Careers counsellors should not allow themselves to be put in the business of making predictions. Leave that to the astrologers.
School careers advisors are like a “backwards Google” and the tools they use are “Orwellian” and “detached from reality”, or at least so said journalist andHe is both harsh and fair, right and wrong. The same goes for the hundred plus comments which generally echoed his complaints. There was particular opprobrium reserved for the use of online matching assessments.
Part of the problem is the selective memories of the complainants. Unusual occupational recommendations tend to be better recalled frequently excluding all other options. A more fundamental problem, however, can be laid at the feet of the careers counsellors and the tools that they continue to use. Firstly complaining that a counsellor’s recommendations failed to match a subsequent career path belie misguided expectations about the predictive nature of career counselling.
People and the world are unpredictable, non-linear, complex and ever-changing. While it is understandable that people seek certainty, especially if they feel unsure, making dubious predictions is not going to assist in the longer-term. In other words, we need to stop the guessing game, particularly in school settings, and avoid prematurely putting students into categories and encouraging them to limit their searches.
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