Career Counseling, Coaching  and Consulting

What Career Counseling, Coaching, and Consulting is...

• Confidential sessions with a Career Services professional.
• Processes that help you learn more about yourself, the world of work and the demands of the current job market.
• Typically takes 1-8 appointments.
• Appointments last 50-60 minutes.

As you think about your career, it might help to ask yourself these questions:

• How satisfied are you with your current job? What are the main satisfactions and dissatisfactions?
• What are your hopes and fears regarding your current job?
• What can you do to make your current job better? How might you change aspects of your job? How might you change work groups or projects?
• How might you change the meaning of work in your life?
• If you decided to do so, how might you change jobs?
• What are your goals related to work and your career? In the near future? In the long-term future?
• What are your long and short term priorities for work and your career?
• What actions, if any, do you need to take regarding your job and career? Now? In three months? Long term?
• How do your values, interests, skills, and personality traits match your job, career, or goals?
• What lifestyle suits you and does it reflect a meaningful work life?

Career Services can help you contemplate these questions.

What does the Office of Career Services do?

• Conduct individual and group personal counseling sessions to help clarify life/career goals.
• Administer and interpret assessments and inventories to assess abilities, interests, and other factors, and to identify career options.
• Encourage exploratory activities through assignments and planning experiences.
• Utilize career planning systems and occupational information systems to help individuals better understand the world of work.
• Provide opportunities for improving decision-making skills.
• Assist in developing individualized career plans.
• Teach job hunting strategies and skills and assist in the development of resumes.
• Help resolve potential personal conflicts on the job through practice in human relations skills.
• Assist in understanding the integration of work and other life roles.
• Provide support for persons experiencing job stress, job loss, and career transition.

The Career Services Office is not a job-placement service, a staffing agency, an executive recruiter, a resume or cover letter writing service.

The Career Services Office provides the following to Mercer students and alumni:

• Counseling, Coaching, and Consulting
• Career Transition and Management Planning
• Resume and Cover Letter Critiques
• Professional STatement Critique for Graduate School Entrance
• Individual Assessments
• Interview Preparation and Feedback, Mock Interviews
• Strategic Job-Search Preparation
• Personal Marketing Plan, Networking
• Negotiating Skills