College Counseling C*ck-Up: What We Learn From Career Mistakes
Session Description
We learn more from our mistakes than we do from our wins. In this interactive, emotional, vulnerable, bear-it-all session, we’ll hear from five education professionals (and the audience if brave enough) who, at some point in their careers, made what they thought was a career-defining error. For example:
- A job taken for the wrong reasons;
- An email fired off in anger to the wrong person;
- Pushing ahead with a plan only to find the assumptions were all wrong;
- Defying a boss on a matter of principle.
We will be soliciting anonymous stories before the session and picking on people in the audience for their mistakes, and sharing insights as to how those balls-ups led to new opportunities, a new mode of thinking, a shift in character, or simply a plan never to repeat that mistake.
More importantly, we’ll collaboratively find ways to support each other when we think we’ve thrown it all away.
Experience Level
Intermediate
Experienced
Target Audience
Post-Secondary (College & University)
Organization (For-Profit, Non-Profit, CBO)