Author(s)

Ximeng Hu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Linyi Vocational College, Linyi, Shandong, China

Corresponding Author

Ximeng Hu

ABSTRACT

Counselors in vocational colleges play a crucial role in guiding students' career development, and their career guidance capabilities directly impact students' employment quality and career prospects. However, current deficiencies in counselors' career guidance abilities highlight the need for improvement through policy support, systematic training programs, resource optimization, and role transformation. This paper explores the importance of enhancing counselors' career guidance capacities, analyzes existing shortcomings and challenges, and proposes practical strategies for improvement. These strategies include strengthening theoretical and practical training, optimizing resource allocation, building industry-college collaboration platforms, and establishing effective incentive mechanisms. The article emphasizes that only through policy refinement, systematic training, and multi-stakeholder collaboration can counselors' career guidance abilities meet the evolving needs of students and societal demands, thereby promoting the high-quality development of vocational education in colleges.

KEYWORDS

Vocational colleges; counselors; career guidance capabilities; industry-college collaboration

CITE THIS PAPER

Ximeng Hu, Enhancement Strategies for Career Guidance Capabilities of Vocational College Counselors. Advances in Vocational and Technical Education (2025) Vol. 7: 24-31. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/avte.2025.070104.

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