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Guided Self Assessment
For students struggling to identify potential careers and majors
A powerful “career-minded” tool
Available to students in grades 10 and up
When thinking about career, success, and options for your child, we are troubled by this news:
- 60% of students are taking longer than 4 years to graduate. Having TOO many choices in college is causing students to wander without a defined path.
- 1 out of every 3 students change their major at least once. Add in transferring between colleges….both have a huge impact on the cost of that 4-year degree. Many students struggle to understand the connection between majors and careers.
Doing something tangible in high school can clarify your child’s choices so they have a surer footing going into college and career.
Most students have NO clue what careers exist and which are a good fit for them.
Students struggle to identify potential careers and majors. They even struggle with whether or not to GO to college. Is going because everyone else is a good enough reason?
In high school, the focus is on the next test, book, project, lunch, football game or tennis match. Our process guides them through important thinking now to give them confidence and clarity.
Do 10th & 11th graders need to think about jobs now?!
“You can’t really think my teen is ready to talk about careers!” You know what? Most of them really are. They know decisions are ahead, and they hear other kids start making bold statements about their career plans.
Click to read about how doing this thinking now will help guide them every step of the way!
Why does anyone go to college?
Students tell us they go to college “to get a better job.” College is not far away. The sooner good clues can emerge, the better.
So, how can you help your high school student? What is Guided Self Assessment?
Beth Probst, founder and CEO of At The Core LLC, spoke about Guided Self Assessment. Click the video to hear from Beth!
Click to read our blog with some answers to parent’s most often asked questions.
Schedule your 30-minute no-fee, no-obligation meeting to see if it’s right for you:
Click here to access our meeting calendar
(An At The Core facilitator will be in contact soon about meeting in a local coffee shop or via online technology.)
High school students have three choices ahead: major, college, and career.
After Guided Self Assessment, students make these choices with confidence and clarity.
Guided Self Assessment can be a game changer!
It helps young adults (grades 10 & up) identify their strongest personal traits, strengths, challenges, preferences, values and more so they can make better choices.
Our experienced facilitators guide the student through five one-hour, one-on-one casual interviews to draw out this information.
Our team analyzes all their input, making connections, and reasonable conclusions. We report to the family all the findings, including a list of potential careers to explore and a customized set of next steps.
Click to see what others have to say about Guided Self Assessment!
Questions? Need more details? Visit our FAQ page, give us a call at (614) 404-0646, or drop us an email.
Speed is not our goal – our process is built to take time. Guided Self Assessment is a “verbal journey.” We are kind of the antithesis of a quick-hit 40 question quiz that spits out an answer. We INTEND for the process to take time. There is VALUE in consideration and “mindfulness.”
–Beth Probst, Founder and CEO
During the course of several interviews, students:
- navigate the far reaches of their experiences, aspirations and uncertainties
- sort and sift, question and ponder with an unbiased guide skilled in the art of interviewing
- spend time thinking about themselves, a very important deliverable in this process
What is the real value to this process?
- Students actively consider experiences, guided by an engaged & independent 3rd party.
- Understanding their strongest traits will assist with choices, interviews, essays, etc.
- Potential savings of an extra year in college! Indecision leads to transferring or changing of majors – not to mention lost wages/retirement savings.
- Helps the student develop their criteria for building their college list.
- Lays the groundwork for effective career exploration activities.
Guided Self Assessment
At a glance….
- FIRST, click to schedule your family meeting to learn more
- Five one-hour interviews with student
- Minor homework in between
- Facilitators analyze, research, and collaborate
- Student reviews the draft of results
- Facilitator’s report includes resources tailored to your student
- Final family meeting (90-120 minutes)
IDEAL TIME (Grades 10 & up): Sophomore or junior year, but it can work for slightly older students too!
Schedule your 30-minute no-fee, no-obligation meeting to see if it’s right for you:
Click here to access our meeting calendar
(An At The Core facilitator will be in contact soon about meeting in a local coffee shop or via online technology.)
What some past students have to say about Guided Self Assessment…
You work so hard to provide your children with what they need to succeed!
At The Core offers a solution for the particular challenges you are facing.
Find that common understanding of what is important to your student!
“By taking simple questions and going so in depth, At The Core was able to recognize things I had never thought of before.”
“This process was different than any aptitude test or discussion with my guidance counselor…”
Schedule your 30-minute no-fee, no-obligation meeting to see if it’s right for you:
Click here to access our meeting calendar
(An At The Core facilitator will be in contact soon about meeting in a local coffee shop or via online technology.)
Questions? Visit our FAQ page, give us a call at (614) 404-0646, or drop us an email.
Is your student younger than a sophomore?
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