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Career Counselling Session

Session note for career counselling interviews covering aspirations, pathways, and action planning.

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Built for

  • Careers Counsellor
  • School Counsellor
  • Year Level Coordinator

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6 sections

Template structure

The career counselling session template captures these sections automatically from your recording when your school has added AI. With AI off, staff fill in the sections themselves.

  1. 1 Student Details
  2. 2 Session Purpose
  3. 3 Interests & Strengths
  4. 4 Pathways Discussion
  5. 5 Action Plan
  6. 6 Follow-Up

The Career Counselling Session template

CAREER COUNSELLING SESSION

STUDENT DETAILS:

Name:

Year/Grade:

Date:

Counsellor:

Session Type: ( ) Initial ( ) Follow-up ( ) Subject selection ( ) Post-school planning

SESSION PURPOSE:

[Reason for session — student-initiated, scheduled review, referral]

INTERESTS AND STRENGTHS:

Career Interests:

[Fields, industries, or occupations of interest]

Strengths and Skills:

[Academic strengths, personal qualities, practical skills]

Work Experience / Part-time Work:

Extracurricular Activities:

ASSESSMENT RESULTS (if applicable):

Tool Used:

Key Findings:

PATHWAYS DISCUSSION:

Options Explored:

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3.

Education Pathways:

Prerequisite Subjects:

[Required or recommended subjects for chosen pathways]

BARRIERS/CONCERNS:

[Academic barriers, family expectations, financial concerns, confidence]

ACTION PLAN:

Action | Timeline

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The opening of the template: its headings and fields.

How it works

  1. 1

    Record or dictate the meeting

    In the room or over a video call. Audio is deleted once transcribed. If a recording can't upload or be transcribed, it stays on your device so you can try again.

  2. 2

    Pick the Career Counselling Session template

    When you record, dictate or upload, press the Note template button, search by name or section, and open Sections to preview it. Make it your default at this school so it is ready next time. You can switch templates until you submit the recording.

  3. 3

    Review and finalise

    Your note is generated in the structure above. Edit anything you want — in your school’s words — then save to the student’s record.

Quick guide

Which template should I use?

Start from what just happened. You can switch templates until you submit the recording.

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