances.

c) Allow students to recognize work and occupations via visiting and experiencing in the community, enterprises, agencies, entities, and partners at least once per year depending on education institutions’ conditions.

d) Discover, improve potentials, train skills of students via studying, club activities, extra-curricular activities, and cooperation with partners.

2. For lower-secondary schools

a) Integrate with subjects and curricular activities.

b) Allow students to research and acknowledge work trends via images, videos, materials, studying tools, and working tools.

c) Allow students to experience, practice, and know about occupations and work by visiting, experiencing in community, enterprises, agencies, entities, and partners at least once every school year within schools’ capacity.

d) Guide, instruct students to discover, recognize, and develop potentials, skills, strengths, occupation options and work via studying and training.

dd) Organize training for knowledge and skills regarding occupations and work for students via club activities, extra-curricular activities, and cooperation with partners.

3. For upper-secondary schools

a) Integrate with subjects and curricular activities.

b) Allow students to research virtue, capacity, specialty, and professional requirements of work via learning tools, working tools, occupational materials.

c) Organize training for knowledge and skills regarding occupations and work for students via club activities, extra-curricular activities, and cooperation with partners.

d) Allow students to practice, experience occupations that the students have been counseled by visiting, experiencing in community, enterprises, agencies, entities, and partners at least once per school year within the schools' capacity.

dd) Organize admission and career counseling day for students, at least once per school year.

4. For higher education institutions

a) Instruct students to extract recruitment database of employers and information on labor market.

b) Provide tools, methods, and guide students to assess their ability, attitude, and adaptability to the labor market.

c) Organize career training for students via social activities and extra-curricular activities.

d) Organize training, knowledge improvement, and skill training for students via club activities, extra-curricular activities, experiences at employers, and cooperation with partners.

dd) Organize admission and career day for students at least once per school year.

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