Dr. Grace Chami-Sather
GS4CI
Guided Search for Career Identity: Arts or Sciences?
The Guided Search for Career Identity (GS4CI) takes a student, with the guidance of a counselor, into the world of career exploration through introspection and thorough reflection of the different aspects of the working personality. Students have minimal time to meditate and withdraw from all activities and pressures around them to focus on their future life choices. The GS4CI is a liberating experience as the individual student focuses on himself/herself and explores the different aspects of his/her projected working personality.
Traits of different domains of the working personality are explored to help students make choices of their tertiary academic program. The GS4CI helps students find pathways both in Arts and Sciences and possibly interdisciplinary. These predetermined paths would help them develop their full potential and excel in academia and consequently find future careers suitable for different components of their career personalities.
The GS4CI is also a tool for change management. In workplaces, where change is needed and in-service individuals are in need of career changes, the GS4CI helps them refocus and rediscover areas of their career personalities in order to pursue alternative careers relevant to their personality traits. The shift from Arts to Sciences and vice versa is then justified.