Educational Counsellors
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 2020 to 2022.- Minimum
- $34.07
- Median
- $43.96
- Maximum
- $49.45
Job prospects for 2022-2026
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Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2021
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 81.7% Female
- 18.3% Male
- 81.7% Female
- 18.3% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
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
-
NAICS 6191% of jobs
-
NAICS 6242% of jobs
-
NAICS 912% of jobs
-
NAICS 5416, 54171% of jobs
-
NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
-
Others3% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 6191% of jobs
-
NAICS 6242% of jobs
-
NAICS 912% of jobs
-
NAICS 5416, 54171% of jobs
-
NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
-
Others3% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
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%
Multidisciplinary (Educational sciences)
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 69.3%
28% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 72.4%
17.3% of graduates pursue further studies
- 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
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
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.
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
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: April 28, 2023
