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Life Work Planning

CounselingStudent Services

Core Course Topics

  1. Self-analysis

  2. Discovering the world of work

  3. Enhancements to one's life work journey

  4. Barriers to one's life work journey

  5. How to make decisions to improve one's life work journey

  6. How to develop a life work plan and report on it

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Take a series of assessments that measure one's interests, values, experiences, abilities and personality.

Produce a list of possible careers.

Create a life work profile based on the assessments.

Identify careers from the World of Work Map that match one's life work profile.

Identify factors that can make one's life work journey go smoothly.

Identify factors that have the potential to make one's life work journey difficult.

Identify how one makes decisions based upon models of decision making.

Experience decision making exercise that test one's decision making capabilities.

Identify one major decision within the life arena or work arena that needs to be addressed.

Create a personal plan to operationalize the decisions one is willing to make to improve in either the life or work arena.