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vocational guidance

American  
[voh-key-shuh-nl gahyd-ns] / voʊˈkeɪ ʃə nl ˈgaɪd ns /

noun

  1. the process of assisting a student to choose, prepare for, and enter an occupation for which they show aptitude.


vocational guidance British  

noun

  1. a guidance service based on psychological tests and interviews to find out what career or occupation may best suit a person

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of vocational guidance

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

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Back in her native Toulouse after many years as an education inspector and vocational guidance adviser in former French North Africa, she found the days dragging oppressively.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like any progressive educator of today, Don Bosco believed in vocational guidance, play-teaching, musical training.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the centers would be mobile, in the form of bookmobiles, "labmobiles," traveling units for language instruction and vocational guidance.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are already new efforts along this line, and some school systems, trying to do their utmost, are proudly announcing vocational guidance even in their kindergartens.

From Time Magazine Archive

The answer to this second question will be of decided significance for vocational guidance.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.

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