Comparison of counseling methods to promote employment for HIV+ ADULTS

BACKGROUND: Despite improved health and during a strong job market (pre-COVID-19), a substantial proportion of HIV+ adults remained unemployed. This study sought to provide time-limited counseling to promote employment goals. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether behavioral activation (BA) or supportive counseling (SC), would be more effective in promoting vocational goals (full or part-time, paid or volunteer). METHODS: The study included two groups: those with clinically significant fatigue, who were first treated with armodafinil. Once their fatigue diminished, they were enrolled in the counseling program. Those without fatigue were enrolled directly. Both BA and SC interventions were manualized, consisting of eight individual sessions plus a follow-up. RESULTS: 116 participants entered counseling, including 87 assigned to BA and 29 to SC. Of these, 79 completed counseling or found a job by session eight. By follow-up, 51%of BA versus 41%of SC participants had found jobs, a non-significant difference either clinically or statistically. CONCLUSIONS: Multiple issues contributed to difficulty in employment, including gaps in resumes, loss of contact with former colleagues, and uncertainty about career direction. Ongoing barriers included substance use, housing instability, ambivalence about forfeiting government benefits, as well as inadequately treated depression. Success in employment for about half of participants is, in this context, a reasonable outcome.

Analisis Teori Karir Krumboltz: Literature Review

Students must plan and orientate their career direction from an early age. This is done so that the individual knows where the future career is going and what he must do to achieve the planned career. Choosing a major, choosing extracurricular activities that support the direction of career choices also need to be done. School is a place that plays a role in the direction of student career planning. Besides that, parents also make a significant contribution to the direction of student career planning. There are many career development theories that can be used by counseling teachers or counselors in providing career counseling services. One of them is Krumboltz's social theory of learning. Krumboltz theory contributes quite a lot in the direction of career planning for students in schools or employees who will choose a job. Then we will try to review how Krumboltz's theory sees the direction of student career planning.Indonesian Abstract: Individu harus merencanakan dan mengorientasikan kemana arah karirnya sejak dini. Hal ini dilakukan agar individu mengetahui kemana arah karir masa depan dan apa yang harus ia lakukan untuk mencapai karir yang direncanakan tersebut. Memilih jurusan, memilih kegiatan ektrakurikuler yang mendukung arah plihan karir juga perlu dilakukan. Sekolah menjadi wadah yang cukup berperan pada arah perencanaan karir siswa. Disamping itu orangtua juga memberikan kontribusi yang cukup signifikan pada arah perencanaan karir siswa. Banyak teori pengembangan karir yang bisa digunakan oleh guru bimbingan konseling atau konselor dalam memberikan layanan konseling karir. Salah satunya adalah teori sosial belajar Krumboltz. Teori Krumboltz cukup banyak memberikan kontribusi dalam arah perencanaan karir siswa di sekolah ataupun karyawan yang akan memilih pekerjaan. Maka kita akan mencoba mengulas bagaimana teori Krumboltz melihat bagaimana arah perencanaan karir siswa.

Effect of Learning Abroad on the Students’ Career Direction and Employability through Australian-Indonesian Student Mobility Programs

Among key features of the internationalization of higher education, student mobility has been given a big attention by universities and relevant stakeholder to achieve advance knowledge, intercultural skills, intellectual capital, and prospective labour market benefit. The increasing number of Indonesian students studying in Australian universities indicates the development of student mobility collaboration between both nations. Australia has become the most popular destination country for Indonesian students to pursue better education and Indonesia also become one of the destination countries for Australian students to participate in international student mobility program under the New Colombo Plan (NCP). Yet, little is known, about the impact of student mobility program or learning abroad on students’ career direction and employability within the context of both nations. This article is aimed to address this gap by examining the perspectives of participating students and other relevant stakeholders from both countries. It uses Bourdieu’s thinking tools of capital, habitus, field, and the idea of cultural and social reproduction, to capture the picture of how this student mobility program affects the students in relation to their career direction and employability. Findings generated from this research will be beneficial to HEIs and policy makers in Indonesia and Australia so that all involving parties can acquire expected outcomes of this student mobility program.

Experiences of positive career change among female breast cancer survivors: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

This article reports on women’s experiences of career change following a breast cancer diagnosis and explores whether their illness represents the driving force to pursue previously unfulfilled career ambitions. The participants were four women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had changed career direction after their treatment. Data were conducted through in-depth interviews and were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Four themes prominent throughout each women’s narrative were identified: (i) a pre-diagnosis, unhappiness at work, (ii) a sense of stepping off the treadmill, (iii) a sharp focus upon their “self,” and subsequently (iv) a flourishing “work-life.” Further research is needed to investigate how common these findings are among women with breast cancer.

Exploring Perceived Barriers in Career Planning And Counseling Among Students

Career planning is an intensive process that is directed towards the achievement of career goals. One needs to have a career direction to move forward, along with a passion for that career. People desire to achieve professional goals through career planning and seeking counselling at various stages. This research explores the understanding of career planning and counselling among the students and identifies the factors playing a critical role in the career choice of an individual. It also focuses on hurdles faced during the process and the ways to address those issues. The results suggest that factors affecting career planning are environment-based. The hurdles that students come across are also aligned with that. Therefore to strengthen the ability of individuals to have better career planning, career counselling is required to tone up the thoughts of students and make them productive human resource for the country. The practical implications and prospects are discussed.

Study on Career Planning of College Teachers

With the continuous development of society, the demand for cultivating talents in colleges and universities is becoming more and more urgent, and teachers in colleges and universities bear the heavy responsibility of cultivating talents in colleges and universities. High-quality teachers are the backbone of education and teaching in colleges and universities and the reserve army for sustainable development. Through career planning can not only grasp the pulse of the career, grasp the career direction, but also effectively avoid job burnout. This paper mainly analyzes the career planning principles of college teachers, gives the eight links of college teachers' career planning, and also analyzes some problems in the process. sum up, and give the corresponding strategies to provide a good reference for the professional development of young teachers.

Improvement of Information Technology Career Path by using Apriori and Ontology on Mobile Application

In Thailand, the joblessness rate is continually expanding for new graduates. But information technology careers are nevertheless popular in business in this digital age. Finding a way to support students to know the career direction that is suitable for them and is ready before going out for a job is therefore very valuable. However, most students do not know which occupation is best for them and are concern about the need to educate themselves and build up information that is suitable for their current career. This paper presents the Thai mobile application for predicting a student's career based on subject results and guidance of training courses for information technology career path using the Apriori algorithm and ontology technique with the longest matching approach in the process of Thai word segmentation. The developed mobile application was tested in black box by experts and evaluated the satisfaction by users. The result shows that the developed mobile application was the highest effective with the high consensus for the evaluation of user satisfaction.