Career Exploration
Early in the Career Exploration course is a time for students to self-reflect on their past experiences, formal and life learning, and explore their motivations for choosing the career path that they did. This is a difficult exercise in that in day-to-day living we navigate our life choices and the directions we take similarly to driving in ‘auto-drive’. Therefore, this activity is almost an exercise in deconstructing the auto-drive/pilot, which is already on.
This activity requires skills that fall under components of self-actualization, research, data analysis, and evaluation/re-evaluation. Students reflect on their current situation, i.e., “What is the career field that you have chosen for your path”; analyze their past, i.e., “How much knowledge do you have on this career and how have you acquired this knowledge?”; and look to the future planning, i.e., “What do you anticipate this career will be like on a day-to-day basis and over the long term?”
Secondary research is conducted on their chosen career and primary research is conducted through arranging meetings with employers and employees in the field. Students compile their research findings, analyze the data (did their interviews result in practical skills, office politics, room for growth?), and then re-evaluate if the student still thinks that this career is a fit for them, they need more time to consider their choice, or they want to change their direction.
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