Career
Career Exploration Services
SCS Career Exploration Services provides several services that an intern could be involved with in this special emphasis. Depending on an intern’s interests, prior training and experience with career counseling and vocational psychology, and current training needs, the Special Emphasis Area in Career Exploration Services could include the following:
Administration of Career Exploration Services
This area will provide the intern with the opportunity to gain experience in the administrative functions of a career exploration program. This could include management of graduate assistants and undergraduate student staff, budgetary decisions, purchasing decisions for the Career Exploration Center, planning a Major Fair, program design, implementation and evaluation, collaboration with the ISU Career Services Council, and coordination with other departments which provide career funding, most notably the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. An intern could also design and implement a special administrative or training project for CES.
Supervision and Training of Career GA’s and/or Career Coaches
The focus of this portion of the area is to gain skill in clinical supervision of career counselors and career coaches. The intern will work with the Director of Career Exploration Services to provide supervision of supervision to Career GA’s who supervise the career coaches, or group supervision and training to the undergraduate career coaches.
Delivery of Career Counseling Services
This portion of the emphasis area will focus on working with clients presenting with career issues. For interns choosing this component of the special emphasis area, a portion of their caseload would be devoted to career counseling, and will be assigned career clients with complicated presentations (e.g., comorbid diagnoses).
Delivery of Career Outreach
Interns choosing this emphasis area will be responsible for presenting outreach programming to the ISU community on a variety of career issues. These outreach presentations might be for classes, clubs, residence halls, or Greek houses. Additionally, groups come to the Career Exploration Center for tours and activities to familiarize them with the career resources at SCS. Interns will also be involved in the ongoing refinement of existing outreach programming, as well as development of new programming.
At a minimum, the intern will meet individually with the area supervisor on a weekly basis to discuss issues related to the Special Emphasis Area.