The 8 Factors of Career Advising
The 8 Factors of Career Advising
Self–Awareness: Self-Awareness skills refer to individuals gaining the ability to identify their interests, skills, and work values. Self-awareness includes understanding one’s own mastery level of career readiness (employability) skills. This enhanced self-awareness paves the way to effectively explore careers and identify personal career goals with the best fit.
Academic Support: Academic Support refers to a wide variety of instructional methods, educational services, or school’s resources provided to students to help them be successful in their learning process. It is a practice that encompasses a broad array of educational strategies including tutoring sessions, supplemental courses, summer learning experiences, before/after school programs, teacher advisors, mentors, as well as alternative ways of grouping, advising, and instructing students.
Advising: Advising is vital to student success. Students should receive individual advisement from counselors, advisors, and/or teachers to feel supported in academic and career planning. Students need to be challenged to take rigorous coursework and they need regular and ongoing communication with counselors and advisors to ensure they are aware of academic and career-based opportunities and expectations.
College and Career Exposure: Defining “college and career options to include all varieties of postsecondary education and training” is essential as students begin their career journey. In our current economy, it is important to dispel the myth that everyone must take the same path to career success. All options are a way to learn and gain skills. Different career goals require different preparation.
College Application and Enrollment: College application and enrollment refers to the knowledge and skills that enable students to successfully transition into post-secondary education. Students and families will know the options they have to help fund their education, how to determine college fit, financial aid requirements, including how to complete a FAFSA, admission criteria and application processes. Students and families will have the knowledge they need to make informed decisions after graduation from high school.
Family Knowledge and Engagement: Family support is an integral part of student success; therefore, it is important to link family engagement to student learning. Family knowledge and engagement should be purposely designed as a core component of educational goals such as school readiness, academic achievement, graduation rates, college readiness, career exploration and more.
Military Enlistment: Having a clear understanding and being knowledgeable of the array of career and academic opportunities within the military will help expand student options for post high school success.
Professional Development: The OhioMeansJobs-Readiness Seal* is a formal designation a student can earn by demonstrating the professional skills that are required for success in the workplace. The student can earn the OhioMeansJobs-Readiness Seal by asking three or more mentors to validate that the student demonstrated the professional skills valued by Ohio businesses.
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