Career - Counselling Practices for University Students

Abstract

In the last 10 years, career-counselling services for students have experienced a real growth in the Romanian universities. Generated by the real needs of the clients, these services were not certified, from the beginning, in their own system of tested and validated good practices. Our study relies on a model of counselling designed and implemented at the Department of Professional Counselling from “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău. The integrated model of career counselling called AKA, shows the relationship between action (A) and knowledge (K), through the combination of the most diverse and attractive forms of activity, to raise awareness and student's involvement in this kind of actions, but also to achieve the anticipated effects. The purpose of this study is to (re)validate the impact of the career counselling actions integrated in the AKA model. Based on an analysis of the specific literature and the expertise achieved in the career-counselling field, the study will highlight a number of action ways, exploited through the department activities. For illustration, we shall present the latest seminar organized for this purpose, in March 2014, with the students in the final years from two faculties. Then, we shall analyse the results obtained on this occasion. The practices highlighted in this study and the conclusions may contribute to inter-university exchange of actionable strategies and the use of new and more efficient models during the career counselling services for university students.