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The mission of the Counseling Department is to serve as a resource for all students by providing a caring, supportive environment in which students can examine, explore, and make decisions about career, personal and academic matters. Students are assisted in goal clarification, achieving academic success, and resolving personal dilemmas.
Academic Success Resources
• www.usd.edu/trio/tut/ts/style.html
There are three basic types of learning styles. To learn, we depend on our senses to process the information around us.
Career Counseling
Student Services Counselors offer an assortment of individual or group services to assist with the process of making a career decision that is insightful and well-informed. Career Counseling services are available to all residents of the CSC district at no-charge and fall into the categories of self-awareness resources and occupational resources.
Self-Awareness Resources
Selecting an occupation that complements your personality, interests, personal and relationship goals requires a significant amount of self-awareness. The Counseling staff at CSC an assist you through confidential, individualized sessions with the process of selecting and interpreting the self-awareness instruments that best suit your personal needs.
Online Self-awareness resources
www.careercruising.com Username: CSC, Password: Careers
Career Cruising offers a brief interest inventory to generate occupational options based on your interests.
www.personalitypage.com/portraits/html
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) provides insight occupational options and the potential decision-making issues related to choosing a career. The full length MBTI questionnaire is available by appointment with a Student Services Counselor.
http://career.asu.edu/S/careerplan/selfdiscovery/ValuesAssessment.htm
This brief values assessment from Arizona State University will identify your primary work and personal values. The inclusion of values when making your career decision will result in fewer conflicts between your career and personal objectives.
www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/car/self/career_transfer_survey.html
This brief skills inventory from the University of Minnesota, Duluth can help you identify skills that you possess that may not be obvious from your work history. Many of us may lack awareness of or underestimate our transferrable skills; we may be selling ourselves short when choosing a career. Additionally, recognizing your transferrable skills will be extremely valuable as you network and interview for employment.
Occupational Research
Taking time to research the options generated by an interest or personality inventory will enable you to make an informed decision based on fact, rather than merely following a hunch. Occupational research can provide the following information:
• Information regarding the daily duties for an occupation
• Degree and or certification requirements for an occupation
• Starting and average salaries
• Projections for future job opportunities
• Related or similar jobs
• Working conditions
The following listings represent examples of well-established websites for researching occupations:
- www.careercruising.com User name: CSC, Password: Careers
In addition to the information typically provided at employment websites, Career Cruising also provided projections for each state to identify the regions of the country where opportunities for employment are greatest. Career Cruising also identifies what percentage of expected job openings is due to retirements and what percentage is due to anticipated growth.
- http://www.bls.gov
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (A-Z index), compiled by the Bureau of Labor, provides federal nationwide projections for specific occupational fields. This website also identifies long-term national trends regarding overall employment patterns throughout the country.
- http://www.ilworkinfo.com/
The Workforce Information Center website is maintained by the Illinois Department of Employment Security. Once you establish your site identify and password, you may gather employment projections for occupations specific to urban areas and WIA regions in the state of Illinois. This provision permits gathering information specific to your specific region of the state of Illinois.
Personal and Social Counseling
Student Services Counselors are available to provide short term counseling services for students facing personal issues that interfere with their ability to reach their educational and personal goals. The special skills and training of the counseling staff enable them to work with students on a short term individual or group basis. Contact Student Services to schedule an appointment with a counselor.
In addition to individual and group counseling the following mental health and academic related virtual pamphlets can be accessed at the following websites:
What to expect from personal counseling
Individual counseling sessions are typically 50 minutes and by appointment only. The information shared will not become part of your educational records. Counseling is solution focused and short term in nature. Counselors will, if appropriate, refer individuals to public and/or private community agencies and resources for more extensive counseling or other special service.
Counseling Confidentiality Statement
As a client, all information you share about yourself will be kept confidential. Only with your written permission will information be released to anyone aside from your CSC Counselor except as required by law. Legal exceptions include the following:
• Clear and imminent danger to you or someone else
• Reasonable suspicion of child abuse, elder abuse or abuse of a vulnerable adult.
• A court order.
All CSC Counselors are ethically bound to treat client information confidentially.
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