Career Exploration
Career Exploration
Career Counseling: A Preemptive Strike
(or…You’re Not Living in My Basement After College!)
What do you want for your student? Success? Happiness?
How can they figure out what that means for them?
Through a series of meetings, we will guide your student through this process of self-discovery so they can make smart decisions about how to spend their time and your money.
- Uncovering interests, talents, abilities and his/her definition of success
- Exploring the most promising career options
- Identifying activities to help him/her experience these possibilities in a real way
- Setting goals: Narrowing the field to a top choice major/program with at least one backup plan
Potential benefits:
- Motivation in current circumstances
- Direction for college/program search
- Developing a proactive and exploratory mindset
- Reduce the odds of need for transfer
Consider this
- 80% of students change their major at least once
- Changing a major may require more time in college
- Changing a major may require transfer
- (37% of students transfer at least once)
- Potential to lose between 13 and 27 credits
Like college counseling, this is a highly individualized process, but may include the following:
- Interest inventories
- Personality profiles
- Assessments of abilities and values
- Imagination/dreaming exercises
- Evaluating majors and requirements
- Mock job hunting
- Resume buildng
- Job shadows
- Internships
- Goal setting
Career Exploration is available stand alone or in conjunction with a Comprehensive College Counseling Package.