Blog 11

This chapter is great for what my group and I are doing for our career workshop.  We are creating a career portfolio that allow students to gain the information that they need for future career success.  There are many things that are going to go into the portfolio that the student will be able to keep after they graduate so that they can look back at it and reference it on how to do things.  This portfolio will also give them information about themselves so they know some of their interests and what they would like to do.  When I looked at the ASCA National Standards, I saw that some of the stuff that my group are doing for the portfolio match some of the requirements in the standards.  It is nice to know that some of the things that we have come up with for our career workshop match to what real professionals in the field have created.

Even though my group and I have created a program for students in High School in a couple weeks, I did not realize how much time is needed to be put into an actual program.  I looked over Brown’s (2012) seven steps in planning a comprehensive program and my mind was blown.  I did not realize that there had to be some much time before one could actually do a program.  I know that things take time to get processed but when looking over the seven steps, it would probably take a whole school year to get something approved before someone could actually do it.  I think this system is great and this should happen, but I do see a problem with the system.  If the top level administrator does not like the idea or the person proposing the idea then nothing will get approved.  I feel like if there was an unreasonable administrator then nothing would happen and the process would take even longer.  I do see the point in going to the administrator to get things approved because if someone does not have a good idea then the administrative staff can turn it down.  It is like the checks and balance system in our government.  Things must get approved by higher ups in order to create change.  This process is very interesting for me to see as I feel that I would be using it a lot in my future career.  I will need to follow these steps in order to get things approved and to go through the actual information to see if the program I create will actually help the population that I am working with. 

Brown, D. (2012). Career information, career counseling, and career development (10^th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Education, Inc.