Promoting Career Exploration through Travel Abroad Programs in High School
High school students need to learn that the more they are exposed to the world around them, the more they can see themselves a part of it. Gaining a global...
A Career Exploration Model for Connecting with Underserved Students
College environments can either foster strong relationships with faculty and staff or hinder students’ connections. Positive relationships “encourage integration, a sense of comfort on campus, and connectedness to college” (Karp,...
Bolstering Resources, Partnerships, and Engagement through Community Asset Mapping
Community asset mapping (CAM) provides a strategy for taking inventory of various resources and skilled individuals available within the community. This strategy can be useful for career practitioners, who regularly...
Understanding and Enhancing Career and College Readiness Self-Efficacy: Evidence-Based Practice
Becoming career and college ready is a challenging process requiring intentional activity during the early stages of career development. Mastering a variety of related challenges is an important pathway to...
Imposter Syndrome and Diverse Groups: Impact and Implications in Career Development
Researchers suggest that diverse groups are more vulnerable to imposter syndrome due to being perpetually stereotyped and unfairly judged. Additionally, under-represented groups in society can feel like an outsider of...
Cultivating Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice in Career Services
Although career practitioners, in particular, have increasing opportunities to work collaboratively with clients to navigate systemic barriers and form their own capacity for agency, career practitioners have a responsibility to...
Embracing Chaos Theory of Careers
Most of our culture still loves the mythology of the linear career path followed by the single-minded visionary. The message we send is that uncertainty is to be feared and...
Accessible Experiential Learning: The Key to Student Success in the Future of Work
A growing chorus of voices is calling for expanded experiential learning to help students develop necessary skills to thrive in the future world of work. However, to be successful, experiential...
Surfacing Bias for Better Career Coaching
Unconscious biases exist in our coaching practices. While biases are normal, we should not accept them as such. As career practitioners, our unconscious biases might influence us in several ways....
Using Adlerian Counseling Strategies to Help Career Clients Design Their Futures
As clients choose among different career paths, the word career may begin to frighten many. Adlerian counseling strategies such as (a) the strength-based interview, (b) early recollections, and (c) “acting...