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Career Guidance & Counselling
Guidance
Our guidance counsellor provides our students with support, information, advice, and guidance throughout their time in Coláiste Éamann Rís. Students from all years can avail of one-to-one meetings, both Careers aspects and counselling.
The aim is to assist students in four main areas: Personal, Social. Academic and Career development. The role is a mixture of “Guidance” and “Counselling”.
Guidance For Careers Helps Students With Their Career By:
- Finding & understanding information about college courses, including OPEN DAYS in Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) like UCC, MTU and other national HEI colleges, and Further Education (FE) Institutions like St. John’s (Douglas Street), College of Commerce (Morrison’s Island) and Coláiste Stiofan Naoimhe (Tramore Road) campuses and other FE Institutions.
- Identifying strengths, interests, personality, and skills
- Learning how to plan the next stage in a students life
- Learning about the world of work
- Learning about CVs, application forms ( colleges and work) and preparing for interviews.
- Career classes are timetabled throughout the Senior Cycle (TY to 5th Year, and meetings in 6th Year).
Students’ self-knowledge and decisions are helpful through Aptitude Testing, Interest Inventories, IT Programmes, Career Investigation and access to internet investigation.
Visits to career events and colleges, presentations by speakers from colleges/industry/youth welfare and support groups are arranged throughout the year.
Guidance Academically Helps Students To Learn How To:
Understand how school can help them to:
- Learn how to study more effectively.
- Improve exam techniques
- Get information about subject choices.
- Learn about exams and qualifications of the National Framework.
Guidance Socially Also Helps Students To:
- Learn about relationships
- Understand feelings and needs
- Learn how to make important decisions
- Learn how to make plans
Counselling at CÉR
Counselling offers a student a chance to talk to someone in a private, caring and non-judgemental place. Students are very welcome to make their own appointments or can be referred by teachers, and other members of our school community parents/guardians and by friends. Our guidance counsellor will do everything possible to listen, understand, clarify and help students to make their own decisions. Counselling offers students help with a wide range of issues. generally feel mixed up, relationships problems, family problems, dealing with anger outbursts, loss of a loved one, bullying, low self-confidence, worried about the future, difficulties getting use to a new school, exam stress, drug and alcohol use, body image, identity, peer pressure, abuse (psychological, physical or sexual) and self-harm.