Career Counselling: More than Meets the Eye. Kris% Kerford Fleming/Trent Cathy Keates Queen s Felicity Morgan University of Toronto Mississauga

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1 Career Counselling: More than Meets the Eye Kris% Kerford Fleming/Trent Cathy Keates Queen s Felicity Morgan University of Toronto Mississauga

2 Why this topic?

3 And more why this topic? Pressures to do less career counselling Unrealized poten%al of career counselling skill and knowledge A career development approach fits within a holis%c development approach Stats career anxiety

4 Today Learning outcomes Defini%ons Skills Impact Matrix Risks What Next?

5 Learning Outcomes 1. Discuss the impact of career counselling in career development 2. Iden%fy 3 non- tradi%onal methods of u%lizing career counselling skills 3. Analyze one method for poten%al success in atendee s seung

6 A Working DefiniDon Guiding people through a process of change in a career context

7 Skills Asking good ques%ons Developmental rather than prescrip%ve Build capacity in client Keeping the locus of decision making in the student Emphasizing informed decision making not making the right decision Incorpora%ng chaos, unplanned Facilita%on

8 Impact Figuring out what is important to me (UTM Study) significant change on self clarity & decidedness Goal seung and engaging in career development has been shown to contribute to academic persistence and well- being (Botelho, 2012; Dik, Sargent, & Steger, 2008; Praskova, Creed, & Hood, 2013)

9 Change in PerspecDve Service Delivery Perspec%ve Student Development Support Perspec%ve

10 Service Delivery Perspec%ve Impact career outcomes for students using services through quality improvement of own services Look for new places to deliver service, partnerships Reach increasing numbers of students each year Student Development Support Perspec%ve Impact student career outcomes across all students Inform student career development process Establish structures and processes that support all students

11 Partnerships Ins%tu%on Wide Within Centre

12 Matrix At Career Centre Career services Career programs Service partnerships Resources and tools

13 Strategy Coaching/training of other staff & paraprofessionals Messaging Community Building Program and Curriculum Development Outcomes/Metrics Support Across InsBtuBon

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15 Your Turn What are you now doing? What would you like to do? Using the matrix handout Small group discussion Large group debrief

16 Risks Decisions made without this input Missed opportuni%es Prescrip%ve, not developmental Overly simplis%c messaging Programming doesn t fit student reality Fewer and fewer career counsellor posi%ons

17 What Next? Ager this conversa%on I am now beter able to: explain the unique contribu%on make a case to colleagues, supervisors, clients influence Ager this conversa%on I am now going to: discuss with my team further refine defini%on change the world

18 Some Related Resources Botelho, T. (2012). Career Educa*on in the Age of Engagement: An Analysis of Ini*a*ves at Simon Fraser University. Educa%on: Faculty of Educa%on. Retrieved from htp://summit.sfu.ca/item/12517 Chan, Andy. Career Services Must Die - htps:// Contomanolis, E. & Steinfeld, T. (eds) (2013). Leadership in Career Services: Voices from the field. Dik, B. J., Sargent, A. M., & Steger, M. F. (2008). Career Development Strivings: Assessing Goals and Mo%va%on in Career Decision- Making and Planning. Journal of Career Development, 35(1), Fouad, N., CoTer, E., & Kantamneni, N. (2009). The effec%veness of a career decision- making course. Journal of Career Assessment, 17(3), Masdona%, J., Massoudi, K., & Rossier, J. (2009). Effec%veness of career counseling and the impact of the working alliance. Journal of Career Development, 36(2), Praskova, A., Creed, P. A., & Hood, M. (2013). Facilita%ng engagement in new career goals: the modera%ng effects of personal resources and career ac%ons. Interna*onal Journal for Educa*onal and Voca*onal Guidance, 13(2),

19 Thanks! Kris% Kerford, Cathy Keates, Felicity Morgan,