CAREER PLANNING FOR SUCCESS

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Advising and Career Planning for Success
Lucy Gammon Kim Billeaudeau
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Walk a mile in their shoes

• Who had an influence on your academic career?
• Who helped you connect your personal and academic
  life?
• Was there a defining moment or experience?

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Advisors can make a difference
Advisors can be wonderful mentors. Advisors show
interest in issues that matter to the
students. Advisors build relationships with
students.
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What can Advisors Do Regarding Student Career
Development?

• Help students consider career fields/majors based
  on their interests, skills, values and strengths
• Communicate to students the importance of self
  assessment and career planning
• Encourage life long learning and the development
  of transferable skills, to better compete in
  todays changing job market

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How Can We Help YOU Help Your Students?
The Career Counseling Center Lucy C. Gammon
Offering Help with Major Decisions through
Career Testing, Career Exploration and Career
Decision Making Class. Career Services Kim
Billeaudeau Assists Students with career
planning, job search preparation and connecting
with jobs and employers. Conference Center Room
104
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SAME GOAL
Helping students plan a career that suits
their purpose and passion in life as well as
relies on their best skills.
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THE CAREER COUNSELING CENTER

• Offering Help with MAJOR Decisions
• careercounseling.louisiana.edu

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Who Visits the Center

• Perspective students
• Incoming students invited during Orientation
• Currently enrolled student looking to change
  their major
• Undeclared students required to come by their
  advisors
• Students who are researching what they can do
  with their degree

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Unsure About a Major?  

• Research by Penn State and other institutions
  has shown that up to 80 percent of students
  entering college are unsure about their major,
  even if they've initially declared a major.
• Up to 50 percent of college students change
  their majors at least once before graduation, and
  on average, college students may change their
  major three times over the course of their
  college career.

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Benefits of Career Planning

• (Reference Americas Career Research Network
  Association-US Dept of Education.)
• While In College
• Fewer transfers switching of majors
• Graduate on time
• More motivated goal focused
• Higher academic achievement
• After Graduation
• Better entry job with higher income
• More satisfied with chosen career field
• Less career change, faster career advancement

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The consequences of not planning are costly

• Absence of Career Planning is a major cause of
• Switching majors
• College transfer
• Dropout
• Extended years in school
• Research by the US Department of Education and
  American College Testing shows
• 51 of U.S. college students entering 4 year
  colleges will transfer or dropout
• Of this 51
• 30 transfer to another college or change their
  major
• 20 transfer 2X and require 6 years to
  graduate
• 50 dropout completely

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What Students Should Consider When Choosing a
Major

• Is this major right for me---Career Testing
• Coursework required for this Major
• Type of career opportunities that this major will
  offer
• Educational level required for those career
  opportunities
• Employment outlookNational, State and Regional
• Average salary levels---National, State and
  Regional
• Advice from experts in the field and type of work
  required

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Steps to a GoodCareer Search

• Self Assessment
• Research and
• Exploration
• Career Plan

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CAREER TESTING

• CHOICES by Bridges (ONLINE)
• FOCUS 2 by Career Dimensions
• Campbell Interest and Skill Survey

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Why Choices?

• Interest Profiler
• Basic Skills Survey
• Work Importance Locator
• 650 ONET occupations
• Career Area Checklist
• 7,000 colleges and graduate schools
• 1,000 college website links
• 400 career videos
• 2000 scholarship opportunities

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Make a Good Choice
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Career Decision Making ClassACSK 140

• ACSK 140 is a half-semester, one-credit hour
  course
• The class is taught primarily online.
• Students are required to take career tests in
  this course

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Career Counseling Center Website
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UL Lafayette Majors
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Inform Your Students About Our Services

• An appointment is NOT needed to use the Center
• The Center is a free service to students
• Career Testing available
• Choices by Bridges
• FOCUS 2 by Career Dimensions, Inc.
• The Campbell Interest and Skill Survey
• Informational materials
• Career Class-Career Decision Making
• Counseling
• careercounseling.louisiana.edu

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Career Counseling Center  Careercounseling.louisia
na.edu   337.482.5431
Offering Help with Major Decisions

• Career Testing Software
• Career Counseling
• Career Decision Making Course (ACSK 140)

The Career Counseling Centers hours 800 AM to
430 PM M-TH 800 AM to 1200 PM F Most
services are FREE to current UL Lafayette
students. Please bring your UL Lafayette I.D.
with you when visiting our Center.
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ExploringCAREER SERVICES
Conference Center, Room 104 careerservices.louisia
na.edu
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Customers of Career Services

• Students
• Alumni
• Employers
• Faculty Staff

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Services for Students

• Job Listings
• On Campus Interviewing
• Co-op Program
• Career Recruitment Days
• Workshops
• Resume Writing Assistance
• Resource Room
• Guest Speakers

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NEED A JOB?
Check out CAREER SERVICES ONLINE
http//careerservices.louisiana.edu
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Services for StudentsCareer Services Online

• Part-time
• Full-time
• Internships
• Co-op positions
• Summer

Many local employers as well as employers
nationwide are posting jobs for all UL Lafayette
students and alumni in CAREER SERVICES ONLINE.
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Career Services Online
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On-Campus Employment
UL Lafayette College Work Study Office Foster
Hall 2nd Floor
Off-Campus Employment
UL Lafayette Career Services Conference Center
Room 104
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Online Resources Offered by Career Services

• Search apply for a job, upload your resume,
  register for Career Events, sign up for mock
  interviews.
• Watch short videos online to help improve your
  job search and the steps to landing it.
• Quickly and effortlessly create essential
  professional resumes and cover letters with this
  online program.
•  Search through all majors and discover what
  careers are available to match your interests.
• Read blogs from professionals regarding career
  concerns and opportunities.

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Services for StudentsOn-Campus Interviewing
Each semester Career Services coordinates
approximately 40 50 employer visits on campus
to interview students for Full-time, Internship
Co-op positions.
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Services for StudentsCooperative Education
Program
Cooperative Education is a supervised educational
program for qualified students which integrates
periods of academic study with periods of paid,
professional work experience.
Benefits of a Co-op

• Retain Full Time student status
• Gain real world experience
• Earn while you learn

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Services for StudentsCAREER FAIRS

• Representatives from Major Companies Agencies
  attend
• Recruiters from Graduate Professional Schools
  attend

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CAREER EVENTS

• Campus wide Career Days
• Business, Government, Liberal Arts, General Day
• Engineering, Sciences, Technology Day
• Nursing Allied Health Day
• Teacher Recruitment Day
• Liberal Arts Day

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Services for StudentsWorkshops/Events

• Resume Writing
• Interviewing Tips
• Mock Interviews
• Employer Panels
• Dining/Business Etiquette

http//careerservices.louisiana.edu
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Services for StudentsIndividual Appointments

• Students may contact our office to schedule an
  appointment for individual advising with a staff
  member during any phase of their career planning
  or job search process.

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CAREER SERVICES
Conference Center, Room 104 Monday Thursday
730 500 Friday 730 1230 482-1444 careers
ervices.louisiana.edu
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Encourage yourStudents to Take
Action

• Visit the Career Counseling Center and talk to
  the counselor and use the tools available at the
  Center
• Join a student organization in your field
• Seek out professionals in the field and ask
  questions
• Research your career options by attending a
  career fair on campus
• Try a volunteering in your community
• Think about an internship or summer job in your
  area of study
• Let Career Services assist you in preparing your
  resume and seeking out just the right job.

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Test

• To receive Advisor Training credit (for advising
  awards) please right click here and select Open
  Hyperlink. After completion, save the file as
  your name then attach the file in an email to
  asc_at_louisiana.edu or print and send your answers
  through campus mail to Bette Harris c/o Academic
  Success Center.