This document discusses career guidance and outlines the roles and responsibilities of various Philippine government agencies in providing career guidance services. It describes career guidance as helping people manage their career development through services like career choice assistance, job search help, advancement advice, and motivation. It also establishes guidelines for conducting an annual Career Guidance Week and developing an action plan where agencies like DepEd, TESDA, DOLE, CHED, DOST and PRC will collaborate to provide career resources and information to students.

1. CAREER
GUIDANCE
ANITA E. GUANZON
Limay National High School

2. WHAT IS
CAREER
GUIDANCE?
Consists of services that
help people successfully
manage their career
development.

3. SERVICES RENDERED BY
CAREER GUIDANCE
 CAREER CHOICE
ASSISTANCE
 JOB SEARCH HELP
 ADVANCEMENT ADVICE
 JOB LOSS RECOVERY
 MOTIVATION
 CAREER CHANGE

4. CAREER CHOICE ASSISTANCE
 Career guidance often involve assisting students
and adults who are trying to choose a career.
Career development professionals may
administer tools, to help them learn about their
interests, values, skills and personality type. They
can educate individuals about how to explore
occupations that are most suitable based on that
information and then ultimately teach them how
to decide which one is the best choice.
JOB SEARCH HELP
 Helping you choose a career would be pointless
if you didn’t know how to find a job in your field of
choice. In job search assistance, we generally
don’t learn these things in the classroom, so
most people don’t have these necessary skills
when they begin to look for employment.

5. ADVANCEMENT ADVICE
 While most people seek help with issues that occur
very early in career development, such as choosing
a career or securing a first job, career guidance
services also include providing advice about career
development.
JOB LOSS RECOVERY
 Losing a job is devastating both financially and
emotionally.
MOTIVATION
 Career guidance services can push you not to give
up whether you are stuck in an unsuccessful job
search, campaign on having trouble deciding
whether to change career.
 Many people do not stay in the same occupation for
their working lives, and in fact, some change career
multiple times. For that reason, career guidance also
includes advising those who are making this kind of
transaction about topics such as job retraining and
transferable skills.

6. WHO ARE THE CAREER
GUIDANCE PROVIDER
 Professionals who provide career
guidance include career counselors
and career development facilitators.
School guidance counselors provide
these services to high school
students.

7. DepEd ORDER No.
25,
s. 2013
GUIDELINES ON THE CONDUCT
OF CAREER GUIDANCE WEEK
FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
EFFECTIVE SCHOOL YEAR
2013-2014

8.  The Career Guidance Week celebration is envisioned to
prevent too much waste of resources including time
being spent in producing graduates in the tertiary level
as well as in technical vocational education who could
not meet the qualification standards in the labor market.
Mismatch between 1) interest/aptitude and career; 2)
career and labor demand; 3) education/training and
career results from uninformed and misguided students.
 In line with the goal of K to 12 Basic Education Program
to produce graduates who are ready for higher
education, middle level skills development, employment
and entrepreneurship, the Department of Education
(DepEd) in collaboration with the Career Guidance
Advocacy Program-Working Group (CGAP-WG), an
inter-agency group under the President’s Human
Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC)
issues the enclosed GUIDELINES ON THE CONDUCT
OF CAREER GUIDANCE WEEK FOR HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS EFFECTIVE SCHOOL YEAR 2013-2014,
which shall be celebrated every last week of July.

10.  This strategy is proposed to provide career and labor
market information using the social network hubs in the
internet such as blog, Facebook and Twitter, which are
very popular to the youth today as well as other
stakeholders in the youths’ career – the parents,
teachers, guidance counselors and their communities, as
the medium to make these useful information accessible
to its target readers.
CAREER GUIDANCE
THROUGH SOCIAL
NETWORKS
 Specifically the project aims to achieve the following:
 Create a blog site for career and labor market
information
 Upload timely write-ups and updates on career and
labor market information solicited from professionals,
practitioners of various jobs in the blog site
 Dissimenate widely information about the blog site
for wide readership

11. Specific Approaches
The CGAP-WG members commit to do the following:
DOLE
1. Coordinate with participating agencies in updating
the directory of all PESOs and Network of RGCs
and CAs;
2. Develop and disseminate LMI publications ex.(
career information pamphlets, industry career
guides, etc.)
3. Provide capacity building to partners, particularly to
the officers and members of the NGC and Cas; and
4. Monitor the career advocacy activities of the
PESOs and Network of RGCs and Cas.
ACTION PLAN

12. DepEd
1. Conduct massive advocacy campaign on the
Enhanced Basic Education Program (E-BEP),
including career exploration and orientation;
2. Conduct orientation and/or training for RGCs, Cas,
parents, and guardians on the content of Edukasyon
sa Pagpapakatao modules in Quarter 4 of Grades 7
and 9 on Career Guidance and the National Career
Aptitude Examination (NCAE);
3. Develop modules on Career Guidance showing its
integration in relevant learning areas in coordination
with partner agencies; and
4. Identify entry points in the E-BEP where career
guidance is integrated as provided in the E-BEP IRR,
i.e., integrate career concepts in the curriculum,
conduct regular career assessment, career advocacy,
activities, continuous professionalization of guidance
counselors, Cas, and peer facilitators, develop or
accredit career advocacy unit with adequate office
space, and designate division-level guidance
supervisors and school-level CAs.

13. DOST
1. Conduct activities in line with the advocacy
campaign, such as, but not limited to, Science
Gamp, Tagisang Robotics, Career Talks, etc.
2. Advance the use of DOST’s Science Explorer and
Mobile IT Classrooms; and
3. Implement scholarship programs in priority S & T
courses.
CHED
1. Promote the Guidance Counseling profession,
including other courses that are in-demand and
market-responsive, through the mainstream and other
forms of media;
2. Conduct Regionalized Career Guidance Week Info
Blitz; and
3. Promote CHED scholarship programs in priority
courses.

14. TESDA
1. Promote the advantages of TVET and its various
training programs, including the Apprenticeship
Program;
2. Conduct advocacy on Training for Work
Scholarship Program (TWSP), Private Education
Student Fund Assistance (PESFA), Philippine
Qualifications Framework (POF), and Youth
Profiling for Starting Careers (YP4SC);
3. Conduct career fairs and jobs bridging activities in
the regions; and
4. Administer the Career Profiling.

15. PRC
1. Implement a communication plan on updated and
accurate information on over-supplied and under-
supplied professions;
2. Undertake Assessment for Professions for
Competitiveness including Supply and Demand of
each Profession;
3. Coordinate the PRBs in providing speakers on the
current regulatory professions on the conduct of
career guidance and employment coaching
activities to aid students and jobseekers make an
informed career choice;
4. Monitor the implementation of Continuing
Professional Education; and
5. Conduct of appreciation session on career guidance
for CGAP-WG.

19. NAME GAME
Acronyms Definitions Head of Office
DepEd Dept. Of Education Sec. Armin
Luistro
CHED
DOLE
DOST
PRC
TESDA