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Educational Counsellors

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2021-2025
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

These individuals advise students on their schooling. They can also provide them with career and personal development support. This group includes guidance counsellors, individual educational assistants, and career and academic information counsellors. These individuals work in:

  • Secondary schools
  • School centres
  • Post-secondary institutions (CEGEP, university)
  • Employability organizations
  • Private practice

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature

Main tasks

  • Advise and inform students about studies and careers.
  • Coordinate co-op and school-to-work transition programs.
  • Provide counselling services.
  • Administer and interpret various tests (interests, personality, aptitudes, etc.).
  • Train, coordinate, and facilitate groups and workshops.
  • Coordinate orientation programs.
  • Advise students on personal and social issues.
  • Ensure student recruitment and placement.
  • Oversee school-based peer support programs, as required.
  • Supervise interns.

Advancement and mobility

Guidance Counsellors

  • These individuals may specialize in academic guidance, personal, or social counselling, or career counselling.
  • A permit issued by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec (Quebec Order of Psychologists) enables these individuals to use the title of Psychotherapist and to practice psychotherapy.

Hourly wage

The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2019 to 2021.
Minimum
$30.77
Median
$43.06
Maximum
$49.26

Job prospects for 2021-2025

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Job prospects for 2021-2025

Job prospects

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Very good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2020

All of Québec

6,000

All of Québec

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Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
81.7% Female
18.3% Male

Not available.
  • 81.7% Female
  • 18.3% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage on 2015

All of Québec

$67,000

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

Not available.
  1. Educational Services
    NAICS 61
    91% of jobs
  2. Social Assistance
    NAICS 624
    2% of jobs
  3. Public Administration
    NAICS 91
    2% of jobs
  4. Management, Scientific and Technical Services and Scientific Research and Development Services
    NAICS 5416, 5417
    1% of jobs
  5. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    1% of jobs
  6. Others
    3% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Educational Services
    NAICS 61
    91% of jobs
  2. Social Assistance
    NAICS 624
    2% of jobs
  3. Public Administration
    NAICS 91
    2% of jobs
  4. Management, Scientific and Technical Services and Scientific Research and Development Services
    NAICS 5416, 5417
    1% of jobs
  5. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    1% of jobs
  6. Others
    3% 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

More on graduates’ employment situation
Master’s degree

Placement rate: 95.2%

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Université Laval
Multidisciplinary (Educational sciences)
Bachelor’s degree

Placement rate: 69.3%

28% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
Master’s degree

Placement rate: 72.4%

17.3% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
  • Bishop's University
  • Concordia University
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
  • Université du Québec en Outaouais
  • Université du Québec à Montréal
  • Université du Québec à Rimouski
  • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
  • Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
  • Université Laval
  • McGill University
  • TÉLUQ

Also required

Guidance Counsellors

  • Licence to practice.
  • Membership in the Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d'orientation du Québec (Quebec Order of Guidance Counsellors) to use the title of guidance counsellor.

Main skills and characteristics

Skills

  • Data collection
  • Active listening
  • Oral expression
  • Social perception
  • Reading comprehension
  • Service oriented
  • Written expression
  • Critical thought
  • Active learning
  • Coordination
  • Teaching
  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Persuasion
  • Solving complex problems
  • Result evaluation
  • Negotiation
  • Learning strategies
  • Time management
  • Information processing
  • System analysis
  • Systems evaluation
  • Human resource management
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Abilities

  • Verbal skills
  • Written comprehension
  • Oral comprehension
  • Awareness of issues
  • Written expression
  • Speech clarity
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Inductive reasoning
  • Idea generation
  • Information organization
  • Speech recognition
  • Selective attention
  • Originality
  • Near vision
  • Classification
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Knowledge and attributes

  • Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
  • Critical thinking
  • Autonomy
  • Capacity to adapt
  • Capacity to work in a team
  • Versatility
  • Rigour
  • Sense of initiative
  • Commitment to quality
  • Capacity to facilitate a group

Interests

  • Draft, communicate, and inform
  • Assist and advise
  • Assist or care for people

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.
Additional information

Note about CNP

Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.

Official name of the NOC 4033 (41320)

Educational counsellors

Job titles

  • Guidance Consellors
  • Personal academic counsellor
  • School counsellor
  • Vocational counsellor - education
  • Educational counsellor
  • Co-op officer - schools
  • School adjustment officer
  • Student affairs and employment officer
  • Independent or applied studies officer
  • Co-op placement officer - school
  • Education officer
  • School guidance department head
  • Guidance service head
  • College counsellor
  • University counsellor
  • First nations studies program academic adviser
  • Student services counsellor
  • Student counsellor
  • First nations counsellor - education
  • Counsellor for aboriginal students
  • International student adviser
  • Academic skills counsellor
  • Co-op program co-ordinator - school
  • Student employment services co-ordinator
  • Educational guidance director
  • Guidance counsellor
  • Learning and study skills specialist
  • Counselling intern
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Skill type

Education, law and social, community and government services

Related occupations

  • Employment counsellors
  • Family, marriage and other related counsellors
  • Psychologists
  • Secondary school teachers

See also

  • Glossary (PDF 229 Kb)
  • Québec emploi This hyperlink will open in a new window.

Last update: December 22, 2022

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