The Challenge of Career Guidance and Counseling during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has also opened up opportunities on how career guidance services build roles in the wider community. Whereas in the world of work, globally everything has stopped, projects have been postponed, and workplaces have been closed indefinitely. This journal is a literature review that discusses career guidance and counseling services that are very important in an effort to help victims of layoffs that have occurred as well as workers in general. This problem can be solved through the career guidance function as a treatment to help individuals overcome career-related problems. The essence of the function of career guidance as a stimulus is the ability to anticipate all future possibilities and achieve career maturity. In the future, workers mindsets need to be changed through career guidance services in the form of knowledge assistance on how to manage finances. Through providing career guidance services as a form of treatment and stimulus, individuals will have self-motivation to rise from adversity and get new jobs that match their interests and expertise, find another source of income and to build passive income.

The effect of future time perspective, emotional intelligence and peer support on career maturity in students

“…The result is that the nature of career guidance is as a stimulus about the ability to anticipate future possibilities and achieve career maturity. Through stimulus treatment, it motivates students to rise from adversity and get a job, therefore it is necessary to have a future time perspective according to their interests and expertise (Suwidagdho & Dewi, 2020).…”

“…This problem can be solved through functioning the career guidance service. Essentially, it is to anticipate all possibilities in the future and become a solution for preparation and planning, one of which is by having excellent abilities, in the form of career maturity (Suwidagdho and Dewi, 2020).…”

Students' Anxiety Levels During Online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic

“…At this time the world of education is facing a transition period, the education system that is usually carried out is experiencing changes, this is due to the Covid-19 pandemic that is hitting several countries. The United Nations reports that Covid-19 has closed schools and made 1.6 billion students from 190 countries unable to carry out their usual educational activities (Suwidagdho & Dewi, 2020). The spread of covid-19 transmission has made the Indonesian government nervous, the government is busy with various efforts to tackle the spread of the covid-19 virus.…”

The role of multiple intelligences: For career guidance and counselling services for vocational high school teachers

“…Career guidance and counselling is one type of guidance that seeks to help individuals solve career (work) problems to get the best possible adjustment to their future (Afandi, 2011). In career guidance and counselling, individuals will learn to do career exploration options in the world of work, looking for jobs that match their interests and character and do career planning (Suwidagdho & Dewi, 2020) face to not only face but also online intervention (Pordelan et al, 2018). This is in line with the objectives of Career Guidance and Counselling to help students gain self-understanding and direction in the process of preparing themselves for work and being useful later in society.…”