Career Assessments have the opportunity to provide students with invaluable guidance, bolster their relationship with counselors and prompt action. Yet, too often none of these outcomes are spurred by career assessment because people aren’t engaged when they’re taking them. For students to appreciate and act on the guidance of a career assessment, they need to...
At the 37th annual First Year Experience Conference, I gave a presentation on why finding a student’s career path in the first year is vital. Generally first year experience concentrates on getting students transitioned into the new academic setting. Recently, there has been a bigger initiatives to include career exploration in the first year experience....
Back in senior year of high school or freshman year of college, your guidance counselor/career advisor sat you down, handed you a few pieces of paper called “career aptitude tests” and promised you that it would magically show your career path forward. Then, they left you to your own devices. After rolling through a few...
At just about every community college campus we go to, we hear that their big focus is career pathways. It’s not surprising: a career pathway is an integrated academic and career skills plan that leads students to in demand, well paid careers. At their core, community colleges are exactly positioned to develop and deploy career...
Career Assessments, or instruments, used to help educate people about themselves and their career opportunities are one of the most fundamental tools to career guidance. During career exploration, the right career assessment can play a critical role in moving people from a state of unawareness to their next opportunity. A good career assessment helps people...
You might not have heard a lot about emotional intelligence, but you use it every day. How much you have has a huge affect on your success in several areas of your life, including your career. In fact, 90% of the people who perform the best at their jobs have high emotional intelligence, and 58%...
