career guide

Professional path counselor

A career guide is a resource—book, website, counselor, or mentor—that helps people navigate professional choices.

Career guides offer advice on job searching, resume writing, interviewing, and long-term planning: The career guide recommended informational interviews.

The term also describes a person who provides such guidance: She worked as a career guide at the community college.

services

assessment

Formal evaluation of worth

advising · planning · exploration · transition · placement · resume · interview prep · job search · networking · aptitude testing

development

goals

Intended end results

potential · aptitude · skills · interests · strengths · values · progression · advancement · growth · trajectory

profession

counselor

One who advises

consultant · specialist · practitioner · facilitator · navigator · strategist · planner · expert · professional · certified

resources

handbook

Compact reference guide

platform · directory · personality test · job board · database · templates · worksheets · checklist · podcast · webinar

Categories
Opposites
purpose/function

career guiderésumé

Career summary document

CV · curriculum vitae · work history · job application · performance review

direction/agency

career guidedead-end job

Position lacking advancement opportunity

glass ceiling · bad advice

life domain

career guidetravel guide

Resource for visitors

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G