Counselling & Career Guidance

The Guidance and Counselling Department of Blackrock College has a new Careers Page where students can access up to date Higher and Further Education and Careers Information.  Check it out at https://twitter.com/CareersBC.

 
Counselling

The personal well-being of each boy is central to the Blackrock mission.  Individual counselling plays an important role in the mental, psychological, spiritual, social and intellectual development of the boy.  Each Year group has a Counsellor who supports the Dean in the care for the boys.

Counsellors are always happy to see a student who is referred by an individual teacher, if and when the teacher is concerned about such a student.  Parents may also request, through the Dean, an appointment for their son.

 
Career Guidance

One of the most important decisions that a boy will make is that of career choice.  The purpose of guidance counselling in Blackrock is to empower each student to get to know himself, i.e. abilities, skills, talents, interests, values, so that when he reaches Final Year he will be able to choose a Third Level course and plan a career that suits his needs and abilities.  There is a Career Guidance Counsellor in Transition Year, 5^th and 6^th Year.
 
Download the following document:

6th Year Parents’ CAO Talk 2016

 
 
3rd Year Subject Choice

Download the following document:

3rd Year Subject Choice 2015 Website