What Career is Best for Me?
What Career is Best for Me? With summer past the halfway point, about 18 million students are thinking about heading off to, or back to college. For first-year students (and students still undecided), an important question is – what career is best for me? The answer drives the choice of major, future job opportunities, and […]
Choosing a Career Path: Six Things You Should Try
Choosing a career path becomes a priority at different stages of your life. Starting college? Or returning to college after a summer (or longer) break? College is typically the last stop before the “real world,” where you join the workforce and enjoy a lifelong, rewarding career. How do we get there? Most of us aren’t […]
Self Assessments for Students
Hear me out, the best way to prepare yourself to head back to school this fall is to take tests. Don’t worry, you don’t have to study for these types of tests – because they are all about you! Self-assessments are a great tool for students to uncover valuable insights about themselves. They also help […]
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 […]
A Brief History of Career Counseling
Receiving career counseling has become the norm in this day and age but it hasn’t always been so easily accessible. Before the late 19th century there was very little available and very little known about career counseling. Most people during this time found work through family, friends, or the community. However, a rise in immigration […]
Computer-Assisted Career Guidance Systems: Can You Discover Your Purpose Using a Computer?
How much do you know about computer-assisted career guidance systems? Talking now to college students, I would tell them “If I can do it, so can you!” Registering for my first term in college (in 1975!), I thought that college course numbers were arbitrary, so I didn’t think twice about registering for a 5000-level psychology […]
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 […]
What Career Should I Have? Career Guidance Tools, First Step Toward Meaningful Work
Have you ever thought about what career you should have and how to get there? Is it a career that will be meaningful to you? To find meaningful work, start with personal career guidance to steer yourself in the right direction. However, this can be difficult. School counselors are often pressed for time. Approaching someone […]
