FAQs for Students
Can career planning help college students select a major?
Yes. With some universities offering over 150 undergraduate majors, choosing just one can be overwhelming. Objective career assessments conducted by career experts can increase a student’s confidence in their choice, or narrow their focus for directed exploration. Career planning can also provide a powerful sense of direction, increasing the student’s motivation to succeed.
Continue reading →Isn’t career and educational planning from high school guidance counselors enough?
High school guidance departments are simply not staffed to provide comprehensive and individualized career planning services. With a typical student caseload of over 500 and a myriad of responsibilities, guidance counselors do their best to provide students with glimpses of different educational and career choices. However, it is often too general and infrequent to be of value. Professional career planning uses the best tools to provide detailed, individualized information and directly applies that information to selecting college majors, careers, and work environments that will be most successful and satisfying for the student.
Continue reading →What happens in the career planning process?
Career planning is centered around education and possessing the self-knowledge to make a lifetime of successful career choices. A comprehensive assessment of aptitudes, interests, personality, and values paints a realistic picture of an individual’s strengths and helps define attainable goals. A career consultant integrates the test results and discusses customized career and educational options with the client during a personalized, one-on-one feedback session. Following the assessment, the client investigates their options, makes a decision, and develops a career plan to implement it, with the assistance of the consultant if needed. Periodically, the client may return to meet with their consultant to get assistance with another decision or to update their plan annually.
Continue reading →Why is career planning important?
Rapidly changing workplaces and increasing numbers of career choices have made career literacy – – knowledge of one’s abilities and interests, and of the workplace — essential in successfully adapting to today’s job market. The earlier individuals understand their unique talents, the sooner they can apply that knowledge to make satisfying career choices. Given that roughly 70% of Americans are dissatisfied with their jobs (Gallup, 2017), the need for career planning is significant.
Continue reading →What is Career Vision?
Career Vision℠ is a non-profit career planning organization that helps individuals reach their full potential by gaining the self-knowledge necessary to make satisfying career and educational choices. As part of our mission, Career Vision also offers free “Career Literacy” presentations for groups of parents who want to guide their high school and college age children regarding college major and career decisions. They are the only organization of this kind in the nation.
Continue reading →How do I know this will work?
This is a reasonable, but hard question. Measuring the impact of learning is not easy. Our packages offer direction and insights that last for a lifetime. The results are both immediate and long-term as decisions are made and plans implemented. But we have many happy alumni that are a testament to the value of our programs.
Continue reading →How do your tests differ from the ACT/SAT?
The ACT/SAT measures are more knowledge-based and measure only academic aptitudes. These are intended to predict success within a college curriculum. Career Vision’s Ball Aptitude Battery® not only includes the general academic aptitudes, but more importantly includes aptitudes that give a more complete understanding of a person’s work-related talents or abilities: different types of creativity, spatial abilities, memory abilities, finger dexterity, reasoning styles and attention to details. Put simply, it’s the difference between a black and white picture, and one in full color.
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