Vocational guidance and counseling service normally is intended to guide potential TVET trainees to decide proper career path which they need to pursue. Although this approach has been practiced in Ethiopian TVET system for the last many years, it has been ineffective due to lack of proper structure, limited responsibility of the VGC officers and poor implementation.

The new approach is beginning with establishing proper structure for the vocational guidance and counseling office and defining additional very key activities to be discharged by the respective office.

In order to make the TVET sector more effective, the responsibilities of the vocational guidance and counseling officer need to be:

1. Pre –TVET guidance and counseling which is targeting the future potential

entrants of TVET at secondary education level,

2. Effective guidance and counseling service to the enrolled trainees,

3. Strengthening the industry- TVET linkage,

4. Conducting labor market study,

5. Job placement and

6. Conducting tracer study.

Generally this manual is prepared to enhance the intervention of the vocational guidance and counseling service to be more effective, as well as it is highly believed that the manual will be helpful for both the regulatory and implementers to guide them on how to discharge their duties and responsibilities in relation to aforementioned key activities.