What Are Your Interests? Start With Interests or Your Skills Won’t Matter
“What are your interests?” After an abysmal performance during a brief, straight-set defeat at Wimbledon last year, the talented Australian pro Bernard Tomic rattled the tennis world by declaring that he felt bored during the match and just couldn’t find the motivation to compete. “The last sort of year or two, nothing motivates,” he said […]
A Major Regret: I don’t know what to major in
“I don’t know what to major in” How did you choose your major in college? Did you… Ask a friend for advice? Follow your sister’s footsteps? Go with a gut feeling? Maybe you shook your Magic 8 Ball until signs pointed to yes… Maybe you’re still deciding on your ideal educational path. Or maybe you […]
Student Success in College: An Expanding Perspective
In the 2017-2018 school year, the average cost of attending a four-year public university for out-of-state students was $40,940[1]. With skepticism about the value of a college degree, increasing costs of attendance, and rapidly growing student debt, higher education institutions are experiencing increasing pressure to position the value of their programs and likelihood of student […]
What Career Path Finder Actually Works?
What kind of tools are available that might serve as an effective career path finder? If you’ve worked with students who are struggling with figuring out their career path, you’ve felt their pain. Or maybe you are an individiual struggling to decide what career path to take. Either way, it is very hard to have […]
Helping Students Succeed: Give Them What They are Looking For
How do you know if you are really helping students succeed? Do you know what your students are looking for? From my experience at a large university, going to the advising or career center is something that happens only once a semester just to see what classes I need to take. How can you help […]
Client Spotlight: High Point University
We are pleased to introduce you to High Point University for June’s Client Spotlight Story. The PathwayU Client Spotlight Series gives us a glimpse into innovative ways our clients use the PathwayU platform across their campuses. It also allows us to reflect on the numerous ways PathwayU impacts the lives of students, faculty, alumni and more. We have a deep appreciation for […]
Military Crosswalk Feature Developed for Military Personnel
Military crosswalk feature has been developed in jobZology’s PathwayU platform to help clients better serve military personnel and veterans. The new feature enables users to filter career matches by their Military Occupation Classification (MOC) or Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) code. Military crosswalk will assist military transition into civilian life with career exploration and opportunities The Military […]
Abilities: What Are They?
What makes us different, is it our abilities? A key strategy for discerning a calling is to start by understanding your gifts, where “gifts” is defined very broadly to include all of those aspects of what make you unique. Psychologists have worked hard to identify the key aspects of people that are important in understanding […]
Career Guidance Assessment Tool: An Aid to Career Counseling Services, Not a Replacement
These days there is widespread concern about advancements in intelligence technology taking over jobs. Unfortunately, our world of work is not immune to that fear. Academic and career counselors have expressed concerns that predictive analytics programs are becoming replacements for their specialized services. Although PathwayU falls under this umbrella of predictive analytics, our career guidance […]
Client Spotlight: Seattle Pacific University
The PathwayU Client Spotlight Series gives us a glimpse into innovative ways our clients use the PathwayU platform across their campuses. It also allows us to reflect on the numerous ways PathwayU impacts the lives of students, faculty, alumni and more. We have a deep appreciation for our clients and the work they do to support learners through their journeys […]
