CONFIDENTIALITY!!

Okay today we touched upon confidentiality and whether it is a good or bad thing and is it really nessessary?

I personally feel there is too much of an emphasis on this issue when meeting with clients. When observing Careers Scotland the advisors always stated at the very start of an interview or meeting ' that everything is confidentual and nothing goes outside this room'

The clients didnt seem in the least bit interested to be perfectly honest and didnt question it once. I feel you could quite happliy conduct an interview without mentioning these terms and conditions. For instance when you go to the doctors or hospital they dont say to you when you sit down' oh everything we dicuss is confidentual' we take it for granted and assume everything said will be between you and the advisor. So why the need in a careers environment???