Navigating Career Paths: A Comprehensive Guide for Student Advisors
This guide equips advisors with essential tools to support students in their career exploration journey. It emphasizes the importance of assessing individual readiness for career planning and identifying service delivery modes tailored to unique needs. Students will learn to evaluate their interests, skills, and values, and how these components influence career decisions. The resource covers key areas such as researching occupations, planning applications, and developing effective resumes. By understanding themselves better, students can make informed career choices that align with their abilities and aspirations.
Navigating Career Paths: A Comprehensive Guide for Student Advisors
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Career Exploration Student Support Services
Role of the Advisor • Access readiness of individuals for career planning and determine appropriate service delivery modes and interventions. • Expand, focus, or transfer interest, abilities and/or experience to identify a realistic list of employment alternatives. • Evaluate the data collected about occupations and training opportunities.
Orientation • Career Development Process • Values • Interest • Skills • Lets Do It!!!!! What’s Next?
Career Development Process • Knowing yourself! • Knowing your options - Careers and majors - Employers and industries • Research options • Planning - Resume/cover letter - Employment search/applications - Interviews
Knowing Yourself • Understanding yourself helps you to make good career decisions. • You know yourself better than others • More beneficial to start here than jumping in and trying various careers
Important • Knowing “YOU” involves: - Values - Interest - Skills
Values Key points when thinking of employment? • Examples - High income - Security - Prestige - Variety - Independence - Leadership - Helping others - Leisure
Interest • What do you like to do? • What’s enjoyable to you?
Holland Codes Realistic – Practical, physical, hands-on, and tool-oriented Investigative – Analytical, intellectual, scientific, explorative Artistic – Creative, original , independent, chaotic Social – Cooperative, supporting, helping, healing Enterprising – Competitive, environments, leadership, persuading Conventional – Detail-oriented, organizing, clerical
Skills • Things you do well • What are your talents? • Knowledge through classes, jobs and hobbies.
Identifying Skills • Skills search • Transferable skills survey
Transferable Skills Skills learned from one setting that can be transferred to new setting - Budget management - Supervising others - Public relations - Negotiating - Organizing - Interviewing - Teaching/instructing
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