Professors should set aside time in graduate classes to discuss careers (opinion)
I took 30 to 45 minutes of class time each week for students to complete and then discuss a career discernment exercise. The exercises would not surprise anyone who has read any career guide, but I leaned heavily on one in particular: Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s Designing Your Life. Burnett and Evans emphasize that most college graduates do not enter careers directly related to their majors and that job advertisements are not a reliable route to fulfilling positions. They propose a design approach that is particularly useful to students who are not pursuing vocational degrees. “Life de...
Source: insidehighered.com