Form of implementation of career counseling in educational institutions in Vietnam

Form of implementation of career counseling in educational institutions in Vietnam (Internet image)

1. What is career counseling in education institutions in educational institutions in Vietnam?

According to Clause 1, Article 2 of Circular 07/2022/TT-BGDDT, career counseling in education institutions refers to activities conducted to help learners discover their potentials, talents in order to redirect their studying, specialty development, career, and occupation according to their capacity, hobbies, strengths, and health.

2. Form of implementation of career counseling in educational institutions in Vietnam

Form of implementation of career counseling in educational institutions in Vietnam are specified in Article 5 of Circular 07/2022/TT-BGDDT for each educational level as follows:

(1) For primary schools

- Integrate with subjects and curricular activities.

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

- 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.

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

(2) For lower-secondary schools

- Integrate with subjects and curricular activities.

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

- 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.

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

- 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

- Integrate with subjects and curricular activities.

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

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

- 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.

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

(4) For higher education institutions

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

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

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

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

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

Thanh Rin

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