ABSTRACT
The fundamental purpose of vocational guidance and counselling is obvious and quite straightforward. It is to help people make appropriate vocational choices and adjustments; and to facilitate the efficient and cost-effective functioning of organizations by the appropriate exploitation of individual assets and abilities. To a large extent, the work on vocational guidance is identical to that of employee selection, except the former takes the perspective of, and is primarily concerned with the best interests of the employee, while the latter is mainly the concern of the employer. Because there are individual differences in ability, aptitude, needs, personality and interests, and job difference in the demands they make in personal attributes and skills, people will do better in jobs for which their abilities are suited than those not congruent with them.
