The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused unprecedented economic disruption and unemployment worldwide, threatening to become both a financial and a humanitarian crisis. Prolonged labor market recession and an acute rise of unemployment are expected. The main question for career counselors will be how to provide effective career counseling to unemployed people in the post-COVID-19 world, where they may face many other unemployment-related problems. In this article, we suggest application of a holistic intervention model of career counseling for unemployed people that was designed to address the consequences of the acute financial recession in Greece.
Keywords: COVID‐19; PEPSAEE model; psychosocial support; social justice; unemployment.
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