| Important Core Job Duties (in order of importance) For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 99 (%) | Description: Attend meetings, educational conferences, and training workshops, and serve on committees. |
| Importance: 98 (%) | Description: Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning. |
| Importance: 96 (%) | Description: Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks. |
| Importance: 93 (%) | Description: Counsel individuals or groups to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations. |
| Importance: 92 (%) | Description: Provide students with information on topics such as college degree programs and admission requirements, financial aid opportunities, trade and technical schools, and apprenticeship programs. |
| Importance: 92 (%) | Description: Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations. |
| Importance: 88 (%) | Description: Refer students to outside counseling services. |
| Importance: 87 (%) | Description: Refer students to degree programs based on interests, aptitudes, or educational assessments. |
| Importance: 87 (%) | Description: Assess needs for assistance, such as rehabilitation, financial aid, or additional vocational training, and refer clients to the appropriate services. |
| Importance: 87 (%) | Description: Plan and conduct orientation programs and group conferences to promote the adjustment of individuals to new life experiences, such as starting college. |
| Importance: 86 (%) | Description: Address community groups, faculty, and staff members to explain available counseling services. |
| Importance: 85 (%) | Description: Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools. |
| Importance: 84 (%) | Description: Plan, direct, and participate in recruitment and enrollment activities. |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Teach classes and present self-help or information sessions on subjects related to education and career planning. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: Review transcripts to ensure that students meet graduation or college entrance requirements, and write letters of recommendation. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Evaluate students' or individuals' abilities, interests, and personality characteristics, using tests, records, interviews, or professional sources. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Conduct follow-up interviews with counselees to determine if their needs have been met. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Instruct individuals in career development techniques, such as job search and application strategies, resume writing, and interview skills. |
| Importance: 72 (%) | Description: Collaborate with teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of school programs and in the preparation of master schedules for curriculum offerings. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Provide information for teachers and staff members involved in helping students or graduates identify and pursue employment opportunities. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Plan and promote career and employment-related programs and events, such as career planning presentations, work experience programs, job fairs, and career workshops. |
Child Development Careers and Jobs
Select, Find and Prepare for Child Development Careers and Jobs - all on one page
For people who want to work directly with young children in care, education, or intervention settings. Use the tools below to see which child development roles fit your background and goals.
This major is the direct pathway into early-childhood-focused careers and typically requires state-specific coursework/permits to work in licensed childcare settings. Use the tools below to explore Child Development-related job titles sorted by growth rate, salary, or required education. You can start with entry points like Preschool Teacher Aide, or look ahead to advanced roles such as Child Development Center Director or Program Coordinator. Along the way, you will see specific certifications, such as Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential, that can help you move up the career ladder.
Here is a short Helper Video 
This page will take you through 4 steps to (1) Select from Child Development careers/jobs, (2) Find Child Development job listings, (3) Prepare for Child Development careers, and (4) Provide Child Development career-specific resources.
Step 1: Select a Career/Job: This page starts with 4 ways for you to identify and select from listings of Child Development careers/jobs:
A) Fastest Growing Child Development Careers - 2023 to 2033 (est.)
These listings are based on job growth estimates and helps you to identify the fastest growing and evolving Child Development careers. Some careers may not initially seem related to Child Development, so relevant Child Development jobs are listed alongside each listing. This can also help us to identify which careers (bottom of the listing) may have negative growth - perhaps due to automation or planned obsolescence.
B) Median Annual Salary U.S. Child Development Careers
These listings are sorted (descending) by median annual salary in the U.S. This may help us to identify our ideal career. We may not qualify at this time for the desired career, but this listing and the results provided can help us to explore job details, as well as learn how to appropriately prepare for the career.
C) Child Development Career Ladders (Educational Requirements)
These listings will help us to identify Child Development careers sorted by educational requirements (with the most difficult to obtain listed first). This may help us to identify career ladders (as we scroll down the list), and help us to get jobs that we qualify for now.
D) Select From a Listing of 101 Child Development Jobs.
The list may be quite long. There are two ways you might like to use this list:
1) Filter - As you enter a word, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles
2) Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
Once you have identified a job title of interest, simply click on it.
Step 2: Find a Job: After you have selected a career/job title above, you will see a form asking for your location. You will see several radio selection choices to utilize the job search site of your choice.
Step 3: Prepare For a Career: In this section you will gain access to detailed information to help you prepare for the chosen career. Information may include (not every career choice includes all of the elements below - updates occur quarterly):
Core Duties: Lists the primary worker-related tasks performed in this occupation
Supplemental Duties: Lists additional tasks that are performed but are secondary to the core duties
Work Activities: Summarizes the broad types of behaviors and actions related to this career
Specific Work Activities: Provides more granular day-to-day activities tied to the work performed
Essential Skills: Provides foundational skills that are core to performing this specific occupation
Transferable Skills: Provides career-portable skills that can be applied across multiple occupations and industries
Day-in-the-Life Summaries: Provides a snapshot of the key activities performed on a typical workday in this career
Knowledge Required: Provides the requirements regarding the acquisition of facts and principles
Software Skills: Lists software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized by category and priority
Preparation Required: Provides a summary of the required experience and education
Education Required: Detailed breakdown of the education required
Training and Experience Required: Detailed breakdown of the training and Training and Experience Required
Local Salary Information: Provides national and local salary ranges
Certifications: Provides appropriate government and private-sector certifications and/or credentials that may be required
Professional Associations: Provides professional associations that are related to the career selected
Job Listings: Provides links to active current job listings for the selected career, along with multiple similar job titles to explore. All information appears on this page without navigating away.
Related Careers to Consider: Lists up to 20 careers that might be of interest to you (related to your initial choice - what they do, what they know, and what they're called), ranked by best fit.
** If you clicked on a link from section D (as described in Step 1 above), you will see one or more links to an occupation that is usually a bit more general than your initial job selection - the link(s) is directly related to the specific job you identified through your prior selections.
*NOTE: It is possible that there may not be a career path identified for the specific job you selected in Step 1. If this is the case, scroll up the page and click on a different career/job.
Step 4: Career-Specific Resources (detailed and constantly updated): Continue to scroll down the page and you will find tabs that provide detailed (updated) links specific to the career you selected. This information includes:
Videos: Provides a listing of video links related to this career. A great way to get a quick overview of the occupation.
Resumes: Sources for resume materials and techniques. This can help to get you started.
Job Description: Sources that provide job descriptions, which are vital to resume and interview preparation.
Interviews: Provides links that can help you to prepare for and successfully complete the job interview. Can also assist with coffee chats.
Step by Step: Provides links to resources that can help to organize the career search process.
LinkedIn: One of the best professional social media sites that provides links, opportunities, and networking specifically for careers and career development.
Step 1 of 4: Select a Career/Job
22 Child Development careers are listed below (sorted by Percentage Change in Total Job Openings - 2023 to 2033 est.). Child Development-related jobs specific to each career are also provided. This shows which careers are emerging and growing the fastest. Please Scroll and Select below:
| Occupations | U.S. Job Openings 2023-2033 (% change) | Child Development-Related Jobs |
28 Child Development careers are listed below (sorted by U.S. National Median Salary). Child Development-related jobs specific to each occupation are also provided. Please Scroll and Select below::
| Occupations | National Median Salary | Child Development-Related Jobs |
32 Child Development careers are listed (sorted by Education/Preparation Requirements - descending) to provide career ladders. Child Development-related jobs specific to each career are also provided.
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Education/Preparation Categories: 5 = Usually requires graduate school (e.g., Master's degree, Ph.D., M.D., or J.D.) 4 = Usually requires a four-year Bachelor's degree 3 = Usually requires vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or Associate's degree 2 = Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, but not always Please Scroll and Select below: |
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| Occupations | Education/Preparation | Child Development-Related Jobs |
Scroll through the picklist (below). There are 101 specific Child Development job titles listed. Select those that may be of interest - you will get active job listing links, along with detailed resources to help you prepare for a career related to that job.
You can use this form two ways:
Filter - As you enter a keyword, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles below
Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
OR - leave blank and scroll through the choices:
Select a Job Title (Scroll and Select) :
Step 2 of 4: Find a Job
Find Job Listings:
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors.
Step 3 of 4: Prepare For a Career
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
Description: Advise and assist students and provide educational and vocational guidance services.
Please click on a section below to expand and see detailed occupational information related to "Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors":
U.S. Total Employment (2023):
322,000U.S. Total Employment (2033 est.):
359,000
Employment Change (2023-2033 est.):
37,000 (11.5%) Average Annual Job Openings (2023-2033 est.):
35,000
Core Duties
Supplemental Duties
| Important Supplemental Job Duties (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals. |
| Importance: 63 (%) | Description: Supervise, train, and direct professional staff and interns. |
| Importance: 61 (%) | Description: 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. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Provide students with disabilities with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Compile and study occupational, educational, and economic information to assist counselees in determining and carrying out vocational and educational objectives. |
| Importance: 59 (%) | Description: Establish and enforce administration policies and rules governing student behavior. |
| Importance: 57 (%) | Description: Refer qualified counselees to employers or employment services for job placement. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Establish and supervise peer-counseling and peer-tutoring programs. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Observe students during classroom and play activities to evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health. |
| Importance: 45 (%) | Description: Establish contacts with employers to create internship and employment opportunities for students. |
| Importance: 40 (%) | Description: Provide special services such as alcohol and drug prevention programs and classes that teach students to handle conflicts without resorting to violence. |
| Importance: 36 (%) | Description: Interview clients to obtain information about employment history, educational background, and career goals, and to identify barriers to employment. |
Work Activities
| Important General Work Activities (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
| Importance: 94 (%) | Description: Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
| Importance: 92 (%) | Description: Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
| Importance: 89 (%) | Description: Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
| Importance: 88 (%) | Description: Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
| Importance: 86 (%) | Description: Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics. |
| Importance: 85 (%) | Description: Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
| Importance: 85 (%) | Description: Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Communicating with People Outside the Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
| Importance: 79 (%) | Description: Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
| Importance: 77 (%) | Description: Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
| Importance: 77 (%) | Description: Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
| Importance: 75 (%) | Description: Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
| Importance: 72 (%) | Description: Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
| Importance: 72 (%) | Description: Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. |
| Importance: 70 (%) | Description: Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
| Importance: 61 (%) | Description: Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
Specific Work Activities
| Important Specific Work Activities
How can you begin to build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. Specific Work Activities appear below: |
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| Advise others on social or educational issues. | |
| Analyze market conditions or trends. | |
| Assess educational needs of students. | |
| Assess individual or community needs for educational or social services. | |
| Assist clients in handling details of daily life. | |
| Collaborate with other professionals to assess client needs or plan treatments. | |
| Collaborate with other professionals to develop education or assistance programs. | |
| Compile data or documentation. | |
| Complete documentation required by programs or regulations. | |
| Confer with family members to discuss client treatment plans or progress. | |
| Counsel clients or patients regarding personal issues. | |
| Counsel clients regarding educational or vocational issues. | |
| Counsel clients regarding interpersonal issues. | |
| Develop educational policies. | |
| Develop educational programs. | |
| Develop working relationships with others to facilitate program activities. | |
| Evaluate characteristics of individuals to determine needs or eligibility. | |
| Evaluate potential problems in home or work environments of clients. | |
| Help clients get needed services or resources. | |
| Intervene in crisis situations to assist clients. | |
| Interview clients to gather information about their backgrounds, needs, or progress. | |
| Lead classes or community events. | |
| Maintain professional social services knowledge. | |
| Monitor student performance. | |
| Observe individuals' activities to gather information or compile evidence. | |
| Plan programs to address community mental wellness needs. | |
| Present social services program information to the public. | |
| Promote educational institutions or programs. | |
| Refer clients to community or social service programs. | |
| Refer individuals to educational or work programs. | |
| Supervise workers providing client or patient services. | |
| Teach life skills or strategies to clients or their families. | |
| Train staff members in social services skills. | |
| Update professional knowledge. | |
| Write reports or evaluations. | |
Knowledge Required
| Knowledge Required (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 80 (%) | Description: Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar. |
| Importance: 70 (%) | Description: Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. |
| Importance: 61 (%) | Description: Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology. |
Essential Skills
| Essential Skills (in order of importance)
These are the foundational skills most central to success in this occupation. For the Top 5 most important, how can you begin building experience and confidence using these skills now? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Importance: 68 (%) | Description: Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
Transferable Skills
| Transferable Skills (in order of importance)
These are skills that can transfer across occupations and industries. For the Top 5 most important, how can you strengthen these skills now so they support both this career and future career flexibility? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 68 (%) | Description: Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Instructing: Teaching others how to do something. |
| Importance: 60 (%) | Description: Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
Day-in-the-Life Summaries
| Day-in-the-Life Summaries These summaries show the main types of activities you are likely to perform on a regular basis in this occupation. How can you imagine your typical workday — using these examples to see if this type of work fits you? |
| Activity: Advise others on educational or vocational matters. |
| Activity: Analyze market or industry conditions. |
| Activity: Assess living, work, or social needs or status of individuals or communities. |
| Activity: Assess student capabilities, needs, or performance. |
| Activity: Assist individuals with special needs. |
| Activity: Assist others to access additional services or resources. |
| Activity: Collaborate in the development of educational programs. |
| Activity: Compile records, documentation, or other data. |
| Activity: Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care. |
| Activity: Counsel others about personal matters. |
| Activity: Develop educational programs, plans, or procedures. |
| Activity: Develop professional relationships or networks. |
| Activity: Develop public or community health programs. |
| Activity: Explain medical information to patients or family members. |
| Activity: Interview people to obtain information. |
| Activity: Investigate individuals' background, behavior, or activities. |
| Activity: Maintain current knowledge in area of expertise. |
| Activity: Monitor individual behavior or performance. |
| Activity: Prepare legal or regulatory documents. |
| Activity: Present research or technical information. |
| Activity: Promote products, services, or programs. |
| Activity: Provide information or assistance to the public. |
| Activity: Supervise personnel activities. |
| Activity: Teach academic or vocational subjects. |
| Activity: Teach life skills. |
| Activity: Train others on operational or work procedures. |
Software Skills
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Software Skills These are examples of software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized from most to least important for your career preparation. How can you start learning or practicing the highest-priority tools so that you feel confident using them on the job? |
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Preparation Required
| Preparation Required - How much preparation is needed to obtain this type of job? |
| Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed |
| Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job. |
| Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree). |
| Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training. |
| These occupations often involve coordinating, training, supervising, or managing the activities of others to accomplish goals. Very advanced communication and organizational skills are required. Examples include pharmacists, lawyers, astronomers, biologists, clergy, physician assistants, and veterinarians. |
Education Required
| Education Required - by frequency of educational attainment This shows you details about the level of education most commonly held by workers in this occupation. How can you begin planning the educational pathway that will prepare you best for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Education |
| Frequency of Attainment: 56.3 (%) | Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 40.7 (%) | Level of Education: Master's Degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 2.5 (%) | Level of Education: Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 0.5 (%) | Level of Education: Post-Master's Certificate |
Training and Experience Required
| Training and Experience Required - by frequency of training and work experience attainment This section shows you how often different types of training and work experience are required for this occupation. How can you start gaining the kinds of experience and training that are most common for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience |
| Frequency of Attainment: 38.4 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 35.7 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 9.2 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 7.7 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year |
| Frequency of Attainment: 5.8 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months |
| Frequency of Attainment: 3.2 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: None |
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Certifications
| Certifications These are examples of certifications that may be important for this occupation. How can you begin exploring which certifications fit your goals and what steps you would need to take to earn them? |
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Certified Career Counselor Educator
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Certified Clinical Supervisor of Career Counseling
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Certified Executive Resume Master
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Certified Resume Specialist: Accounting and Finance
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Certified School Career Development Advisor
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Certified Workforce Professional
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Life and Annuity Certified Professional
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National Board Certification - Early Childhood through Young Adulthood - School Counseling
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National Certified School Counselor
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National Social Security Advisor
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Nationally Certified Resume Writer
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Professional Certified Coach
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Professional Associations
| Professional Associations These associations connect people who work in this occupation or related fields. How can you start using these associations to learn more, build your network, or find mentoring opportunities? |
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American Board of Vocational Experts (ABVE)
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American School Counselor Association (ASCA)
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Association for Career and Technical Education Research (ACTER)
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Career Directors International (CDI)
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Career Planning and Adult Development Network
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Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE)
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Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE)
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Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA)
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International Association of Workforce Professionals (IAWP)
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International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
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National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)
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National Employment Counseling Association (NECA)
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Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches (PARW/CC)
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Job Listings
| Job Listings and Similar Occupational Titles - scroll and click to identify common requirements, keywords, and skills in current job listings |
Related Careers to Consider
Step 4 of 4: Career-Specific Resources
This section contains detailed external resources appropriate to "Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors". Explore these resources to start learning more. Links are constantly updated, so bookmark this page.
Videos
Here is a listing of videos related to this career. A great way to get a quick overview of the occupation.
Resumes
Here are resources that allow you to see example resumes for this occupation. It may be helpful to see examples from others who have this type of experience.
Job Description
Here are resources that provide job descriptions, which are vital for resume and interview preparation.
Interviews
There are many great resources that can help guide you through the interview process. These links provide help in preparing and performing an effective interview, specific to this occupation.
Step-by-Step
Here are links to help guide you, step-by-step, to become a(n): Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
LinkedIn®
Here are links to various posts and groups from LinkedIn ® that relate to this occupation. Great way to start building professional contacts in the field that might be most appropriate for you.
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