What are your favorite resources for helping students discover potential career choices?
The interviewer would like to know what resources you prefer to utilize when advising your students on their potential career choices. Give at least two strong examples if you can. This shows that you are well-rounded and able to offer variety to your students. As an academic advisor, you have access to various resources to help students explore potential careers. These resources may include career assessment tests, job shadowing and internship opportunities, career fairs, and networking events with industry professionals. Additionally, you might recommend websites and online tools that can assist students in researching different career paths and job opportunities.
Describe a few of your favorite resources and why you prefer using them. At the end of your response, be sure to ask the interviewer if they have any recommendations or favorites as well. This can strike up a friendly and informative conversation.
"I like to take a well-rounded and modern approach when it comes to the resources I offer my students. These days, if it isn't online or available on a device, they simply don't follow through on the resource. For this reason, my top 2 resources are Gladeox.org where students can take an online career quiz as well as utilize other resources for career discovery. The second resource I frequently use is 16personalities.com. It's a fun, interactive, and incredibly focused personality quiz which gives career suggestions based on your core characteristics. Do you have other resources that you prefer to use?"
"While completing my masters' degree, I learned of a few fantastic resources for helping students discover new career choices. A few of the most memorable ones were an exploratory quiz as well as an academic success plan template. Which are the favorite resources used at your educational facility?"
"Over the years, I have leaned on two primary resources for helping my students to discover potential career choices. First, predictivesuccess.com which helps me to predict a student's behavior and then create an action plan. Second, my employer's internal program that offers a variety of career discovery resources. Could you share with me the resources that you use here?"
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Anonymous Answer
Students enjoy using some of the online resources I offer them during sessions. These include personality tests on websites such as icould, Prospects, and the National Careers Development website. With London Met students, Prospects would be useful in helping navigate through career paths and job profiles. And GradTouch could be beneficial for students to search for industry placements and internships.
Rachelle's Feedback
These are great resources to use! Your answer is full of helpful detail that will show the interviewer your depth of knowledge regarding tools and resources available today.
Anonymous Answer
There are a couple of resources that I use frequently with the students My Career Shines and focus2 which are software the college offers and are very effective. There are other options online that are very good like for instance, 16personalities.com or Gladeox.org.
Rachelle's Feedback
Excellent! These are fantastic resources, and your answer highlights the fact that you are in-the-know of resources available in your industry.
"Two resources I frequently use, including 'MyCareerShines' and 'Focus2 Career', which are very powerful software options the college offers. There are other options online that are very good, for instance, 16personalities.com or Gladeox.org."
Anonymous Answer
In progress: In addition to Career Coach on our website, I primarily use Oregon Career Information Systems (CIS) and indeed.com. Students can use both interchangeably. You can input your major area into Indeed.com as well as into UO CIS. Now O*Net Online has a new look and I'm looking at that more closely
When searching an explorer can drill down to the specific tasks and choose those that most appeal to them. Then they can search in Oregon CIS and Indeed.com and continue to build that way.
We have excellent proven resources you can use and the great thing is that you can work at your own pace. The more time you devote to it the more you will find out. It will begin a little slowly with the assessments and then it can really take off. These are skills and resources you can use for a long time. Every time you are looking for work or changing careers or degrees.
I usually ask students how motivated they are to discover potential careers. I say that I have resources that have proven to work and ask if they are interested and will follow through. If the student is interested I let them know that the process builds slowly.
Just as important to cross things off your list
Values, where you want to live, salary, job growth, and availability
Bookmark the pages and keep going through them
They can return and work with someone in our office or reach out to program faculty.
Eventually informational interviewing, job shadowing, and internships would be ideal
If you have any barriers to a career there are sections on these websites and this is something we can discuss; there are other folks on campus you can also speak with about this.
I also like:
O*Net online through U.S. Department of Labor"”My Next Move was just redesigned and I like the look of it" 900 occupation.
Bright outlooks
The geographic area where jobs are located
Job growth and availability
My next Move in English and Spanish
Veteran's section
Can browse by occupations or keywords, by skills, abilities, or interests/related occupations
If you have any barriers to careers or strengths, like a second language or personal or job experience, we'd want to work with that in mind.
Marcie's Feedback
Wow! What a thorough response that shows your extensive knowledge in this area. Impressive! Any interviewer would come away from this realizing that you know what you're talking about, stay up-to-date with industry trends, and are passionate about this industry. This is a very strong answer!
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