Career Coaching for Christian Marsden

Click on the following link for your: Vocational Style & Career Assessment for Students (VoSCA-St) Click on the following link for the: O*Net Online Career Research Tool

Career Coaching Session #1: Wednesday May 22, 2013

- Christian's E-mail address is Christian.marsden@aol.com - Christian is 14 years old - He attends secondary school at St. Mary's College and is currently in Form 3 - I discussed the results of the VoSCA assessment with Christian, specifically his scores in the various categories of Interests, Intelligence Types, Values, and Work Styles. His scores can be reviewed in the report itself. - Here are the careers that the VoSCA assessment recommended for Christian and how he rated them in terms of his passion level (1 is no passion and 10 is the highest passion): #1 Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary (2/10) #2 Industrial-Organizational Psychologists (3/10) #3 English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary (1/10) #4 Farm and Home Management Advisors (4/10) #5 Instructional Coordinators (5/10) #6 Education Administrators, Elementary and Secondary School (2/10) #7 Counseling Psychologists (3/10) #8 Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary (6/10) #9 Lawyer (7/10) #10 Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary (6/10) Additional Career Matches #11 Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary (5/10) #12 Communications Teachers, Postsecondary (4/10) #13 Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary (4/10) #14 Education Administrators, Postsecondary (6/10) #15 School Psychologists (7/10) #16 Speech-Language Pathologists (6/10) #17 Operations Research Analysts (6/10) #18 Home Economics Teachers, Postsecondary (5/10) #19 Survey Researchers (7/10) #20 Law Teachers, Postsecondary (6/10) #21 Genetic Counselors (6/10) #22 Nurse Practitioners (7/10) #23 Clinical Nurse Specialists (4/10) #24 Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary (5/10) #25 Architects, Except Landscape and Naval (6/10) #26 Risk Management Specialists (8/10) #27 Physical Therapists (7/10) #28 Mathematicians (7/10) #29 Directors, Religious Activities and Education (6/10) #30 Anthropologists (7/10) - Christian seems to lean more toward a career in the field of business, especially as an Entrepreneur, Bio-mechanical Engineer, and with some interest in teaching and mentoring younger people. - Christian is thinking of taking the following subjects as he gets ready to transition to Form 4 in September 2013:

Math
English Language
English Literature
Physics,
Biology,
Principles of Business
Economics
A foreign language such as Spanish or French

Acknowledgements from Session #1: - I acknowledged Christian for completing the VoSCA assessment - I also acknowledged him for coming to this Career Coaching session to get a better understanding of what career path he would like to pursue. Takeaways from Session #1: - Christian liked the process of doing the assessment he feels a little clearer about the process of career discovery. - He also feels good about his choice of subjects for Form 4 and the fact that they will allow him to pursue many of the careers many of the careers that he showed considerable interest in on the VoSCA assessment. Action Plan from Session #1: - Christian agreed to review the VoSCA report in more detail and research on the Internet using the O*Net Online Career Research Tool (www.onetonline.org) the recommended careers below which he scored 6 or more out of 10, and document your research in this password-protected blog under the section at the end called “Leave a Reply”. The careers on his shortlist from the main ones recommended shown below. However, there may a few from the "Additional Matches" list and from the "Related Careers" section under each career that Christian may choose to add to the shortlist below. For any of these additional careers, he should at least copy and paste the following sections from the O*Net site into the blog: Tasks, Knowledge, Related Careers, and Wages & Employment Trends. Careers that Christian rated 7 or more out of 10 #1 Risk Management Specialists (8/10) #2 Physical Therapists (7/10) #3 Mathematicians (7/10) #4 Lawyer (7/10) #5 Survey Researchers (7/10) #6 School Psychologists (7/10) #7 Nurse Practitioners (7/10) #8 Anthropologists (7/10) Careers that Christian rated 6 out of 10 #9 Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary (6/10) #10 Education Administrators, Postsecondary (6/10) #11 Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary (6/10) #12 Speech-Language Pathologists (6/10) #13 Operations Research Analysts (6/10) #14 Law Teachers, Postsecondary (6/10) #15 Genetic Counselors (6/10) #16 Architects, Except Landscape and Naval (6/10) #17 Directors, Religious Activities and Education (6/10) - Finalize his choice of subjects as you get ready to transition to Form 4 in September 2013. These are the subjects that he indicated he was planning on taking:

Math
English Language
English Literature
Physics,
Biology,
Principles of Business
Economics
A foreign language such as Spanish or French

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