Overview & Salary

Overview

Advise and assist students and provide educational and vocational guidance services.

On the job, you would:

  • Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
  • Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
  • Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.

Education

  • bachelor's degree
  • master's degree

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $43,580
Annual median $65,140
Annual 90th percentile $105,870

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Business

  • customer service
  • administrative services

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Health

  • therapy and counseling

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • understanding people's reactions
  • looking for ways to help people

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Social

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

  • Concern for Others
  • Cooperation
  • Social Orientation
  • Dependability
  • Integrity
  • Self Control

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • notice when problems happen
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