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provide social counselling

🏛️ Enduring ESCO reuse: cross-sector

Assist and guide social service users to resolve personal, social or psychological problems and difficulties.

provide social counselling — assist and guide social service users to resolve personal, social or psychological problems and difficulties. McKinsey's Skill Change Index places it in the enduring band (SCI 48.1/100) — a human-connection anchor whose value is projected to hold or grow through 2030. ESCO classifies it as a cross-sector (useful across many industries) skill within skills. It is currently listed by 44 occupations in our catalogue, including Childcare workers, Community health workers, child care social worker, and clinical social worker.

Category: skills › counselling on personal, family or social issues SCI: 48.1/100 Also known as: provide social-counseling, offer social counselling services, offer social counseling services, offer social counselling, assist and guide social service users, offer social counseling

Occupations that require provide social counselling

Showing top 20 of 44 occupations · ranked by India employment volume, then AI-durability.

Childcare workers · 🤖 3.1/10
Community health workers · 🤖 4.4/10
child care social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
clinical social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
community development social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
community social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
consultant social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
criminal justice social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
crisis situation social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
gerontology social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
mental health social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
palliative care social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
social worker · 🤖 4.5/10
child welfare worker · 🤖 4.7/10
adult community care worker · 🤖 5.0/10
benefits advice worker · 🤖 5.0/10
care home worker · 🤖 5.0/10
chaplain · 🤖 5.0/10
community care case worker · 🤖 5.0/10
disability support worker · 🤖 5.0/10

Frequently asked questions

What is provide social counselling?

Assist and guide social service users to resolve personal, social or psychological problems and difficulties.

What category of skill is provide social counselling?

ESCO classifies provide social counselling under the skills category, specifically in the counselling on personal, family or social issues subcategory.

Is provide social counselling an AI-durable skill?

McKinsey's Skill Change Index places it in the enduring band (SCI 48.1/100) — a human-connection anchor whose value is projected to hold or grow through 2030. This is a durable skill to invest in — high human-connection skills consistently resist automation.

Which jobs require provide social counselling?

In our catalogue, 44 occupations list provide social counselling as a required or important skill. The top occupations by employment volume include Childcare workers, Community health workers, child care social worker, clinical social worker, community development social worker, community social worker.

How transferable is provide social counselling between industries?

ESCO tags provide social counselling as a cross-sector (useful across many industries) skill — a signal of how portable it is when you change field.

Is provide social counselling the same as provide social-counseling?

Yes — provide social counselling is also known as provide social-counseling, offer social counselling services, offer social counseling services, offer social counselling, assist and guide social service users, offer social counseling, or provide social-concelling. They refer to the same underlying capability in the ESCO taxonomy.

How can I learn provide social counselling?

The most reliable path is to pick a job or project that demands provide social counselling and learn through delivery. Complement that with role-specific roadmaps and short courses. Explore the occupations below to see where this skill is used in practice.

Data: ESCO v1.2.1 (CC-BY-4.0). Durability framework informed by McKinsey Global Institute (Nov 2025). See our methodology.