| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Addiction Counselor |
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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- Counsel clients and patients, individually and in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, and making changes.
- Instruct others in program methods, procedures, and functions.
- Supervise and direct other workers providing services to clients or patients.
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| Rehabilitation Counselor |
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
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- Locate barriers to client employment, such as inaccessible work sites, inflexible schedules, and transportation problems, and work with clients to develop strategies for overcoming these barriers.
- Arrange for physical, mental, academic, vocational, and other evaluations to obtain information for assessing clients' needs and developing rehabilitation plans.
- Participate in job development and placement programs, contacting prospective employers, placing clients in jobs, and evaluating the success of placements.
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| School Counselor |
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
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- Compile and study occupational, educational, and economic information to assist counselees in determining and carrying out vocational and educational objectives.
- Establish contacts with employers to create internship and employment opportunities for students.
- Teach classes and present self-help or information sessions on subjects related to education and career planning.
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