-: So the great thing is that in terms of bachelors degree
you can kind of do anything under the sun.
Um, my personal background was in psychology
just because I knew eventually
I wanted to go into counseling.
I didn't know exactly which realm of counseling
I wanted to go into but I figured that would
be a really good logical step.
But there were several people in my masters program
that had history that had criminal justice
all over the board.
The biggest thing if you want to be a career counselor
is to research the grad programs in higher education
and educational counseling and student affairs.
That's going to ultimately going to be the degree
that's going to get you in that door.
Really you want to get experience within student affairs,
you want to gain experience whether its in, you know,
career education, res ed, the study abroad office,
anything within student affairs is going to help you.
But you definitely want to have
the career center experience, in terms of your internships.
Presentation skills are huge just because
we do a lot of presentations throughout the year,
both in person and online.
Um, a great listener.
Our students come in and they really just need
someone to listen.
Sometimes you're that first person to really hear them out
or to ask them how their day is going?
What they envision for their career and their future?
So great listening skills is a must.
Next steps are definitely going for the masters degree.
You want to get involved with the student affairs degree
or a educational counseling, a higher education.
Those are going to be the next steps.
So researching those programs, finding one that you feel
will best fit you and your background
and the things that you want to learn from that program,
and end up going for those.