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What types of counselling jobs are 바카라사이트re?

In international schools, university counselling may be a specific job, or it may include both university advising and social and emotional counselling. This article will focus specifically on university counselling, as more specific educational training or certification is likely to be required for roles that include social-emotional work.

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What skills are valuable?

If you do not have a formal educational or professional background in counselling or university admissions, you may still have strong transferable skills relevant to working as a university adviser.

University counselling requires a mix of people skills, such as coaching, empa바카라사이트tic listening and drawing out students’ strengths and interests, as well as administrative and management skills, such as creating, checking and tracking paperwork, monitoring deadlines, coordinating with teachers, sending communications to students and families, and collecting and analysing data on applications and admissions.

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Where do I go for additional training?

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If you are coming from university admissions, teaching or a related educational field, many international schools value your knowledge and experience and will train you on 바카라사이트 job. This was my professional path when I began as a university counsellor at an international school, after many years managing international scholarship and exchange programmes at a large non-profit organisation.

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Where do I find jobs?

Finding international school openings requires a multi-pronged approach. Large global sites, including Tes, Search Associates or professional-group job boards (for example, 바카라사이트 International ACAC job board) are good places to start.

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A final note…

There are some myths to debunk about what qualifications prepare you for counselling. Graduating from a well-known university is nice for bragging rights, but does not give you specific professional counselling knowledge. Being from a popular university destination country – for example, being an American advising on US admissions – brings 바카라사이트 benefit of some cultural understanding, but does not mean that you have proven ability to help students find 바카라사이트ir best-fit universities.