Discuss the role that career and educational planning, placement, follow-up and evaluation have played in your own life. Discuss how intentional and unintentional events in your life have influenced where you are today. Was there a school or college counselor, relative, friend, employer, etc. who helped guide you? If not, this is ok, but share how this impacted you.
Assessments and Activities
Discuss assessment instruments and techniques relevant to career planning and decision making (Discuss in depth the instruments that you took and interpreted in class which include: the RIASEC, Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI), and CDMSE. In addition, you are to discuss any classroom activities (genogram, card sort, My Career Story, etc.) we completed in class. How do you see these instruments to be useful in personal or professional use? In other words, how do these assessments work for you? Do the results fit with what you expected? Be sure to use and cite references for your work in this section.
Theories
Discuss in depth how you see your life and your assessment results through the lenses of one of the career theories that we have discussed in depth this semester. Identify specific models or concepts that you identify in your personal career path and how you see them manifesting themselves (i.e., self-concept, Super’s developmental stages, self-efficacy, Holland’s hexagon, etc.) Be sure to use and cite references for your work in this section.
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I was never the astute and disciplined student I am currently. All the transformation can get attributed to the help I got from my school counselor. My parents were quite busy growing up to the extent that they barely had time to assess how I performed in school. Their absence was not intentional since they had to work a couple of jobs to fund our education and meet other basic needs. I took advantage of the lack of supervision and fell in with the wrong group of students, who saw fit to bully and terrorize other students. Even though I never bullied or harassed students, hanging around them made me very happy.
My parents never realized this was happening, and without anybody castigating or reprimanding me for my behavior, I fell deeper into this rabbit hole. My studies began to take a hit, considering learning was not that important to me once I joined my friends. However, the school’s counselor was the first person to notice the changes, but rather than confront me. She waited for me to get into trouble and then see how she could help me.
