1. CAREER SERVICES
2 major challenges:
1. Many of our students are not
motivated when it comes to career
planning
2. Career Services (everywhere) is being
asked to do more with less

2. CAREER PLANNING:
what we are doing now
• Easily accessible career assessment
inventories (on website)
• Encouraged by Admissions
• Not easily accessible interpretation/counseling
• COLL1500: career planning module
• Financial aid suspensions are forced to do an
Educational Plan

3. Career Goals and Retention
• Students reporting job-related goals are more
likely to make positive persistence decisions
than students reporting unknown goals.
“Career Goals and Retention-Related Factors Among College
Freshmen”, Journal of Career Development September 2005 32: 16-30

4. CHALLENGE
• How to motivate students to do career
planning positively
• How to get face to face with students who do
take the test

5. Resources
• 2 inventories on our website:
FOCUS and Discover
• Encouraged by Admissions staff
• 2 new positions coming soon