Career Counseling

Career Counseling is a process that will help you to know and understand yourself and the world of work in order to make career, educational, and life decisions. Career development is more than just deciding on a major and what job you want to get when you graduate.

 

Your career development is a lifelong process that, whether you know it or not, actually started when you were born! There are a number of factors that influence your career development, including your interests, abilities, values, personality, background, and circumstances.

 

Career development is more than just deciding on a major and what job you want to get when you graduate. It really is a lifelong process, meaning that throughout your life you will change, situations will change, and you will continually have to make career and life decisions. The goal of Career Counseling is to not only help you make the decisions you need to make now but to give you the knowledge and skills you need to make future career and life decisions.

 

Your Career Counselor WILL:

• Help you figure out who you are and what you want out of your education, your career, and your life.
• Be someone for you to talk to about your thoughts, ideas, feelings, and concerns about your career and educational choices, who will help you sort out, organize, and make sense of your thoughts and feelings.
• Help you identify the factors influencing your career development, and help you assess your interests, abilities, and values.
• Help you locate resources and sources of career information.
• Help you to determine the next steps and develop a plan to achieve your goals.

 

Your Career Counselor WON’T:

• Tell you what to do, or tell you what you should major in or what career you should pursue.
• Advise you in course selection or scheduling.

 

Who needs Career Counseling?

Below are some examples of concerns that bring students to Career Counseling:

• “I have no idea what I want to do with my life.”
• “I don’t know what to major in.”
• “I’ve narrowed it down to a couple of career options, but I’m having a hard time choosing between them.”
• “I know what I want to major in, but I have no idea what I want to do once I graduate.”
• “I know what I want to do, but I’m not sure what the best major would be.
• “I want to know what kinds of jobs I can get with my major.”
• “I don’t feel like I know enough about all the different careers out there to know what I want to do.”