Opening Focus Only
The tool focuses on why the client is seeking help now and what they want counseling to clarify.
Opening Career Concern
Opening Career Concern is a CCI-aligned counseling-purpose capture tool for career counselors beginning work with a client. It helps record the presenting career issue or transition, the client's desired help, a shared concern statement, practitioner notes, and revision history.
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Tool guide
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Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
Revisitable Purpose
The current concern and prior revisions can be reviewed later to check whether counseling remains focused on the relevant career construction need.
Important Boundary
The tool is not a full intake, career history, assessment battery, career theme formulation, or advice engine.
Is this a full career intake?
No. It captures the opening career concern and desired help, not a complete work history or assessment battery.
Can a vague concern be saved?
Yes. A vague concern can be saved as a draft but should not be marked clear until refined.
What happens if the client has multiple concerns?
The practitioner can distinguish the current focus from additional concerns.
Are there configurable settings?
No. The tool has no substantive settings, but the fixed tool itself is still saved to the practitioner's account.