Career Services and the Interfaith Campus Ministry will work together in a four-part series, starting Feb. 16, to help students’ consider career choices from a spiritual perspective, according to Lindsay Tate, Career Services Specialist.
The workshops will be held in the Library, Room 7L21 at 1 p.m. and one question per series will be the highlight of the event. The first workshop will ask the question, ‘Who am I?’ said Tate.
The workshop will try to answer the question of identity because “you are learning about yourself and you really can’t choose a career until you know about yourself,” she said.
The February 23rd session will ask the question ‘why am I here?’ or the meaning of being, Tate said.
“What we want people to understand is that they can have a vocation, not just a job, so that they can choose whatever career they want and make it a part of their passions.”
The March 2 and March 9th workshops will answer the questions ‘what am I doing with my life?’ and ‘what’s next?’
“This series is for students to find jobs or consider jobs that match their personality, values and skill sets, and then figuring out what type of lifestyle works for them,” Tate said.
While the series is mainly informational, Tate said students should come eager and open to discuss, reflect, engage and participate in group dialogue.
According to Barbara Battin, Interfaith Campus Minister, the purpose of the series is not to be the “expert,” but to help students discover and be the best that they can be.
“Each person is the expert on their own life; we just help them discover that sense of being in charge of their own lives,” she said.
The series will try to address occupation, vocation and avocation in students’ daily lives, Battin said.
“An occupation is someone’s job,” she said. “Vocation is someone’s core or passions and then avocation is what one love’s to do beyond their job that uses their gifts.”
Students are asked to make the commitment to attend all four series if possible, Battin said because this “spiritual journey is one that can be a process and the workshops will build on each other.”
“Students may attend one session and have everything figured out and then there will be other students who need more sessions,” Tate said.
If at the end of the spiritual journey, and more time is needed or if students can’t find time to make the workshops then, students can always seek out the resources of Career Services in Building 10 Room 312, according to Tate.
“There are five elements of student success: physical, emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual,” said Battin. “And so, this is a way for career services to offer something that affects the spiritual dimension of life and the campus ministry can assist with that.”
If interested in attending the workshops, all students must RSVP by Feb. 15 to william.crawford6020@sinclair.edu or call (937) 512-2678 for more information.