Employment Counsellors
Job description
These individuals provide advice and information to clients seeking employment. They also advise employers on human resource and employment issues. This group includes Employment Counsellors, career development professionals, and supervisors. They work for:
- Human resources services
- Employment assistance agencies
- Consulting firms
- Correctional facilities
- The public service
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Meet with clients to learn about their career and educational backgrounds and career goals.
- Identify barriers to employment for individuals and help them overcome them (resume writing, mock interviews, etc.).
- Determine other individual needs (rehabilitation, financial assistance, additional training, etc.).
- Refer clients to appropriate resources.
- Help individuals at different levels (job dissatisfaction, career reorientation, career transition, etc.).
- Inform clients of employment opportunities, access conditions for professions, and required skills.
- Provide consultation services to various groups and organizations.
Advancement and mobility
- There is some mobility between these positions and other positions in the personnel or training departments.
- Experience is required for supervisory positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $24.50
- Median
- $30.00
- Maximum
- $46.15
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 82.5% Female
- 17.5% Male
- 82.5% Female
- 17.5% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
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NAICS 9135% of jobs
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NAICS 62426% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5614% of jobs
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NAICS 8110% of jobs
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NAICS 5244% of jobs
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Others11% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 9135% of jobs
-
NAICS 62426% of jobs
-
NAICS 55, 5614% of jobs
-
NAICS 8110% of jobs
-
NAICS 5244% of jobs
-
Others11% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
University
Guidance counselling or educational and vocational information
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 65.5%
30.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 95.2%
Psychoeducation
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 33.3%
64.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 91%
4.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Social work
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 88.8%
7.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 84.4%
9.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Social perception
- Reading comprehension
- Service oriented
- Critical thought
- Written expression
- Active learning
- Coordination
- Teaching
- Judgment and decision-making
- Persuasion
- Solving complex problems
- Result evaluation
- Learning strategies
- Negotiation
- Time management
- Information processing
- System analysis
- Systems evaluation
- Human resource management
Abilities
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Written expression
- Speech clarity
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Idea generation
- Information organization
- Speech recognition
- Selective attention
- Near vision
- Originality
- Classification
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Autonomy
- Rigour
- Capacity to be discrete
- Capacity for synthesis
- Sense of observation
- Capacity to facilitate a group
- Open-mindedness
- Knowledge of psychology
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in an office
- Assist and advise
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 41321
Career development practitioners and career counsellors (except education)
Job titles
- Vocational counsellor (except education)
- Employment consultant
- Career development counsellor
- Labour market information consultant
- Employment assistance officer
- Aboriginal employment officer
- Employment services assessment officer
- Aboriginal employment developer
- Workforce development officer
- Workforce adjustment officer
- Employment services officer
- Vocational evaluator
- Employment outreach program counsellor
- Employment group counsellor
- Employment services group counsellor
- Career counsellor (except education)
- Relocation counsellor
- Employment counsellor
- Employment counsellor - government services
- Employment outreach counsellor
- Rehabilitation counsellor
- Vocational rehabilitation consultant
- Outplacement counsellor
- Relocation consultant
- Outplacement consultant
- Career resource centre coordinator
- Employment outreach program coordinator
- Career group facilitator
- Career development facilitator
- Career coach
- Job search trainer
- Career development practitioner
- Guidance counsellor (except education)
- Vocational rehabilitation professional
- Aboriginal employment worker
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: January 29, 2026