*One of my favorite sessions I attended at the conference was on career counseling. I found it to be very enlightening. One reason for this is that my MBTI type is ISFJ. Attending this session helped me to get a taste of the Intuitive and Perceiving personality types. I felt energized after attending this session because I feel that the presenter gave important tips for advisors to consider when engaging in major exploration with a student.
*Main points of this session:
- Indecision is a sensible approach to an uncertain future.
- Help students become adaptive agents. Be open minded and not worried.
- Career Adaptability: Everyone has a different exploration journey. Help students learn to be flexible and adapt to changes.
- Adaptive students will do the best in the future. Today’s work world and individual plans change constantly. Help students develop transferrable skills.
- Positive Uncertainty: Accept uncertainty in your life and be positive about it. Be flexible and teachable. We aren’t “married” to our careers.
- Use both left and right brain in decision making. Don’t be afraid to take risks.
- Some things happen by chance. Do we take advantage of these situations for our success? Look for opportunities.
- Don’t discourage students from dreaming and exploring.
- During the exploratory process, people often discover something new about self or environment and then change direction/goals.
- It is hard to know what will make our future selves happy. We have biases in our decision making. We must also consider job satisfaction.
