Individualized and comprehensive planning to help you achieve your goals.
Working Together
1
Initial Meeting.
In our initial meeting, the goal will be to listen and understand. We will work with you in a comfortable, respectful and collaborative manner that will help you explore your successes and identify the skills, qualities and interests that can guide future decisions and achievements.
2
Information Gathering.
If career testing seems appropriate, we will help you understand why and will arrange for you to complete interest and personality indicators that will provide information to support confident decision-making. We will explain test results in a way that will be clear and practically useful to you.
3
Final Meeting.
The process will culminate in a meeting to plan academic or career goals and strategies for achieving them. We believe that school and career planning for secondary and post-secondary students are family affairs that should include many voices, and that job/career changes affect many people in families in addition to the job changer.
Career Planning
We spend more time working than doing any other activity in our life. Our work will determine how we feel about ourselves, how we develop and progress, with whom we spend much of our time, and our opportunities outside work.
We don’t want to work to live. Rather, our work should be an integral part of what interests us and makes us happy, and should reward the skills and behaviours that define us. We should feel genuine passion for our work. It should bring joy to our lives that we can share with the people who matter to us.
Many people find the process of developing career goals confusing and a bit intimidating. As is so often true, things seem pretty clear and straightforward when you have a guide who’s been there before – thousands of times.
We will work with you to find the interests, strengths, behaviours and values that are the key to making informed and successful educational and career choices. You will find a path tailor-made for you and develop a concrete plan to achieve your goals. Build a strong foundation and the house will stand for many years.
Educational Planning
We are required to establish and achieve learning goals at various points in our lives to support our success. Continuous learning is not an option, but a basic survival strategy. More than 50% of university students continue their studies after a first degree.
Competition for admission to post-secondary education at all levels has increased dramatically. It is essential that we choose schools and programs of study that are consistent with our interests, abilities, performance and goals. Education requires significant commitments of time, energy and financial resources. We need to get it right the first time - our futures depend on it.
Career Solutions has worked closely with thousands of students and their families to help choose the right programs and schools for post-secondary education, and helped thousands of other students develop personal statements and prepare for admission interviews that are the difference between success and failure in applying to medical, law, teacher education, MBA, dental, rehabilitation sciences and many other professional schools.
"[You] pointed out that most people don’t live up to their true potential because they don’t give themselves the chance to explore what they really want out of life. [You] helped me understand that measures of success are individual… I should find what makes me happy and go for it."
— HEATHER, 4TH YEAR UNIVERSITY STUDENT
FAQs
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This is a frequently asked question?
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
This is a frequently asked question?
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.