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What You'll Do: If you plan on becoming a school counselor, prepare to work with a whole spectrum of individuals who come from all types of ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds. Your job would entail fixing behavioral and social problems that prevent the students from showing satisfactory academic progress. This involves holding group and individual counseling sessions that help the students build study skills, aiding them with planning their career goals and how to get there one step at a time, examining their current academic progress and potential, working with parents and the school administration to help students do better, offering optional classes on how to succeed in school, looking out for signs of abuse and neglect, and giving students additional outside resources for further help with any issue that they might be having.

Those who are best suited for the job are likely very understanding individuals who have true compassion for other people. Only such counselors can give sincere advice to their students. Having excellent written and oral communication skills is a must as well. Counselors who listen well often are the ones who offer the most effective solutions to a problem

Education and Training: The minimum requirement for becoming a school counselor is having a master's degree. Ideally, a degree in school counseling is obtained before applying to the job, but master's degrees in similar fields including psychology and sociology may be considered as well. Master's of school counseling degree programs usually ask you to pick a concentration, such as career counseling, to specialize in.

Before completion of the degree program, extensive practical experience is required. This usually means spending several hundred hours participating in an internship or volunteer program.

In addition to an advanced degree, most states require that you obtain a state certification in order to practice. Certification generally requires a few thousand hours of supervised work experience, the passing of one or more licensing exams, and ongoing additional coursework.

The Future: The School Counseling profession is expected to grow at about 19% (or 53,000 new jobs)through 2020, propelled by increasing student enrollment in elementary, middle and high schools across the country.

The Pay: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a median annual wage of $53,300 for 2010, with the top 10% pulling in $86,200.

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