Self-reflective Essay On Student And Career Advisor Role Play.

Please use simple accurate academic English, not professional
Students are required to complete a ten (10) minute simulated role play which will need to be self - recorded and uploaded for assessment. A scenario brief is available in attached picture. Preferred role play scenario 1 about student and career-advisor
Students are required to complete a written self-reflective essay on the completed role play.

The self-reflection must demonstrate the ability to question one’s own biases, stereotypes, preconceptions, and/or assumptions of the client. You must self-reflect on your use of micro-skills, including: active listening skills, questions, reflection of content, reflection of feeling as well as your nonverbal communication skills (Attending, body language, use of voice, paraphrasing, and summarizing, clarifying questions). Connections between course learning material and your use of practical
skills must be made in order to demonstrate knowledge and insight.

Career Advisor

This essay deals with a self-reflection regarding the role of the carer advisors in lieu of making your understand the gravity of the course that he is going through. You must be related with the conceptualisation regarding what are the future implications if he leaves the course unattended ta this stage. In fact, the assessment of the ideas and implications that the concerned student has regarding the future choices that he has made, re also needed to be done. In this context, the kind and quality of learning that the student is receiving and how that would be helpful for the career scope is also a topic of grave importance.

Career Advisor: Many university level students like you face crisis regarding higher education in Australia. You should know that most of the college students in their higher years, are not enthusiastic about carrying forward their education. However if you think critically, communicate and apprehend cogently, I can help you solve your problems as well as comprehend the complex issues parallely accepting responsibility as well as accountability of the way in which you will drive you career in future. Students like you often face crisis in taking the perspective from others as well as meeting the peer’s or senior’s expectations from them regarding their career.

Student: But you see that on one hand it is claimed that the educational sector is highly emerging in Australia. However I can see that it is hard to motivate myself to complete this course. Instead I find that a professional course that help me to join a firm in 90 days with on spot sign up, should be a better option for me. As I have felt, this stereotypical educational course do not bear a positive foreword.

Career Advisor: As a career advisor, I have realised that the lack of impetus in bridging the gap between teaching and learning is the main reason because of which scenario like this happen. On instances when you are feeling that you are acutely disinterested in your work, and feel that there is a better alternative than the course you are pursuing, I will take an impromptu initiative in enquiring you whether the institutions for higher education is rendering sufficient value which justifies your costs.

Student: However, you see that I suppose that for the resolution of the learning crises of mine, it would require some fundamental as well as thoroughgoing changes in the learning and teaching behaviour as well. I am not acquainted with the ways in which my practical knowledge regarding the job field is going to be enhanced through this course. I am only benefitted through some schedules learning outcomes from this course. I am not sure what workplace I would get in the future. Then, if my current research and study do not suffice my work place needs, do you not think I have wasted $1600 AUD for these two years?

Student

Career Advisor: I think that, it is not only possible to help you by acting as a career guidance professional. Rather, it is more essential to develop a collaborative partnership. Being a career advisor, I can help your with my expertise of theory and knowledge regarding the labour markets and the links with the employers to the table. That would reflect how you would get employment through current course of study. You see, through the professional course that you are planning to do quitting your mainstream course, you can get salary slabs that are lower by $500 to $700 AUD compared to the jobs that you would get after completing this session. However, as Galliott & Graham (2014), advises, in order to motivate and help you, I need to have an acute pedagogic knowledge and develop sustained relationship with the basic problems that you have been facing. For that I will individually look up at the career options that you are considering at he the moment. After that if I feel that the scope of sustained employment is indeed higher in that field, I would not prevent you.

Student: In this context, I feel that in discussion with the post-secondary learning providers, I need to understand how the learnings attained are falling short for the industrial development of mine. On top of all these I also need to know the various opportunities that are open to me and understand whether those opportunities in scope can help me to flourish in future. It is also a fact that I want to enter an industry that can complement my knowledge and expertise gained.

Career Advisor: In terms of understanding the actual career goals and helping you to select the best path, there are six key roles that can be performed from my end. The teachers can be involved in candid conversations regarding how they made their career choices and what strategies they followed in choosing their career courses and high learning courses (Veit, Hustedt & Bach, 2017). A quality pastoral duty also falls under the informal job role of the educators at the university. After my individual sessions, I will arrange sessions with them wherein you will only learn how people who have chosen the course you are pursuing now, have attained success in the future.

Student: Yes, the educators, according to me are well capable of linking the subjects that I am learning with the world of work.

Career Expert

Career Expert: An example can be cited in this context. In case if a teacher parallely with imparting knowledge also renders the knowledge of how one particular learning outcome is utilised for research or industrial gain can actually enhance your perceived  relevance of the curriculum (Aragon et al. 2016). I can talk from one of my personal experiences that discussion regarding the work of the publishers can entice yours of literature for better understanding of how their knowledge can be implemented in their future career scope.

Career Advisor: Again I also feel that in case, if this is done, students would not feel disillusioned towards the course they are currently engaged in to. Ideally, I feel that the employers as well as the workers of top companies who have passed from this university also be invited to ponder over how the knowledge regarding how the skills acquired at the universities can be utilised for the career.

Career Advisor: I personally employ my pedagogic skills for the deliverance of career learning of any student who come for advisory counselling. Career learning is a very distinct area where the individual knowledge base can result in high productivity (Neal, 2018). I have enriched my career education through connections related to curricular as well as cross curricular themes, which involves skills like reading as well as writing.

Career Advisor: The final role that I need to accomplish is identification and establishment of relation with those who leads this curriculum in the colleges. In other countries like America, there is generally a post of middle leadership. Such a leader is essential in the universities of Australia also, who would undertake the responsibilities of spreading this area of education in the colleges in Australia (Stewart, Moore & Council, 2017). I generally involve such spearheads in the universities personally, in lieu of the individual guidance that I provide to my clients. In your case also, an additional charge of only $300 AUD will allow me to engage such an educator for your case.

Student: In this case, I feel that I generally require some senior educator from the domain of university who would guide your regarding the importance of the course that he is accomplishing. On the other hand, you, from your end would be guiding me with advices regarding what additional course work or workshops I can attend that might be staged before time of completion of the course and help me to elevate my initial salary slab also. Conclusion

In the course of this essay, the advisory framework that would be followed for giving career advice to yours is to be reflected. In the first place, you are in a current position where leaving the course would not be helpful for him. Then on, as a career advisory counsellor I need to understand what are the future implications that are seeming current most viable to him. Following up, an evaluative pathway for assessing the stability of career that would follow his way by accomplishing the academic course is needed to be rendered to the student.

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