School Guidance Counselor

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Inspire and guide students to achieve their educational and career goals.
Make a positive impact by supporting students through academic and personal challenges.
Unique role in identifying and addressing students' diverse needs and potential.

💰 Earn $45K-$77K

📚 Master Degree

⏱️ 48 MONTH TRAINING

📈 16.2% JOB GROWTH

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What You’ll Do

Advise and assist students and provide educational and vocational guidance services.

Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs.
Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals.
Counsel individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.

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Minimum Education

Master Degree

Career Prospects

Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)

Training Time

Over 4 years

Job Openings

7,500 Annually

Median Earnings

$52,230 in California

$58,510 Nationally

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Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

Relating with or serving others

You are skilled in 💫

Active Listening
Critical Thinking
Monitoring
Reading Comprehension
Social Perceptiveness
Speaking

You value 🙏

Accomplishing things
Job security
Personal relationships

Deep Dive

School Guidance Counselor

Explore career pathways, key skills, and what each role has to offer.

Pathways to this Career

Learn about the education and training paths that can lead to this career — and what to expect from each one.

Associate's Degree

An associate's degree typically provides graduates with foundational knowledge and skills for entry-level jobs in the graduate's industry, or serves as a stepping stone towards further education.

🎓 College

⏱️ FINISH IN 2-3 years

Bachelor's Degree

A bachelor's degree typically results in increased knowledge about a variety of academic subjects, specialized knowledge in a focused field of study, and is considered the foundational qualification for many careers.

🎓 College

⏱️ FINISH IN 4-5+ years