Career counselling

How it is used

Use for guided exploration of interests, constraints and possible career routes.

Example sentences

1. Career counselling helped me compare retraining with moving to another employer.

   The guidance supports a choice between different next steps.

2. She sought career counselling after realizing that promotion was not her main goal.

   Counselling can clarify priorities rather than simply recommend vacancies.

Common collocations

• seek career counselling
• career counselling session

Related terms

• career pathThe series of jobs and roles a person moves through during their working life, or a planned way to progress inside a company.
• career changeA move from one type of work or profession to a different one, for example from teaching to software development.

More terms: Career Development

• promotion
• professional development
• career gap
• upskill
• mentor
• foot in the door
• returnship
• apprenticeship
• individual contributor
• lateral move
• portfolio career
• career lattice