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Anyone here ever visited a career counselor?

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Arkitech

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I'm thinking I should schedule an appointment with a career counselor to help transition to a new job. I need to figure out what I'm best suited for (probably raking leaves).


So anyone out there ever go to career counseling?

Was it helpful?

How much did you have to pay?

How long did it take to find a new job once you figured out what you wanted to do?

How do you find out which counselors are the best?
 
wouldn't this be something you would do while in HS or before college? unless you are actually going to take the plunge and go back to school.
 
Most universities do, but I guess you're past that now. The best use for them is getting your foot in the door for internships etc,.
I don't think anyone can tell you what you should do, they'll just do a personality test or some such thing which I've seen correlate to my personal goals but my goal decisions were never affected by those tests.

so...no I doubt much help for you but perhaps some insight. Just do what you find interesting, that's my philosophy.
 
Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Let me be your career counselor:

Start your own business.

/counseling session.
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I'm actually doing a small business on the side but it's going to take awhile before I can depend on it for fulltime income. In the meanwhile I gotta keep a dayjob.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
wouldn't this be something you would do while in HS or before college? unless you are actually going to take the plunge and go back to school.
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I think I'm experiencing career burnout so it's time to re-assess what I'm doing. I'm getting depressed just thinking about going back to work tomorrow.
 
Originally posted by: everman
Just do what you find interesting, that's my philosophy.
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I'm working on it, unfortunately a lot of what I find interesting probably would'nt pay very much.
 
I saw a 50 some odd year old man collecting shopping carts in front of a grocery store today and it made me sad.
 
Originally posted by: Arkitech
I'm thinking I should schedule an appointment with a career counselor to help transition to a new job. I need to figure out what I'm best suited for (probably raking leaves).

So anyone out there ever go to career counseling?

Was it helpful?

How much did you have to pay?

How long did it take to find a new job once you figured out what you wanted to do?

How do you find out which counselors are the best?
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It sounds hokey, but it can be invaluable. It depends where you find youself, personally.

In many cases, they will take you through 1:1 exercises designed to help you to recall the things that you were most successful (recognition, rewards, promotion generating) at doing. There will also be exercises designed to help you to identify the things that you found to be the most rewarding (personally). The goal is to find and build on things from list #2 (personally rewarding) that also fall on list #1. Then identify careers with those type of positions, so you can transition into something that you enjoy, which you also might be good at.
 
Yes I did both in the military, and at university.

Only helped me realize what I really wanted to do.

It was free.

Didn't help me find a job, because this was during my studies.
 
Hmmm. Maybe you should look into becoming a career counselor yourself. I mean, everyone on ATOT like to tell people what to do with their life anyways....



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Originally posted by: Queasy
Hmmm. Maybe you should look into becoming a career counselor yourself. I mean, everyone on ATOT like to tell people what to do with their life anyways....



😉
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lol, probably would'nt work for me as I can't even figure out what to do with myself
 
Maybe this will help:

Many (most?) universities will allow you FREE access to their career centers for life, as long as you're an alum in good standing (which, at my school, means you didn't even have to graduate). I've recently used the services of my old school's office of career services, and I found the career counsellors to be helpful and knowledgable.

So, to summarize: If you can, save some $$$ and try your alma mater's office of career services first.

 
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