Hi Eric,

Hope the attached links provide you some helpful literature.

Regards

http://www.nationalforum.com/Electronic%20Journal%20Volumes/Lunenburg,%20Fred%20C.%20School%20Guidance%20and%20Counseling%20Services%20Schooling%20V1%20N1%202010.pdf

https://spu.edu/orgs/research/WSRC%20Report%20CGCP%202003.pdf

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1081671.pdf

© 2015IJSRSET | Volume 1 | Issue 3| Print ISSN : 2395-1990| Online ISSN : 2394-4099Themed Section: Engineering and Technology229A Web Based Career Guidance Information System for Pre-Tertiary Institution Students in Nigeria

Abisoye Opeyemi A.1, Alabi I. O.2, Ganiyu Shefiu O.3, , Abisoye Blessing O4, Omokore Josiah51MSc. (Computer Science), Federal University of Technology,Department of Computer Science,  Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.2MSc. (Info. Tech),Federal University of Technology,Department of Information and Media Technology,  Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.3MSc. (Inf. Sc), Federal University of Technology,Department of Information and Media TechnologyMinna, Niger State, Nigeria.4MEng.(Electrical Engineering), Federal University of Technology,Information Technology Services, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria.5BSc.(Computer Science), Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology, Minna Niger State, Nigeria

.ABSTRACT Web  Based  Career  Guidance  is  very  important  to  our  Educational  System.  We  have  an  existing  Manual  Career Guidance System with human counselors in charge, but this system is plagued with the following problems: few number  of  human  counselors,  unavailabilityof  a  counselor  in  a  good  number  of  schools,  few  number  of counselors attending to students during school hours and the office of a counselor in schools are so unpopular that students  hardly  meet  them  for  career  counseling.  We  have  been  able  to  design  an  Online  Career  Guidance Information  System  targeting  students  in  pre  tertiary  institutions  in  Nigeria  to  solve  the  afore-mentioned problems.The  Online  Web  Based  Career  Guidance  system  was  designed  and  implemented  using  data  collected from  interviewing  human  counselors  and  surveys.  The  following  scripting  languages  were  employed:  PHP, MySQL, HTML, Java Script and CSS. The system was implemented and tested with 50 students and 76% of them found the career system very useful.Keywords: Web,Career, Guidance, information system, Educational System, CounselorsI.INTRODUCTIONGuidance is a term sometimes used broadly to refer to advising  or  helping  an  individual  with  any  kind  of educational,  vocational  or  personal  problem.  It  can also  be  referred  to  as  a  service  provided  by  the particular  school  to  help  young  persons  in  making clever  decision  and  changes  so  as  to  develop  their potentials as an individual and a contributing member of   the   society.   Guidance   activities   are   usually associated  with  educational  professionals  known  as counselors  as  well  as  the  involvement  of  parents, relatives,  teachers,  administrators,  other  educational specialists,  spiritual  leaders  etc.  The  meaning  is  so broad  that  it  does  not  deal  with  education  alone  but also aspects of life that affects an individual, therefore we can say that guidance is also a process of helping a   person   to   realize   and   grow   his/her   vocational, educational,  and  psychological  potentials  and  also achieving  an  the  best  level  of  individual  happiness and societal usefulness. Career   guidance   consists   of   services   that   help people successfully manage their career development.   Although   this   aspect   of   human development  occurs  on  its  own  as  we  mature, everyone  can  benefit  from  assistance  navigating through     this     process.(Dawn,     2012).     Career guidance is a set of intervention strategies designedto  ease  the  career  development  of  the  individual. Career  guidance  is  a  broad  term,  which  includes the development of job search, on interview skills, placement  into  a  chosen  vocation,  and  follows  up the  placement  to  ensure  effectiveness.  In  career guidance,   counseling   is   used   as   one   of   the interventional strategies.The British Association of Counselors (BAC) now the   BACP,   were   the   very   first   professional association that adopted a definition of 

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Hi Eric,

I can help you out by sending you an article I wrote about 20 years ago in the Journal for the Advancement of Counselling.

Kind regards,

Paul Herfs.

Article Student counselling at Utrecht University

20 years is quite old, but you may please send it to me. Those within the last 5 years would be much appreciated