Managing the Need for Career Guidance and Counseling for Students Case Study – The Bucharest University of Economics Studies

Abstract

This article discusses the management of career guidance and counselling need of students. Choosing the right career and going through the necessary steps of forming a young specialist, is a complex process. Career guidance and counselling programs provide multiple benefits to individuals, community and society. Namely, they support the maximum professional development potential of people in accordance with their aspirations and abilities, reduce college dropout, improve youth transition between different levels of education, increase participation in education, develop social inclusion and equity or simplify the access to the labor market. This paper emphasizes on both the need for career guidance and counselling activities for students and the positive impact this activities have on the academic life. The present article conducts a research regarding the needs for career guidance and counselling, felt by students from the the Bucharest University of Economics Studies. Moreover it underlies the necessity of psycho-pedagogical counselling.

Keywords

• career guidance
• counselling services for students
• managing the need for career guidance and counseling activities for students
• students career development
• professional and personal development
• academic life