Compare Mental Health Counselors & Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors District Of Columbia

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Salary

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Mental Health Counselors $58,500
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and... $62,300

Similar skills & knowledge

These skills are commonly used in both your current job and your selected occupation.

Customer and Personal Service
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Active Listening
Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

Systems Evaluation
Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

Critical Thinking
Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

Social Perceptiveness
Understanding people's reactions.

Reading Comprehension
Reading work-related information.

Therapy and Counseling
Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

Learning Strategies
Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

Speaking
Talking to others.

Monitoring
Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

Negotiation
Bringing people together to solve differences.

Writing
Writing things for co-workers or customers.

Persuasion
Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

Active Learning
Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

Education and Training
Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

Service Orientation
Looking for ways to help people.

Judgment and Decision Making
Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

Complex Problem Solving
Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

Instructing
Teaching people how to do something.

Sociology and Anthropology
Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.


Typical Level Of Training

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Typical level Of training for Mental Health Counselors
Mental Health Counselors

Bachelor's degree

Typical level Of training for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors

Licensing

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Licensing for Mental Health Counselors
Mental Health Counselors

License may be required in District of Columbia

Licensing for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors

No license found in District of Columbia


Certification

Certifications help you get ahead or qualify for different jobs. You usually have to pass a test to earn one, and then you can show employers that you have the skills and knowledge needed to do well on the job.

Certification for Mental Health Counselors
Mental Health Counselors

25 related certifications

Certification for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors

37 related certifications

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