Education and Design worth spreading Technology, Edward Free, MA Career Counselor UC Berkeley, Career Center Academic Advising & Career Counseling: On the Same Page Idea s

Program Abstract This program will focus on how academic advisors can promote student success by integrating career advising into their practice. We will provide practical tips on discussing transferable skills from student’s classes and their applicability in a job/internship search, as well as promoting networking strategies. The goal is to assist academic advisors who are interested in learning how to help students plan for life after Berkeley.

Agree or Disagree? Career advising or helping students make career decisions is a significant student expectation of my role as an academic advisor. Student expectation/questions Institutional expectation/questions Personal/professional expectation/questions

The Higher Education Research Institute The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2012 (N = 192,912 first-time, full-time students entering 283 four year institution) Reasons in Deciding to go to college (% percent indicating very important) “Get a better job” all-time high of 87.9%, up from 85.9% in 2011, up nearly 30% from 2006 “Make more money” Up from 71.7% in 2011 to 74.5% in 2012 “Gain a general education and appreciation of ideas” Up by nearly 8% from 2006 to 72.8% in 2012

Rethinking Success: From Liberal Arts to Careers in the 21st Century. Wake Forest focused on the value of liberal arts education in the 21st century. Michigan State's Collegiate Employment Research Institute. A survey of more than 800 employers found that the people hiring (or turning down) liberal arts students for jobs believe those recent graduates are equipped with the work place competencies they need, but were not able to articulate and demonstrate their abilities in job interviews. “What we’re pressed to do,” says Kelley Bishop, an assistant vice president of strategic initiatives at Michigan State University, “is embed the career development process into the academic experience. That is the crux of our challenge for our profession for the next decade.”

Career advising: “Career Advising is a process aimed at helping students effectively use information about themselves and the options available.” Frank Parsons. (1909). Choosing a Vocation. Three broad factors: 1. Clear understanding of self, aptitudes, abilities, interests, ambitions, resources, limitations, and their causes. 2. Knowledge of the requirements and conditions of success, advantages and disadvantages, compensation, opportunities, and prospects in different lines of work. 3. True reasoning on the relations of these two conditions.

Happenstance: Krumboltz’s Learning Theory of Career Counseling Krumboltz believes: individuals learn from their economic, social and cultural experiences these experiences produce the uniqueness of each individual and their actions “Chance events over one’s life span can have both positive and negative consequences. Unpredictable social factors, environmental conditions, and chance events over the life span are to be recognized as important influences in clients’ lives.”

“Good advising may be the single most underestimated characteristic of a successful college experience.” Light, R. J. (2001). Making the Most of College.

Major Taxonomy Class Tasks (assignments) Skills (Knowledge ActionsTraits) 1. Clear understanding of self, aptitudes, abilities, interests, ambitions, resources, limitations, and their causes.

Class Tasks Skills Job People Data/info Things Ideas (Knowledge ActionsTraits) Job Taxonomy

2. Knowledge of the requirements and conditions of success, advantages and disadvantages, compensation, opportunities, and prospects in different lines of work. Network Yours

What have you done for me lately? learned about you

Experience is a chance to learn about… Communication skills/style/experience Leadership skills/style/experience Problem solving skills/style/experience

“People do not fail from lack of ability but lack of vision.”