Career Services
Career Counselling
“After my sessions I feel so confident; it is so liberating to know what you want to do and how to get there."
-Elizabeth Kokoski
What is Career Counselling?
Career Counseling provides individualized sessions, where students explore career options with a Career Development Practitioner. The main focus of career counseling is to identify career interests and develop an actionable plan. The Career Development Practitioner will employ a repertoire of diverse techniques and processes, to help bring about self-understanding and informed career decision making. Some of the instruments used are the MBTI, The Strong Interest Inventory, The Work Personality Index, Interest Profiler, and the FIROB.
The Career Counselling Process
In order to deliver quality Career Services, Career Development practitioners at Brescia University College follow the standards and guidelines described by the Canadian Council of Career Development Associations and the Canadian Career Development Foundation. The Career Counseling Process consists of helping students develop self-awareness and identify possible career interests, providing connections for them to resources and support services in order to increase their occupation and labour market knowledge.
Through individual sessions students learn about and explore degree-related labour market trends. Students will learn to link personal interests to possible opportunities and connect employment possibilities to individual skills. The focus of informed decision making is on teaching students to align their interests, values, and aspirations to career planning.
Individualized Career Planning
The focus of individualized career planning is to assist students in becoming active managers of their career planning, including managing career transitions and managing various life roles. Students are taught to set long-term and short-term realistic career goals and develop a measurable action plan in order to enter their desired profession.
As students become more comfortable with their career choices, career development practitioners focus on engaging students in active strategized job searching. Students engage in job search strategies such as writing a resume and cover letter, polishing interview skills, niche specific job searching, networking, mentorship, and the development of a professional portfolio.
For more information please contact:
Manager of Career Development and Student Engagement
Student Services Centre
St. James Building, Room 119
Office hours 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (Monday-Friday)