Counselor Personal Competency Profile: Students, Lecturers, and School Counselors’ Perspectives

The present study attempted to depict counselors’ personal competency based on 24 virtue characters from guidance and counseling students, school counselors, and guidance and counseling lecturers’ perspectives. To this end, guidance and counseling department students, school counselors, and guidance and counselors from different Indonesian provinces were involved, recruited using the purposive sampling technique. Applying quantitative survey method, this study found that: The character virtue considered to be highly necessary for guidance and counseling students were a) spirituality; b) gratitude; c) open-mindedness; d) creativity; e) perspective; f) kindness; g) forgiveness; h) social intelligence. Meanwhile, those considered to be necessary for them were a) zest, b) modesty; c) prudence; d) persistence; e) fairness; f) integrity, g) love of learning, and h). Curiosity. 3) The character virtues viewed to be less necessary for guidance and counseling were : a) courage; b) leadership; c) love; d) self-regulation; e) hope; f) teamwork; g) appreciation of beauty; h) humor. The study concludes that there is a difference in students, school counselors, and lecturers’ perspectives on character virtue required to improve counselors’ personal competency.