Career Counseling

What is Career Counseling?

Career Counseling helps students discover their true potential and interests in various subjects to help them choose the right career. Career counseling also helps students gain awareness about their personal interests, talents and personality styles. At Triquetra, our Career Counselor offers the best possible assistance to students in various ways, in choosing subjects, making career-related decisions and guiding students to the right path for successful further education and subsequent professional career.

The Careers Counselor provides students with all the information they need, including:

• Study skills and planning

• Participation in extra-curricular activities

• IGCSE subject choices

• Work experience opportunities

• Volunteering and summer camp opportunities

• A-Levels subject choices

• Workshops with professionals from a range of fields

• Workshops with university representatives

• University applications to the UK, USA, Cyprus and other European and non-European countries

• Guest speakers are invited at appropriate times to talk to students about different careers.

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There are a number of factors that affect your career development, including your interests, talents, values, personality, background, and circumstances. Career Counseling is a process that helps you understand and understand yourself and the world of work so that you can make decisions about your career, education, and life. ​

Career development is more than just deciding what to major in and what job you want to get when you graduate. It is truly a lifelong process, meaning that you will change throughout your life, situations will change, and you will constantly be forced to make career and life decisions.

The goal of Career Counseling is not only to help you make the decisions you need to make now, but also to provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to make future career and life decisions.

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What Should I Expect?

• Things a Career Cousenlor SHOULD Do 

  • Help you understand who you are and what you want from your education, career, and life.

  • Help you organize, organize, and make sense of your thoughts and feelings, where you can talk about your thoughts, ideas, feelings, and concerns about your career and educational choices.

  • Help you identify factors that influence your career development and evaluate your interests, talents, and values.

  • Help you find resources and sources of career information.

  • Help you determine next steps and develop a plan to achieve your goals.

• Things a Career Counselor SHOULD NOT Do 

  • Tell you what to do or what you should do or what career you should choose.

  • Give advice on course selection and class hours.

Who Needs Career Counseling? 

Because career development is a lifelong process, Career Counseling can be suitable for anyone, including freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and even graduates. The sooner you start making informed decisions about your future, the better prepared you will be! We encourage students at all levels to make an appointment with our Career Counselor.

Here are some examples of concerns that lead students to Career Counseling:

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Researching Career and Important Choices 

• “I have no idea what to do with my life”

• “I don’t know which major to choose”

• “I have narrowed my choices down to a few majors but I keep going back and forth, I don’t know how to further narrow them down.”

• “I know which major I want to study but I have no idea what to do after I graduate.”

• “I know what I want to do, but I’m not sure which is the best field.”

• “I want to know what kind of job opportunities exist in this field I have chosen.”

• “I don’t know what to do because I don’t know the differences between the fields very well.”

Resolving Conflicts

• “I like so many different subjects and that’s why my preferences are changing because I don’t know which one is the best for me!”

• “I don’t like any of my classes and none of them appeal to me.”

• “I want to find a new career where I can build on my existing skills, money and work experience.”

• “I actually wanted to study ......... but it didn’t work out. So, what do I do now?”

• “I actually thought I wanted to be a ......... but I didn’t like it after I started studying this major.”

• “I really like the major I’m studying, but I don’t want to make a career out of it.”

• “I know what kind of work I want to do but I’m worried that I won’t make enough money doing it.”

• “My family wants me to be a ................ but I’m not really sure I want to.”

• “I always planned to be a ................ but could it be possible that I chose this because this is all I knew?”

• “I want to go into a field where there will always be plenty of job opportunities.”

• “I’m looking for a career where I can provide significant financial support for my family.”

• “I am trying to progress my career but I think what I really want is to be a stay-at-home parent.”

• “I always planned to stay in Cyprus but I have to move to do what I want to do.”

• “I can’t find a job so I am thinking of going to graduate school.”