How does the Career Services Network help people make better decisions about careers?

The Network believes that the answer lies in encouraging and facilitating students participation in a learning process whose foundation components are self asessment, i.e. knowing one's skills, potentials, interests, temperament, expectations from work, and personal priorities, and work world assessment, i.e. learning just what career fields are all about through reading, speaking with professionals and gaining experience. Adding to this foundation a sense of how selection processes for internships, permanent employment and further study are actually conducted, and the ability to set and execute realistic strategies to attain results, and students will have a framework for lifelong career management. The cycle resembles this:

Network members use this cycle model to work with students, especially as it reinforces how important the self assessment and work world assessment components are in an exploration and decision-making process. When coupled with the Six Stage Development Model which captures the recommended phases of career development that students should experience while at Syracuse University, what results is a unifying approach to career services that can enrich any Syracuse student's experience and help lay a solid foundation for transitioning to fulfilling careers and lives after Syracuse.