Career development

interventions
Definitions
Career development intervention is defined as any activity that
empowers people to cope effectively with career development
tasks (Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2002).

It is a deliberate act aimed to enhancing some aspect of a

person’s career development such as career maturity and
career decision making (Isaacon & Brown, 2000).
There are many type of career development interventions
including career guidance, career counseling, career
information, career education, career development program
and career coaching (Isaacon & Brown, 2000).

All these interventions are help people to develop self-

awareness, occupational awareness, learn career decision
making skill, job search skills, cope with job stress, adjust
and implement after have make a choice, problem solving
skills
Final definition
 Any action/activity or policy taken
by organization or adopted by an
individual for the improvement of
future career is known as
INTERVENTION
Types of Interventions

1) work-based intervention
2) Advising interventions
3) Introductory interventions
4) Curriculum-based intervention
work-based intervention
This class of interventions designed to promote both
career and academic self-efficacy and motivations
through sustained and meaningful interactions with
work site in the community.
There are ten types of work-based interventions
include cooperative:
education, internship, job shadowing, job coaching,
job placement, mentorship programs, service
learning/volunteer programs, work-based learning
project, work study and youth apprenticeship.
Advising interventions
preparation, personal/social counseling, portfolio/ individual
career plan, recruiting, referral to external training programs
and referral to external
counseling/assessment the class of interventions designed to
provide direction,
resolve impediments, about their goals for the future.

There are 20
interventions include academic planning counseling, career
focused parent/student conference, career
peer advising/tutoring, career map, career maturity
assessment, career counseling, career interest
assessment, career library/career resource center, career
cluster/pathway/major, career passport/ skills
certificate, college admissions testing, computer-assisted
career guidance, cooperative/dual enrollment,
information interviewing, job-hunting
Introductory Intervention

 Designed to awaken a student’s interest

in their own personal and professional
growth. There are seven
 Programs in this intervention which
include career day/career fair,
assessment, community members teach
in classroom, guidance lesson on
personal/social development,
 Guidance lesson on career development,
and guidance lesson on academic
planning. career field trip, career aptitude
Curriculum based interventions
 curriculum-based intervention defined as the class
of interventions designed to promote career and
 academic knowledge and skills through means
and content relevant to world of work.
 type of intervention include career information
infused into curriculum, career/technical
education
 course, career skills infused into curriculum,
career academy/career magnet school, school
based
 enterprise, student clubs/activities .
Variety of approach
 Formal & Informal:
Off the job activities and day to day
activities
 Centralized & local:

central decision about people and

decentralized decisions about employees.
 The language chosen:

organizations refer to the capabilities.

 The workers covered:

Applied to all employee

Purpose of CDI’s
 Assessment
 Career Options
 Action Planning
 Skill Development
 Vacancy Filling
Assessment
 Self help packages
 Appraisal
 360-degree feed back
 Development centers
Career Options
 Job maps
 Competence
 Information interviews
Action Planning

 Career planning courses

 Career work shops
 Career counseling
 Mentoring
Skill Development
 Learning centers
 Education and training
 Networking
 Secondament
 Personal Development Plans
Vacancy Filling
 Succession
 Lateral moves
 Vacancy system
 Information interviews