Today, Cynthia Bink from Counseling Services spoke about the many services available through the College’s Counseling Center, including individual counseling and workshops available to facilitate better adjustment to college life. We spoke most, however, about the Career Assessment tools available online at in their offices. In addition to leaving handouts, you were all guided to the online career assessment tool SIGI3. You can go to the link below and click on SIGI. If you did not get the passcode in class, email me to get this. (I don’t want to post it online.)

http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/counseling/selecting-area-study.aspx

As instructed in class, as you plan and do personal research for Essay 2, you will be required to complete the surveys on SIGI that evaluate four aspects of your interests and values.

• Under the category “Surveys” are four categories: Values, Interests, Personality, and Skills.
• In each category there are three activities: Pairs, Cards, and Quick Picks.
• As you take the assessments (remember they are not “tests”), write down a few notes to help you remember the experience of taking them.

After you have completed these activities look at the areas of interests suggested in your results and consider how your current career and life goals relate or don’t relate to these assessments. Do you agree with the results you got? Do you feel like you need to reassess?

In today’s discussion,  we talked about how personal values can affect career choices. We’ve also discussed how family members have opinions that need to be considered but ultimately your college career is your own and you should approach it that way.