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 2019 to 2021.- Minimum
- $20.30
- Median
- $25.00
- Maximum
- $31.08
Job prospects for 2022-2026
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Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2021
All of Québec
2,500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 78% Female
- 22% Male
Not available.
- 78% Female
- 22% 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
$44,000
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.
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NAICS 62435% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5625% of jobs
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NAICS 9113% of jobs
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NAICS 8110% of jobs
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NAICS 616% of jobs
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Others11% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 62435% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5625% of jobs
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NAICS 9113% of jobs
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NAICS 8110% of jobs
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NAICS 616% of jobs
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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%
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
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
- 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 4156
Employment counsellors
Job titles
- Employment counsellor
- Career development counsellor
- Labour market information consultant
- Employment consultant
- Employment assistance officer
- Workforce development officer
- Aboriginal employment developer
- Workforce adjustment officer
- Aboriginal employment officer
- Employment services officer
- Employment services assessment officer
- Employment outreach program counsellor
- Employment group counsellor
- Employment services group counsellor
- Relocation counsellor
- Job counsellor - government services
- Employment outreach counsellor
- Career counsellor (except education)
- Outplacement counsellor
- Relocation consultant
- Outplacement consultant
- Career resource centre co-ordinator
- Employment outreach program co-ordinator
- Career group facilitator
- Career development facilitator
- Career coach
- Job search trainer
- Career development practitioner
- Aboriginal employment worker
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: March 27, 2023
