A Student’s Guide to a Meaningful Career: Choices, Education, and Opportunities

It's never too early to determine your true calling and start working toward your ideal career!

A Student's Guide to a Meaningful Career: Choices, Education, and Opportunities serves as a dynamic workbook that will help you uncover your unique qualities, passions, and strengths, then consider complementary career paths. You will learn how to take advantage of the many opportunities available to you during your academic career, many of which can make you more marketable to future employers.

Filled with thought-provoking readings, activities, and opportunities for personal reflection, this guide will help you make strategic, career-related decisions as a college student so you can realize your career aspirations in the future.

A Student's Guide to a Meaningful Career is part of the Cognella Series on Student Success, a collection of books designed to help students develop the essential life and learning skills needed to support a happy, healthy, and productive higher education experience.

Vickie Ann McCoy is a professor of counselor education at West Chester University. Prior to joining the faculty at West Chester, Dr. McCoy worked at the Institute for Disability Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi and served as the coordinator of counseling and testing services for students with disabilities at Monmouth University. She earned her doctoral degree in counseling psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi.