By: Erin Leslie, EQ-i Certified
Choosing a career can be a daunting task for young adults. Being the parent of a child embarking on this process can be stressful as there are not always simplified resources available in academia to support young adults with the tools to guide them to a fulfilling profession.
It’s especially hard for a young person, as they have less work experience and limited life experiences to know what they like and how to best leverage their skills in a work environment. Part of parenting is providing the pathways to help guide a decision-making process so that the result is a self-made fulfilling choice and a new horizon towards personal development. However rarely does life follow a unique path and when time and ideas are limited resources where do you and/or your child turn to for support?
Career counselling helps individuals discover their best suited career pathway and helps to guide them with tools to improve essential career building skills.
It’s important to choose the right educational options in order to lead to a great first step into a new career journey. Through coaching and vocational assessments, you can have important information in hand in a short matter of time to make informed and positive decisions for you career.
Did you know that career choices before or after graduation depend on your ability to network in your preferred industry?
Not sure what is your preferred industry?
Not sure how to network?
Looking for help to improve your ability to land the right job for your career now or after you graduate?
Career counselling is a proven support to getting the tools you need to succeed.
Here are a few of the ways in which career counselling can give you a personal edge on leading a successful early career experience:
- Resume tips
- Understanding the power of Mentorship
- Skills and vocational types assessments
- Networking guidance
- Interview preparation 101
- Presentation materials and tips
- Industry and profession navigation support
- Job market trends
- Passion vs. Needs and how to balance your vocational objectives
- Core skills and how to bring them to the forefront in your work
Don’t wait to plan your career, a common myth is that you need to be a graduate in order to plan your career. Get a head start on being in the right work for you at the beginning of your career. Learn how to build a successful carer plan that you can adapt over time to support your vocation development with a career coach.
Erin Leslie is a career counsellor at the Centre for Interpersonal Relationships (CFIR). Recenlty named 2022 Top 15 Coaches in Ottawa. With over 20 years in business leading technology teams delivering innovation in private and public sectors, Erin understands the complexity of career building and business strengths through an emotional intelligence lens. She publicly speaks about the invisible skillset EQ and how industries are shifting to a more human-centered focus to improve outcomes for employees, products and services. Erin is certified in EQ-i 2.0 assessments, performs vocational assessment analysis, and career planning to help professionals, teams and newcomers’ with all aspects of business negotiation, personal branding, networking and career accelerator skills. She believes that every career could benefit from career counselling.
