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Advising Webinar Today!


The Counseling and Advising Center will host the "Making Career Advising Integral to Academic Advising" webinar sponsored by the Kansas State University College of Education and the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA).  Please plan to join us today from 2- 3:30 in the Empire Room.  

Career advising can enhance advisors’ work with students and facilitate students’ career and academic development and decision making. Career advising helps students to understand the relationship between their academic programs and career opportunities, to make academic and career decisions, to clarify and set career and academic goals, and to develop plans to achieve their goals. Given the number of career and academic options and the complexity of the changing workplace, career advising is increasingly important. Gordon (2006) stated, “All students need career advising, even those who enter college already decided on an academic major” (p. 5). As a result, it is important that advisors respond to the diverse needs of students. Integrating career and academic advising focuses on preparing students for the future and assisting them to make informed career and academic decisions.

Key Points will include:
Career advising
Applying career theories to career advising
Integrating career and academic advising
Advisor competencies needed for effective career advising
The advisor’s role in facilitating students’ academic and career planning
The career advising process
Resources, activities and interventions to enhance career advising

Taine Vinci
Counseling and Advising
05/13/2008