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Issues for Career Counselors in the counseling and hiring processes

Issues for Career Counselors in the counseling and hiring processes. Counseling issues: Yourself. Even with the best of intentions, you most likely have internalized some forms of bias and gender stereotypes .

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Issues for Career Counselors in the counseling and hiring processes

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  1. Issues for Career Counselors in the counseling and hiring processes

  2. Counseling issues: Yourself • Even with the best of intentions, you most likely have internalized some forms of bias and gender stereotypes. • For example do not think it helpful to counsel a gay man to be more masculine so that maybe he can avoid discrimination (Pope et al., 2004). • Helping clients to fit gender stereotypes is not backed by research • While such an approach is intuitive, not research based • Sexual orientation is not a choice and • (Pope et al, 2004)

  3. Career Counseling and Coming Out • Coming out is integral to career counseling and that the issue should be raised with LGBTQ clients. • Counselors should be aware of the different kinds of coming out. • Coming out to oneself (self-acceptance) (a developmental must) • Coming out to supporters • Coming out in social/family life • & FINALLY is to come out in the workplace (Pope et al 2004)

  4. Issues in the hiring process to counsel your LGBTQ students about • Coming out in general • Inclusion of LGBTQ information on resume • Offer special programming to meet the career development needs of LGBTQA clients • Train clients in asking and responding to informational interview and job interview questions like "Are you married?" and "How many children do you have?“ (Pope et al, 2004)

  5. A review ofresearch on discrimination Badget, M. V., Lau, H., Sears, B., & Ho, D. (2007).

  6. STEM careers • Cech, E., & Waidzunas, T. (2009) found in a study of 17 LGBTQ engineering students • Social isolation • Academic isolation • Compartmentalized lives • Engineers who are gay rather than gay engineers • LGBTQ supportive organization for STEM careers=Ostem

  7. Questions which should not be asked in an hiring process • Marital Status • Sex or Gender, although may be obvious • Plans for children • Organizations one belongs to • Question about spouses career • What relative to notify in case of emergency • HIV status, disabilities, illnesses in general • (HR World Editors, 2009)

  8. References • Badget, M. V., Lau, H., Sears, B., & Ho, D. (2007). Bias in the workplace: Consistent evidence of sexual orientation and gender identity. Retrieved March 29, 2011, from The Williams Institute, UC Los Angeles website: http://escholarship.ucop.edu/uc/item/5h3731xr • Cech, E., & Waidzunas, T. (2009). AC 2009-1862: “Engineers who happen to be gay”: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual students experiences in engineering. In American Society for Engineering Education 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition. Session: Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my! Retrieved from http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=11816 • HR World Editors (2009). Focus: 30 Interview Questions You Can't Ask and 30 Sneaky, Legal Alternatives to Get the Same Info. Retrieved April 15, 2012, from http://www.focus.com/fyi/30-interview-questions-you-cant-ask-and-30-sneaky-legal-get/?sort=oldest#comments • Pope, M., Barret, B., Szymanski, D. M., Chung, Y. D., Singaravelu, H., McLean, R., & Sanbria, S. (2004). Culturally appropriate career counseling with gay and lesbian clients. Career Development Quarterly, 52(2), Retrieved from FPQ (ISSN: 0889-4019). Retrieved from http://www.freepatentsonline.com/article/Career-Development-Quarterly/127052322.html

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