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

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vocational guidance

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

All of them are in serious need of some vocational guidance.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Then followed brief discussion of the new movement for vocational guidance that is doing so much where being used to make the youth efficient and happy in his chosen and appropriate field of activity.

From On the Firing Line in Education by Ladd, Adoniram Judson