Description
As a counselor advising clients or students in career decisions, you will use assessments and inventories to help them create career plans. For this assignment, you will consider yourself as the client, interpret the assessments you completed in Units 3, 4, and 6 in the Career Exploration Workbook, and create a career plan with actionable steps. Use your completed Career Exploration Workbook as a reference to complete this paper.
Although you are using yourself as the client, be sure to write from the third-person point of view. Address the following aspects in your assignment:
Client Profile
- Describe the client's identifying information such as age, race, gender, family, work status, educational background, current educational status, et cetera.
- Describe the presenting issues (as you would gather from an intake interview with yourself).
- Be sure to write from the third-person point of view.
Results of Assessments
- Personality:
- 16-Type Jungian Personality Test: Identify your client's preferences (E/I, S/N, T/F, J/P).
- Big 5 Personality Theory: Identify your client's scores regarding extroversion, openness, agreeableness, neuroticism, conscientiousness.
- Values:
- Identify your client's top five values from the card sort.
- Interest Assessment:
- Identify your client's highest categories in realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional.
- Interpretation of Assessments:
- Connect the assessment results to the presenting issues. What themes emerged?
- Use your reflections from the Career Exploration Workbook to help you complete this section.
- Analyze the appropriateness of the inventories and assessments completed in relation to the client's developmental stage and profile.
- Professional Assets:
- Assess your client's training, education, and professional and volunteer experiences in relation to his or her career goals.
- Career Options:
- Identify 2–3 job titles that match your client's skills and interests.
- Describe the education and or training needed, the employment trends, and expected salary for each job.
Individual Career Plan
- Create a career plan for this person moving forward. Include in your plan your client profile, goals, and an action plan. Use an example career plan from your text or find one that you like on your own.
Personal Reflection
- Describe what you learned about yourself in this exercise and how you will use this knowledge in your specialization.
- As part of your reflection, assess your professional limitations as a career counselor.
Your paper should be 4–6 pages with at least four references, written in third-person point of view, and following APA format. Include your completed Career Exploration Workbook as a supplement to this assignment.

Explanation & Answer

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Running Head: INDIVIDUAL CAREER PLAN
Individual Career Plan
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Institutional Affiliation
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INDIVIDUAL CAREER PLAN
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Abstract
This is a paper of a career counseling and planning. The first part is the introduction
which introduces the paper. This is followed by the client profile which introduces the client
and the issues that she has gone through. This is followed by the assessment section. This
section analyses on the best assessment method based on the client’s issue. Assessment
interpretation helps to interpret the result and how to resolve the client’s issue. Professional
asset or the career options are where the client will evaluate the career goals and options she
has. An individual career plan is a plan that contains the profile, goals and an action plan. The
personal reflection segment is written in their person is a reflection that will contain the
professional limitations of a counselor. This is followed by the concluding statements.
INDIVIDUAL CAREER PLAN
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Introduction
In the modern society, career counseling has become part and parcel of the education
system. In this paper, the major point of concentration is to offer best counseling to the client
in order to make wise career decisions. The paper is structured into the analysis of client
profile, assessments of results, and interpretation of assessment, professional assets,
individual career plan, and personal reflection. The purpose of this paper is to offer the
reliable advice to the client concerning the best career to pursue. In giving career counseling,
the major factors that will be considered are client profile and more so cognitive aspects of
the client. The objectives of this paper are to ensure that the client has relevant knowledge
before...
