CAREER PLANNING 

Are you having difficulties deciding your major and/or future career plans? If so, you're not alone!! Each year the counselors at Macomb Community College work with hundreds of students who are choosing or changing programs and career plans. It is estimated that students change their program or major an average of 3-5 times during college.

Because change is now the hallmark of our educational and career life, it is important to know how to manage that change. Learning the career search process is a skill that will be useful to you many times throughout your professional life.

Your career search is a personal journey, one which will take you not on a path straight and sure but rather on a path with exciting twists and turns. These twists and turns will be caused by discovering new information about yourself and new information about jobs, a specific career, or a general career area. While performing all of the tasks necessary to make an appropriate career decision, you will be thinking about all of this new information. As you do this, focus on the process rather than on the choice. For it is in the process that you will find the assurance that the decision you finally reach is the one that is best for you.

It is also in the process that you will find your future security. It has been said that all of us will change careers at least once in our working lifetimes. Some of us will change careers two or more times. If this is true, then it is important that we understand the process of career decision making so that we may, in the future, again use our skills wisely. Don't let the prospect of changing careers in the future disturb you. Everyone is allowed to change their mind, and most career changes are positive, enabling a person to continue to better their career position.

Please contact the Counseling & Academic Advising Services office to schedule a career planning appointment.