career planning journey- whos journey is it??

I had to laugh when I saw the sheet that career advisors in career Scotland were being assessed on, it’s so ridged, it looked like a school assessment sheet! it sort of seems to depersonalise the clients situation…makes them seem as though they are just part of the system! It denies the advisor the integrity and space to make decisions based on individual interviews of the course that the time spent with client should take, in fact it denies really the client thisl luxury…when its supposed to be his or her interview!!!
Also the fact that the advisor tells the client where he or she is on the ‘career planning journey’ seems to go back to the older theoretical frameworks where the advisor takes all the control. I think that it’s quite sad that advisors if they want to give a really good and worthwhile interview have to deviate from the ridged structure imposed by those above. I heard a few people say that they seen things that should have been going on, good things, it seems a shame that there is not much room for manoeuvre, and if an advisor wants to give a more empathetic full session that he or she could potentially be doing so at the risk of getting into trouble. I agree sort of perhaps assessment should be in place, I quite liked the idea of colleagues doing it and giving feedback. I think that in the kind of assessment where the tick sheet that we were given in class is used only the young person would be the loser, and I witnessed such types of interviews where to be honest the young person looked as though they would have rather have been any where else but there, they seemed to go out none the wiser. I know that there are young people who get sent to career advisors and don’t want to be there before they get in the door, but I think that especially in these cases such a rigid structure would b useless, many of these young people face barriers or have problems that get in the way of getting on with life in general, if we could try and perhaps identify or at least flag these up then surely this would help them help themselves better.