The Efficacy of Career Counseling on Job Retention among Employees
An Analysis of Empirical Literature Review
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https://doi.org/10.58216/kjri.v5i1.49Keywords:
Career, Efficacy, Performance, Market EconomyAbstract
Career-related decision-making, career erudition/progress and development are as a result of considered and enviable results from a broad array of interventions required to shore up individuals in making flourishing career transitions all the way through their lifetimes. However, achieving precision about the accurate nature of the interventions required to achieve these outcomes, and the conditions essential to support their thriving execution is not clear-cut. Even at a fundamental level, the nature of career decision-making and career counseling is, itself, contested this is due to the Changes in the labour market for instance the advancement of information technology and globalization which have challenged the relevance of the career counseling, the view of career change is a one-off experience in an individualâ's development, substituting it with a wider indulgent of how transitions into, and throughout, career counseling, instruction and service are more multifaceted, more stretched and often span lifetimes Whereas the cutthroat benefit for organizations in the previous economy centered on pecuniary investment and expertise, the new market dictate stressing on investment in human capital, skills, and the dedication and zeal of the employees. The center of attention in the business world has shifted from corporeal assets to information and knowledge such as intellectual capital. Career guidance helps people to reflect on their aspiration, interests, experience and capability. It helps them to comprehend the labour market and edification systems, and to transmit this to what they discern in relation to themselves.
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