Professional issues of beneficiaries of career counseling services the work: a typological approach

Nicolas Guénolé, Jean-Luc Bernaud, Jean-Sébastien Boudrias

This research aims at defining a taxonomy of people’s career profile during their career counseling sessions. Some 323 clients were consequently submitted to a test protocol assessing their level of psychological resources, social support, depression, self-esteem, indecision, but also their feeling of self-efficacy and their abilities required to be hired as trustworthy employees. The given results allow us to put the emphasis on three distinct categories of career profile who permit to develop a reflection about adaptive counseling, to solve reemployment.

Keywords
career counseling; career transition; cluster analysis; reemployment; career profile

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