You want to help discoverers decide which program or career is the best fit for them. After completing the assessment and saving some promising options to their Profile, a discoverer may need your help to make a choice. Here are some ways to do that:
- Have them watch the Career Key Decision Tools video about ACIP Decision Making.
- Offer to help the discoverer apply the ACIP Decision Making Process to their top choices. Try discussing with them a Decision Balance Sheet they’ve completed.
- Identify any obstacles and help the discoverer make plans to overcome them. A common source of indecision is a lack of information. Others may include: finances, childcare and family obligations, and disability.
- Ensure discoverers can easily access information about their top choices, including possible contacts for informational interviewing. If you are in college admissions or student success, that means strategies like connecting potential students with faculty and current students in a program they’re considering.
Indecision
Indecision is not unusual, especially for in the teen years and 20’s, when a person’s personality and abilities are developing. Discoverers’ values, abilities, skills and talents are emerging. And sometimes a person doesn’t know themselves well enough; adult considering a career change may have not have taken the time recently to self-reflect and consider where they are in their lives.
Discoverers with Three or More Top Types are more likely to be undecided, so make sure to offer the advice mentioned earlier in this section. It may take more time for these discoverers to clarify their focus, but their efforts will be worth it.