Community College Career Center 

      4-C
                 Where you can foresee your future........

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About  4 C    

Our Vision

 
To establish a career center utilizing the latest theory of student development and career development in order to enhance students’ success in establishing and maintaining viable careers, bearing in mind that because of the “open door” policy, their diversity of socio-economic status, ethnicity, age, and academic preparation may limit their access to career information.

Our Mission 

4-C will provide community college students in group and individual counseling with top quality career resources and services which will help them in the process of preparing for success in all aspects of their lives – academic, career and social.   

The Theories on Which We Base What We Do - CIP and LTCC

 4-C will be guided by the integration of two cognitive theories.  Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) is the career theory developed by Peterson, Sampson and Reardon. The theory is based on how individuals use information  to solve career problems and make decisions about careers. The theorists believe that people who have to make these decisions need to learn how to use their cognitive abilities to solve both current and future career problems (Zunker, 2006).  The Learning Theory of Career Counseling (LTCC) was originally proposed by Krumboltz, Mitchell and Gelatt in 1975, but Krumboltz and Mitchell have been refining the theory, with the latest revision done in 1996. The theory holds that people make career choices based on four main factors - genetics, environment, learning and personal qualities.  It proposes that counselors can help people make decisions by providing them opportunities to relate the four factors to their own development and to examine learning experiences that may dispose them to think negatively or positively about career choices, and to replace any faulty learning with new learning based on new information (Zunker, 2006). Sampson, Reardon, Peterson, and Lentz (2004) have indicated that CIP could be effectively integrated with theories such as Krumboltz's LTCC to provide broader benefits to a wider population.

  
Our Goals

 To provide to students:

•  Guidance in acquiring self-knowledge and knowledge of occupations
•  Information on and guidance in making a decision on careers and majors
• Information on and resources for job search and application process
• Opportunities to obtain direct work experience

Our Objectives

 To provided students with information about:

1. Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Occupations

2. Decision-making process

3. Job Search and Job Application

4. Direct Work Experience