TY - JOUR T1 - The Importance of Professional Counseling and Career Guidance in Technical Faculties AU - Mereuta, Claudiu PY - 2018 DA - September JF - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences JO - EPESS PB - ISRES Publishing WT - DergiPark SN - 2587-1730 SP - 244 EP - 247 VL - 10 LA - en AB - Thepoint of this paper is to prove that the existence and the proper operation ofa center for professional counseling and career guidance are important for thestudents of technical faculties. The analysis of the focus groupresponsesdemonstrateshow necessary and useful is the existence of aninformation center for business and students, how effective is the students’training for social and professional insertion, as well as for their personaldevelopment according to their interests and aspirations. The paper alsoreveals the implication of the professional counseling and career guidance indeveloping their own educational path, related to their skills, in engagingthem in extracurricular activities. It is also relevant to analyze theconvenience of training stages for the development of transversal skills, forpreparing the necessary steps for employment, the opportunity of specializedconferences or volunteer activities, of study visits to companies but also theorganization of cultural and charity events. KW - Counseling KW - Guidance KW - Focus group CR - N. Florea, C. Surlea - Consiliere si orientare, Editura Arves, 2008 M. Jigau - Consiliereacarierei. Un model deschis si flexibil. Editura AFIR, Bucureşti, 2005 A. Mois, M. Plosca – Consiliere privind cariera,Editura Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 2001 International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance-IAEVG.Ethical Standards in Educational and Vocational Guidance. Bulletin, Berlin, nr.58,1996. http://www.snspa.ro/p/centrul-de-consiliere-si-orientare-profesionala UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epess/issue//460327 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/536233 ER -