Background
The origin of career/vocational counselling as a speciality within the counselling profession, dates back to the vocational guidance movement of the early 1900s. Then the task of the counsellors was to match clients with appropriate occupations. This speciality has now evolved to the point where it is concerned with a lifelong process of career development, the learning of life skills, preparation for work and planning for leisure time. It also involves shifting the focus from being almost exclusively aimed at children in school settings to work with people of all ages in almost any setting. One such group is the adults in transition.
If our goal is to prepare a world-class workforce, one that can perform optimally, then we must begin to take a serious look at the way we prepare our students to enter the work lace. Our schools need to become human resource development institutes with the vision of preparing all students for further learning and for employment. Career guidance and counselling must be given a place of prominence, with each student afforded the opportunity to develop a plan for life and the opportunity to understand his/her role in society.
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Career Dev Policy 
