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Striving for Excellence in Career Advising: A Case Study Approach Ken Hughey Dan Wilcox Kansas State University Dorothy Nelson Southeastern Louisiana University 2011 NACADA Conference Denver, CO October 3, 2011

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Striving for Excellence in Career Advising: A Case Study Approach

Ken HugheyDan Wilcox

Kansas State University

Dorothy NelsonSoutheastern Louisiana University

2011 NACADA ConferenceDenver, CO

October 3, 2011

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Career Advising Resources

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“All students need career advising, even those

who are decided on an academic major”

(Gordon, 2006, p. 5)

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Career advising is a dynamic, interactive process that “helps

students understand how their personal interests, abilities, and

values might predict success in the academic and career fields

they are considering and how to form their academic and career

goals accordingly” (Gordon, 2006, p. 12). “It is a process aimed at

helping students effectively use information about themselves

(e.g., interests, abilities, values, strengths) and the options

available (e.g., majors, occupations, internships)” (Hughey &

Hughey, 2009, p. 6).

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Gordon’s (2006) 3-I Process:A Career Advising Framework

Inquire

Inform

Integrate

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Inquire

“The inquire phase involves identifying students’

academic and career concerns, clarifying their

needs, and making appropriate responses to help

them move to the information-collecting phase”

(Gordon, 2006, p. 47).

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Inform

“The acquisition and effective use of educational and career information is an integral part of academic advising.

Three areas where students need to gather career information are (1) their personal attributes, such as their likes and dislikes; (2) educational information, such as

how academic decisions (e.g., major, coursework) relate to possible career directions and the acquisition of

marketable skills; and (3) the type of occupational information that is pertinent to their academic situation and

career goals.” (Gordon, 2006, p. 63)

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Integrate

“In the integrate phase, advisors and students determine what additional assistance is needed to help students

organize and make meaningful connections between the information sources they have collected. The term

integrate is used in this context to mean coordinating or blending all the student knows into a functioning or

unified whole.” (Gordon, 2006, p. 63)

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Career Advising Questions

1--What do you want to do? 

2--What is stopping you from doing it?

3--What are you doing about it? 

(Figler & Bolles, 2007, p. 106) 

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Questions to Consider Related to Case Studies

1—What are important considerations or issues (e.g., information, needs) in the case?

2—How might you describe or conceptualize the case? What would help you understand the case? What are appropriate goals

for the student?

3—What are recommendations (e.g., interventions, strategies, programs, resources, actions) that might be considered to facilitate

the student’s career and academic planning and development?

 

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Readiness The capability of an individual to make

appropriate career choices taking into account the complexity of family, social, economic, and organizational factors that influence career development

Capability – Individual student factors Complexity – Factors outside the student

Sampson, Peterson, & Reardon, (2004). Career counseling & services: A cognitive information processing approach..

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Capability

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Capability

Cognitive and affective capacity to engage in effective career choice behaviors

How are my career choices influenced by the way I think and feel?

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Capability

• Honest exploration of values, interests, and skills

• Motivated to learn about options

• Able to think clearly about career problems

• Confident of their decision-making ability

• Willing to assume responsibility for problem solving

• Aware of how thoughts and feelings influence behavior

• Able to monitor and regulate problem solving

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Complexity

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Complexity• Contextual factors, originating in the

family, society, economy, or employing organizations that make it more difficult (or less difficult) to solve career problems and make career decisions

• How does the world around me influence my career choices?

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Readiness ModelComplexityComplexity

(high)(high) CapabilityCapability (low) (low) (high) (high) (low)(low)

Low ReadinessHigh Support

Moderate Readiness Moderate-low support

needed

Moderate Readiness Moderate-low support

needed

High ReadinessLittle support needed

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Continuum of Decision StylesDecided Individuals

1) Very decided2) Somewhat decided3) Unstable decided

Undecided Individuals1) Tentatively undecided2) Developmentally undecided3) Seriously undecided4) Chronically indecisive

Gordon, V. N. (1998). The undecided college student: An academic and career advising challenge.

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Career Decidedness Types

Very Decided

Somewhat Decided

Unstable Decided

Tentatively Undecided

Developmentally Undecided

Seriously Undecided

Chronically Indecisive

Gordon, V. N. (1998). The undecided college student: An academic and career advising challenge.

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Assessing Career-related Attributes

• StrengthsQuest• Hollands Self-Directed Search• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator• Informal discussion

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Resources for Occupational Information

• DISCOVER (http://www.act.org/discover/)

• Occupational Outlook Handbook (http://www.bls.gov/oco/)

• O*NET (http://www.onetonline.org/)

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How can I help you . . .

1. discover what motivates you . . . what gets the best out of you?

2. become curious and innovative (entrepreneurial thoughts/

ideas)?

3. get the people skills needed to work in teams/cooperate/ inspire? 

4. get the oral skills you need to persuade/change another’s

attitude or opinion?

5. embrace technology (productivity)? 

 

Ten Career Advising Questions

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How can I help you . . .

6. gain higher math and science competencies without

“saying uncle”?

7. practice business writing (regardless of field, the more

responsibility gained the more persuading others in

writing using documentation is valued)?

8. see education is a means to develop competencies not an

end in itself (lifelong learning)?

9. read, travel, and experiment with new environments to

see beyond present boundaries? 

10. see that polished effort looks a lot like ability? (Feller & O’Bruba, 2009, p. 41)

 

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