Selecting your career is a life-long process. Your major selection may direct your initial focus, but careers tend to branch out in new (sometimes unexpected) ways through one’s experiences and changing interests, an evolving job market, and networking. ACE Coaches seek to enhance student empowerment to make these decisions through informed self-direction.
“Informed self-direction” may take the form of personality, interests, values, and skills assessments, but these assessments are not definitive person-to-occupation match generators. They are simply tools to stimulate learning and self-knowledge.
When defining goals, students sometimes forget to consider what they are willing to do (or can feasibly manage) to reach them and to work in the field successfully (i.e., the rigor of coursework, licensing requirements, general commitments of working in that profession, etc.). Knowing one’s stamina, tolerance, preferences, and limits is part of the self-informed equation.
ACE Coaches are equipped to help you explore and consider all of these dimensions. They do more than just guide students toward a single career decision. They are tasked with teaching students how to gain self-knowledge, sort through threads of information, and take actions that will produce more satisfying lives.
Southeastern has lots of exciting undergraduate degree programs to consider. Explore the Focus Areas and programs on our Majors and Minors page. Filter by Focus Area using the “Areas” of Interest” drop-down menu.
Students who want to find out more information about a specific major (what to expect from the curriculum and what type of careers often come with the major) can contact the academic department’s Undergraduate Coordinator for that major. Please click on the button below to get their contact information.
