The purpose of this research is to investigate the job and vocational counselor candidates' general self-efficacy beliefs and life satisfaction in terms of gender, educational level, the faculty they graduated, the geographical region they live in and social support variables. This research is survey study. Research group consists of 357 volunteers (148 women and 209 men) attended to "Job and Vocational Counselor Education" conducted by Mersin University Information Processing Research and Application Center. "One-way MANOVA" and "t test" has been used in the analysis of the data. The data of the research have been collected with "General Self-Efficacy Beliefs Scale", "Life Satisfaction Scale" and "Personal Information Form". To investigate the source of the difference Scheffe Test has been used as Post Hoc test. For determining the superiority effect of independent variables Cohen's "d" index, eta square (η2) has been used. In the research SPSS 17 version has been used for analyzing the data. The upper bound for an error margin in the analyses has been accepted as 0.05. As a result of the research, job and vocational counselor candidates who graduates from the Faculty of Science and Literature and has master’s degree showed higher general self-efficacy beliefs. It has been seen in the terms of Life Satisfaction, female candidates having master’s degree, living in the Mediterranean region and Central Anatolia, receiving social support from their environment has even higher scores. Besides it has been found that effect size of all socio-demographic variables that affect general self-efficacy beliefs and life satisfaction of the job and vocational counselor candidates' are at the small size. The results were discussed in the light of the related literature.

Key words: Job and Vocational Counselor, General Self-Efficacy Belief, Life Satisfaction.