A RESEARCH ON THE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELING AND CAREER GUIDANCE IN ROMANIA

Abstract

Young people need counseling and guidance to be able to discover abilities, inclinations and to outline their future. Career guidance and counseling should be made permanent from primary and secondary education.With a permanent reformed educational system that does not value counseling and vocational guidance of scholars, Romanian educational system has a major minus. But the insufficiency of counselors in the preuniversity education, determines the high rate of disorientation of the potential students in choosing the faculty that they want to graduate from, or worse, determines school dropout. The article aims to present the main results of a sociological research conducted in two regions of Romania on a number of 900 students, in order to underline the need and usefulness of counseling and vocational guidance.