The internship for Career Consultants

After obtaining the national certification as a career consultant and finally preparing to start your practice, many people face the challenge known as "the wall of inexperience."

Even when browsing various job postings for career consultants, most of them favor those with experience, and there are few opportunities where newly certified consultants can thrive.
If your company happens to have a career consultation office, you might still find opportunities to be active. But in many cases, people work in companies where the very concept of a "career consultant" is barely recognized.

After earning the certification, many people feel that the first step is to gather information from various industry associations. This often leads them to join professional organizations such as ACCN or JDCA.
Once you join such groups, you may fortunately be introduced to internship programs designed to help break through the wall of inexperience. These programs allow you to participate in actual career consulting sessions at companies alongside senior consultants who are already active in the field.

When participating in these programs, you'll find that many others, also eager to break through this same wall, have joined. Getting selected for such an internship can be highly competitive.
However, there's an element of luck involved, and all you can do is keep trying without getting discouraged—believing that your turn will eventually come.

At these internship briefings, you may meet HR personnel from companies that have already implemented career consulting systems. They often share insights into their company’s human resource development plans and training systems.
When you think about it, this is quite extraordinary. Under normal circumstances, you would never have access to such internal company information.
Why is this kind of access possible? It’s because you are a certified career consultant.

As national license holders, career consultants are bound by strict ethical codes. Violations can lead to disqualification.
This level of rigor enhances the credibility of career consultants. That is why HR representatives are willing to share in-depth information about their companies with us.

Many may feel anxious about not having accumulated practical experience yet. But even without a strong record of activity, being in this privileged position allows you to deepen your knowledge—and that, in itself, is a significant benefit.
Personally, I’ve found that since becoming a certified consultant, the range of information I have access to has expanded dramatically. I’ve also gained new perspectives that allow me to critically examine my own company’s systems.

A qualification is a form of trust—especially a national qualification.
Having worked hard to earn my career consultant license, I want to make full use of it as a tool for accessing valuable information.