Career Wellness

Career Wellness

Career wellness is defined as gaining personal satisfaction and enrichment from one’s work, whether that be academic work while in high school, college or a job after graduation. 

Goals for your Career Wellness

• Increase your awareness of the wide variety of career opportunities available to you

• Challenge societal sex role and other barriers that limit career choices

• Explore your interests, skill, and values and needs and how they relate to career choice

• Choose a career direction that reflects your values, preferences, interests and skills

• Understand the relationship between your career choice and other parts of your life such as with your family, spouse/partner, leisure activities, friends.

• Develop effective job-related skills in assertiveness, confrontation, feedback, time management, active listening, motivation, etc.

• Understand how many people change their career directions many times throughout their lives