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.

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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

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Etymology

Origin of vocational guidance

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Some of the techniques for this odd vocational guidance experiment were borrowed from the British War Office Selection Board; others were developed on the spot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Playwright Lennox Raphael, in Merrick's view, "had no talent whatsoever and should seek vocational guidance."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And in the course of a long guerrilla war against Howard Taubman of the Times, he pointedly reprinted one of Taubman's reviews in Greek and suggested sympathetically that the poor chap required "vocational guidance."

From Time Magazine Archive

Fortunate are we to have from the pen of Mrs. Dickson a book on the vocational guidance of girls.

From Vocational Guidance for Girls by Dickson, Marguerite Stockman