What if I were to tell you that your career in 10 years might not be what you think it will be now, and it might not be up to you? Do you have a support network and skills to navigate a difficult transition?
This is such a common phenomenon for students. In fact, it is so common that professionals in counseling, career services, student development, and career coaches lean on the work of Nancy Schlossberg to help students and clients dealing with difficult transitions. Schlossberg formalized how we think about transitions in her Transition Theory, which she developed in the 1990s. The theory essentially puts transitions into 3 buckets – planned events, unplanned events, and the nonevent.
To learn more about this, I invite you to listen to our latest episode of Career Connections entitled, “How do you deal with big transitions?
In this episode I have a conversation with Brittany Domino who is a Career Education Coordinator in the Office of Career Development. We discuss the big professional transitions both of us have gone through and the different kinds of ways we support students who are dealing with difficult transitions.
